This is a full-on spoiler discussion for those that have watched all 10 episodes of Longmire: Season 4. For our spoiler-free review of the season, click here.
Okay, so here I can bring up all the juicy details left out of the official Longmire: Season 4 review, which I tried to keep mostly spoiler-free.
Which means I can type freely about how Branch was killed off. Those who followed Longmire news could surely piece this together, as Bailey Chase was not returning to the show (while Gerald McRaney was), but that didn't mean that the discovery of his body, in that faked suicide scene, didn't hit me like a bag of bricks. And so the first three episodes played out with a touch of dramatic irony that we don't usually get to experience on Longmire. We knew what had happened. And not only did we know who killed Branch, we knew who was behind the murder of Walt's wife. And it wasn't Jacob Nighthorse in either circumstance. So Walt spent a few episodes being obsessed with the wrong guy.
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Okay, so here I can bring up all the juicy details left out of the official Longmire: Season 4 review, which I tried to keep mostly spoiler-free.
Which means I can type freely about how Branch was killed off. Those who followed Longmire news could surely piece this together, as Bailey Chase was not returning to the show (while Gerald McRaney was), but that didn't mean that the discovery of his body, in that faked suicide scene, didn't hit me like a bag of bricks. And so the first three episodes played out with a touch of dramatic irony that we don't usually get to experience on Longmire. We knew what had happened. And not only did we know who killed Branch, we knew who was behind the murder of Walt's wife. And it wasn't Jacob Nighthorse in either circumstance. So Walt spent a few episodes being obsessed with the wrong guy.
Continue reading…
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