The show started strong, an unconventional police procedural about a small town sheriff solving crime, that turned into a mess in the last two seasons.
All too often we see this happen to good shows in television. They get so mired down in the subplots and personal relationships that they lose track of the show's premise, which is what attracted people to the show to begin with.
In the last few season we saw Walt Longmire turn from an admittedly unconventional but good sheriff, into an overly obsessed lunatic hell bent on blaming everything bad that happens on one man, his nemesis Jacob Nighthorse. Virtually no crimes were solved, as the few that did occur were treated as a subplot, while they concentrated more and more on the characters personal lives and problems.
The final season amounted to nothing more than two or three episodes worth of story stretched out over ten, I found my self fast forwarding through many a scene just to get past the emotional fluff and advance the actual story.
On a side note, the ending has me wanting the show to be picked up again, with different writers of course, as I'd love to see Cady Longmire as the towns new sheriff.
All too often we see this happen to good shows in television. They get so mired down in the subplots and personal relationships that they lose track of the show's premise, which is what attracted people to the show to begin with.
In the last few season we saw Walt Longmire turn from an admittedly unconventional but good sheriff, into an overly obsessed lunatic hell bent on blaming everything bad that happens on one man, his nemesis Jacob Nighthorse. Virtually no crimes were solved, as the few that did occur were treated as a subplot, while they concentrated more and more on the characters personal lives and problems.
The final season amounted to nothing more than two or three episodes worth of story stretched out over ten, I found my self fast forwarding through many a scene just to get past the emotional fluff and advance the actual story.
On a side note, the ending has me wanting the show to be picked up again, with different writers of course, as I'd love to see Cady Longmire as the towns new sheriff.
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