As many of you know already, Longmire, the enjoyable, decently-rated crime series cancelled by A&E for skewing too old in the demo, was saved and gifted with a Season 4 by Netflix. All 10 new episodes debuted this week (with the first three seasons also available for binging) giving fans much needed relief from the cliffhanger that rocked the end of the Season 3 finale. A "gunshot" mystery that would have gone unanswered had it not been for the revival, leaving Longmire in the TV hell known as "shows that never got an ending."
But it's back. Long live the Longmire. A show that was smart enough, for the most part, to step up and out of its procedural roots more and more each year. Granted, that aspect isn't gone from the show, even in this fourth season on Netflix. Though it is diminished. There are still "case of the week" aspects (though "week" doesn't seem to fit now that you can watch all the episodes in one swoop), but the show figured out a way to better incorporate the side cases into the larger arcs, with only a few outliers here and there.
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But it's back. Long live the Longmire. A show that was smart enough, for the most part, to step up and out of its procedural roots more and more each year. Granted, that aspect isn't gone from the show, even in this fourth season on Netflix. Though it is diminished. There are still "case of the week" aspects (though "week" doesn't seem to fit now that you can watch all the episodes in one swoop), but the show figured out a way to better incorporate the side cases into the larger arcs, with only a few outliers here and there.
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