This six-season TV show on Netflix was definitely one of our favorite pandemic "year 2" binges. Set in a small town in modern Wyoming (in the first decade or so of the 2000s), it features Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), a grizzled and recently widowed old-school Western Sheriff, solving crimes with the help of his small department of younger deputies and various local characters and friends.
His deputies include Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff, who starred as Lt. Starbuck in the more recent Battlestar Galactica series from the SyFy Channel), and several young men with interesting personality traits, histories and quirks.
Walt Longmire also has a best friend (played by the outstanding Lou Diamond Phillips), a Native American who owns the local watering hole, and acts as a social bridge to the local Indian reservations and their people. Then there’s Walt’s young adult daughter Katie, recently graduated from law school, who is a bit at loose ends as to her career and future.
Most episodes tell the story of a particular murder or other crime, but there are also long-running mysteries and unsolved crimes simmering in the background. Full of wonderful who-dun-it stories, a lot of realistic plots about the fraught relations between rural white communities and their Indian neighbors, occasional gunfire and violent action, mild love interests and sex, and a very relatable cast of characters, with strong writing and scripts.
This series is based on the (by now) 24-book set of Longmire mystery novels by Craig Johnson. Highly recommended.
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