I am trying not to binge-watch, but have seen three episodes since last night. Good stuff. Really. They The bad guys are badder. Vic is more damaged. Walt is more... Walt. And the countryside - NM subbing for Wyoming. Gads. Gorgeous. How does Brotoro get any work done?

What season are you watching? I must have seen 3 seasons - maybe more - before A&E dropped it, but I can't recall.

This is maybe my favorite show! This is the fourth season.

All of the episodes are on Netflix. The first 3 from A&E and the 4th is a binge watch made by Netflix.

Does it end the series, or will there be a 5th season?

Longmire wasn't cancelled by A&E because no one watched it. It was cancelled because they didn't like that the viewers skewed older.

That's why Matlock got cancelled too, back in the day. It was a top 10 show, and they canned it because old people liked it (and no one else watched). Old people don't spend money, apparently. They haven't met me.

What's wrong with older viewers, as long as they are enough of them, I mean? Don't they buy enough stuff? Are they less susceptible to advertisements?

They want young males. Who drink a lot of beer, buy cars and deodorant and guy toys.

They should get advertisers who sell things their current audience wants. It just seems so ass backwards to reject a sizable audience because you wanted to sell something to younger people or a different demographic. Why - was A&E already heavily invested in beer, deodorant, and guy toy companies?

It is all demographics. Which is why those goofy "reality" shows are dominating. And wrestling. And talent contests. I don't watch any of that and they don't care - they don't want me anyway.

The 18-whatever demo has the loosest hold on their disposable income. The world belongs to the man-child.

And to steal someone's criticism of Elementary. It's a good show with a murder problem, as in I think it would be a better show with a better variety of crimes. I can only remember one episode where it wasn't a murder.

Still, really enjoy it.

Lots of shows inevitably deal with murder - whole organizations set up just to deal with murder.

But yeah, Sherlock often deals with other mysteries.

Nothing wrong with murder as a plot but he's a small town sheriff and he's dealing with a murder rate higher than Murder She Wrote

Early on they establish him as the cowboy Sherlock and I just wish they mixed things up a little more if only to take advantage of the comic range of some of their cast.

Cowboy Sherlock? He NEVER seemed that clever to me - hardly THAT observant at all. But I'd buy cowboy detective - or just reasonably intelligent sheriff.

Not sure what the population there is, but it really is unfortunate when the writers ignore probability and statistical likelihoods like that.

I think it's the first episode which has the Sherlock shout-out. They don't go too far with it, but he's the kind of guy who looks at a crime scene and see stuff no one else sees until he points it out.

As for the high murder rate, I don't mind it if the show locks itself into a particular formula. No use complaining about L&O: SVU only doing sex crimes or NCIS only do Navy related cases, Murder She Wrote will of course feature a murder, but a show like Longmire gives itself a license to explore any kind of crime and could mix up the tone a lot more than it currently does. I would love to see Walt in the middle of a case where he can barely contain himself because it's so absurd.

They had to cast an Australian, because there's no American actor who could convincingly play a small-town western sheriff.

That's why they cast Ah-nuld in The Last Stand, too.

What a great accent he had, too.

I didn't know the Sherlock thing, but every modern detective seems to be Sherlock somehow.

Binged Season Four... another Sherlock shout-out in the bus crash story

Anywho, enjoyed it quite a bit. Glad they finally put the murder of Walt's wife behind them; that's been long over-due. Really wish there was more Mathias, but at least Walt is finally giving him something close to the respect he deserves... Walt's treatment of him the first season or two never sat right with me as Walt kept invading Indian territory and expected Mathias to just take it. Also like that they finally seem to be stopping with having Nighthorse as the Red Herring for most of their big cases; it's never Nighthorse or lupus... not to say Nighthorse isn't shady as shit, but he seems to be trying to stay on the right side of the law as much as possible.