Posted on 07/03/2017 10:49:37 PM PDT by Gene Eric
I’m watching the second season. Now, I’m hooked. It’s too bad it’s coming to an end.
Anyone read the books? Are they good??
Bout Freakin’ time!
Yes, but at the end of Season 3, Branch was shot by Barlow at their skeet shooting range next to the river.
Right; I remember. The cliff-hanger to hold over to Season 4.
I’ve heard gossip that there might be a spin-off with Cady as the main character.
Do not mourn too much the termination of Longmire after six seasons. That is a success in the TV business and long enough to earn its main actors years of residuals. With a few exceptions, series TV shows have a lifespan of five to seven years, after which they exhaust their premise and lose audience interest and ratings. Even with a top notch staff of writers and free-lancers, it is hard to come up with seven years -- 154 episodes -- of a TV show without repeating old plots and dialog.
In addition to lingering plot lines, my major gripe against Longmire is that, like many detective shows these days, it developed a coziness with its major characters and had politically correct comments and plot points. The best detective and crime shows though are consistently based on sharp-edged plots that have the protagonist isolated and struggling with bad people, indifferent good people, and unreliable friends and allies. Get away from that too much and you end up with something that conveys no more sense of menace and human rottenness than an cartoon featuring the Scoobie gang.
I was surprised that there was an equal balance, with whites and Indians both having some good and some bad folk. In a typical series in this PC world, the Indians would’ve been the victims about 100% of the time.
True, but, for me at least, Henry Standing Bear was a little too virtuous and good a friend to Walt to be fully credible. Detective novelist Raymond Chandler, the inadequately credited godfather of TV detective shows, would reject such a character as not realistic and as contrary to the isolation of the detective that is an essential part of his heroism.
My favorite character is Mathias. Not sure why.
Mathias is superficially unappealing but at the core is a principled man.
I’m really going to miss it. The lead cast is wonderful, the supporting cast is stellar and I love the themes of loyalty, honor, and duty that weave through every episode.
He’s a hunk and he follows his code with honor and dignity. What’s not to like? I enjoy every scene he”s in.
So it’s not just me? He also has a regular role in the TV series, “The Son” — at least the first season.
Lol, it’s not just you. And the best thing about this last season is that he has a much bigger role.
I know I watched the final season. I don’t want it to be the final season. Sad as I really enjoyed Longmire.
Me neither. Sad it’s over.
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