Posted on 08/28/2014 5:47:31 PM PDT by dirtboy
Longmire, A&E Network’s most-watched original drama series of all time, will be ending its run on the cable network after three seasons. In a surprising move, the network has opted not to renew the series for a fourth season. I hear Warner Horizon, the studio behind Longmire, will be shopping it immediately. “We would like to thank the phenomenal cast, crew and producers of Longmire, along with our partners at Warner Horizon, for their tireless work on three seasons of quality dramatic storytelling,” A&E said in a statement. “We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved together.”
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Yeah, that also is one of three shows I will watch as they come out, along with 24.
And the following is giving A&E hell on Facebook.
Bingo. After watching the first couple episodes of season three, I just gave up on it.
"Longmire" fell apart much like that sheriff vs. gangster show "Vegas" did. Both quickly became unwatchable.
“The third season script writing was terrible...”
Absolutely atrocious. We only watched it this last season to pick it apart. It’s extremely fortunate that this activity didn’t turn into a drinking game because I’m afraid myself and Mrs. Catnipman might have ended up with liver cirrhosis before the season was (mercifully) over.
I’m not surprised it was cancelled; the ratings just had to have totally plummeted as the show had degenerated into complete and utter nonsense on every level conceivable.
And another one bites the dust. I really like Longmire and am sad that it was cancelled. Dang, the stupid networks keep crap on and cancel anything else worth watching. They apparently, do not have their finger on the pulse of the American viewer.
One of the “very few” shows I liked.
That stinks. That was a really good show. I just made it through season 2 on Netflix and was looking forward to season 3. Hopefully it gets picked up somewhere else.
The level of absolute hatred of guns was there from the first five minutes of the program. Also, whoever is advising them knows nothing of guns.
The Sheriff asks his deputy to find out "who has what guns registered." WHO REGISTERS THEIR GUNS IN WYOMING? Maybe the hippies in Laramie do, for all I know. But I spent 20 years in Oklahoma, another Western state, and there is NO registration of guns there.
Next the whole plotline followed a single type of rifle, the Sharps. As Sackhoff's character says, "In a world where you can buy an AK-47 over the Internet", why use a Sharps? Why indeed? Yeah, they could have used an "assault rifle." Hollywood gun-hating bilge.
The author of the books, and/or the Hollywood scriptwriters have got this all confused. The sporting Sharps was chambered in .50-70, but "ballistics tests" (HA!) determined that the killer shot a .45-70 Sharps. You see, "they found a slug" in a sheep pasture. Right.
But it had to be a Sharps. According to the show, no other rifle in the history of guns was chambered in .45-70 Govt. Nevermind that many classic sporting rifles were chambered in .45-70. Nevermind the Navy still uses .45-70. Also nevermind that it's called a "falling block" rifle not a "drop block" rifle as in the script, and there's no inherent requirement that it take exactly 5 seconds to load as in the dramatic final scene.
Oh, yes, the dramatic final scene in which THE GUN DEALER is revealed as the murderer! Of course! It used to be the butler that always did it, but in Hollywood, the murderer now can only be THE GUN DEALER, that merchant of death and mayhem!
Either tell me this gets better, or I am not wasting my money on any more episodes.
The followers were old ,white males. They don’t count.
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