Longmire is a good series, with well-drawn characters and mostly capable story-telling, but it never quite found its full audience or a secure niche among the conventions of the detective genre. Some episodes were police procedurals, others were dominated by hard-boiled or mystic aspects or were personality and relationship driven, while other episodes referred to larger story arcs and contemporary Western themes. This could obscure the central narrative of an episode and leave casual viewers not so much in suspense as off-balance and confused as to what was going on.
I think you are correct but I found the textured complicated stories compelling.
So tired of series where I can see the ending in my head after ten minutes.
When I watched the ending scenes of Season 1, Episode 1 years ago, I thought it was so much like some of the endings of “The Closer”. Then I saw the credits. Both Closer and Longmire were by Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny.
The attorney characters in both shows, and the legal situations, were similarly interesting, too.