Longmire: Season 1

Description

Longmire has a few things going for it even
before you slip the discs into the player: good source material (Craig
Johnson’s popular Walt Longmire Mystery series), a beautiful setting (the
wide-open spaces of the American West), and a genre that’s inherently pretty
cool (the cowboy detective). These 10 first-season episodes (on two discs,
along with a couple of bonus features) live up to expectations. Australian
actor Robert Taylor is convincing as the title character, the sheriff of
Wyoming’s Absaroka County and the archetypal strong, silent type. Recently
widowed and still in pain, he’s left his wife’s voice on the answering machine
and her ashes in a wooden tea box; exactly what happened to her, and how Walt
plans to tell their daughter (Cassidy Freeman), a local attorney, looms over
the series until the final episode. But while he’s a tough guy (real men don’t
have cell phones, at least in this world), Walt also abides by a strong moral
code–he’ll drive five hours to personally tell a woman that her husband has
been killed, and will doggedly track down a killer whose victim was a
loathsome low-life whom everybody else is glad to see dead. He has some help
from his deputies, including “Vic” Moretti (Katee Sackhoff), a recent arrival
from Philadelphia, and Branch Connally (Bailey Chase), a brash dude who’s got
his eye on the sheriff’s gig, as well as Henry Standing Bear (the veteran Lou
Diamond Phillips), a bar owner who runs interference between the cops and the
Native Americans on the local reservation. But in the end, it’s the
meticulous, observant Walt who solves the case; think of him as Sherlock
Holmes, with a spiritual side. The murders themselves include child abduction,
prostitution rings, drug running, and such–nothing especially original, with
the exception of a luckless fellow whose tormentors tie him up, cover him with
flank steak, and sic a wild bear on him (the results are, well, grisly).
Longmire, which features music by the likes of Steve Earle, Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club, Papa Roach, and the Foo Fighters, deserves a look. –Sam
Graham

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Drama, Westerns, Suspense
• Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, NTSC, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Contributor: Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase, Robert Taylor, Adam Bartley, Craig Johnson, Greer Shephard, Cassidy Freeman, Michael M. Robin, John Coveny, Katee Sackhoff, Hunt Baldwin See more
• Language: English
• Number Of Discs: 2
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, NTSC, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 7 hours and 20 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2013
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase, Cassidy Freeman
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish, Portuguese
• Producers ‏ : ‎ Greer Shephard, Michael M. Robin, Hunt Baldwin, John Coveny