Longmire -- yea or nay?

Good, solid show. Try it. Robert Taylor is a great no-frills actor, very old-school in his simplicity. I wouldn't mind waking up in his cabin.

The novels are good too.

A big sky thumbs up for Longmire, OP.

Bailey Chase is my husband-to-be.

Everything without gay characters is categorically no.

R5 = bigot

[quote]Robert Taylor is a great no-frills actor

He's still alive? I think he owes me alimony.

Is it anything like "Justified?"

Lou Diamond Phillips can invite me into his tee pee anytime.

OP here four months later. After delaying forever, I've watched two eps so far. Does it get better? It seems very teevee to me. I'm spoiled with some of the better cable dramas and don't think I can go back.

I mean my question honestly though -- does it get better? Maybe the show just started slow?

R5, Wyoming has no homosexuals.

Why does the Lou Diamond Phillips character never use contractions? He always says stuff like "I do not know" and "I would like to" -- are contractions against some Indian law?

Ok I watched a few more eps and it's growing on me. All the deaths remind me of Wire in the Blood though, the British crime drama set in Yorkshire. While watching that I began to wonder if there'd be anyone left alive in all of Bradfield after a few series, and now I'm wondering the same thing about Wyoming.

I finished the last available episode on Netflix over the Memorial Day Weekend.

I love this show and I hate this show.

It's bizarrely schizophrenic -- on the one hand, it has a loose-limbed unselfconsciousness about it, often leaves loose ends untied (not right away anyway) and is acpable of giving us very realistic portrayals of relationships, the sort of thing you'd expect to see on a truly great show like The Wire or The Sopranos.

But at the same time the stories are so wildly implausible that I can't believe they're part of the show I just described. In terms of the background story arc, this show went off the rails almost immediately, and stayed there.

I had a hope that, when I worked my way up to the post-A&E seasons, the show would restrain the storytelling a bit more, but nope. As soon as the big multi-season story arc was concluded, they concocted another far fetched tale. The bare bones of Season 4's arc are not farfetched at all -- the way unscrupulous companies use the jurisdictional quirks of the Indian reservations to victimize native women -- but the storytelling itself is so OTT it left me with mouth agape. And that cliffhanger at the end of Season 4, my God!

So I can't wait to see Season 5 ... and I am DREADING Season 5.

A friend of mine from college named Cassidy Freeman is on this show (I think she plays Longmire's daughter). I've never seen it, but might consider picking it up after what I've read here.

She plays the sheriff's daughter. She's good R15.

Longmire was very good this season. Last year, lost interest and didn't make it through the whole season. If you have netflix, you should give it a try.

Finally started binge-watching this on the advice of a friend -- I'm in the middle of season 5, so winding down to the end. I preferred "Justified," but this show is pretty good too. Beautiful cinematography and scenery. I gather that New Mexico is standing in for Wyoming.

And it has improved since it moved from A&E to Netflix.

I started watching it. The show has several really tasty dudes guest-starring in it. Whoever the casting agent is must have a good eye for pretty men or be one of us. I stopped watching after the first series but I will def go back and continue shortly.