I was wondering if anyone watches a netflix series called Longmire? Sherry and me have been binge watching it. Cool show. It is supposed to take place in Wyoming but I read it is filmed mostly around Las Vegas New Mexico.
I read a review that said it was very boring, so I never bothered with it. I have so many shows to watch as it is, I need something to draw me in to a new one.
Boring it is not.
Not sure which reviewer you read but that goes against general critical opinion. From Wiki:
Critical reception
Reception has generally been positive. During season 1, Nancy DeWolf Smith of
The Wall Street Journal called the series "the best of two worlds: a modern crime drama with dry wit and sometimes heart-wrenching emotion that's also got a glorious setting under the big sky of Wyoming." She added: "If it weren't for a few modern conveniences, like cellphones and trucks, it might as well be 1875, so rugged and unspoiled does the scenery look."
[60] Newsday's Verne Gay stated: "
Longmire arrives as silently as a dust devil kicked up by a high wind on the Wyoming plains. With little in the way of fanfare and a lead actor unacquainted with household name status, it must instead rely on a quiet fortitude, much like its namesake." He added: "Unassuming
Longmire doesn't shout 'Love Me!' but instead works its charms subtly, quietly. There's promise here."
[61] Alan Sepinwall of
HitFix said of Season 1, "there's a sense of place to the show that makes it feel unlike every other cop show on television", and he would "like to see the mysteries grow more engaging as the series moves along, but
Longmire at least starts with a good foundation in Walt, his sidekicks, and the wide, open spaces they travel."
[62]
The
San Francisco Chronicle's David Wiegand was critical, writing that the series "has the look and feel of a show cooked up by a bunch of bored TV industry types while they were waiting for the valet to bring their car to them at the
Beverly Hills Chuck E. Cheese." He added: "There's very little drama, and the pilot episode lumbers along like an overfed elk."
[63]
Three years later, after viewing the first three episodes of Season 4, a top critic on the
Roger Ebert site wrote, "It sometimes sounds like faint praise to describe a series like you would a reliable car but
Longmire is just a sturdy show. It is well-constructed all around—confidently made, well-acted, and the writing is much smarter than many shows like it. It hums, each episode these three feeling more well-paced than the one before."
[64] At the same point in the series, Mike Hale of
The New York Times also filed a favorable review, with particular praise for actor
Robert Taylor, described as a "modern day Gary Cooper or Joel McCrea".
[65]
In the aggregate,
Longmire received favorable reviews on
Metacritic and
Rotten Tomatoes. For example, Season 4 received an average rating of 8.5/10 based on 7 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
