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| Lawbreakers beware, LONGMIRE (Robert Taylor) is coming for you! Image: A&E Television. |
Things take a decidely darker turn for Wyoming's quirky and unflappable Sheriff Walt Longmire, as personified by Robert Taylor, in this final batch of episodes from the modern western drama's premiere year, developed for television by Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny, airing weekly on TCM from next Sunday. A man savagely murdered by a bear, and an attack on a suburbanite couple linked to the theft of a priceless painting of General Custer kicks things off with brutal intrigue, followed by a missing girl involved in a Waco-esque cult, and the death of an Indian reservation leader with important links to a brand new casino development. But it's the personal life of Longmire that starts to get more attention from here on in: he gets an on/off girlfriend in the form of Lizzie (Katherine LaNasa), but the real truth behind his wife's death hides a deeper, darker secret, which brings his and his daughters already fractured relationship to a head, made even worse by his discovering of her short-lived relationship with the antagonistic young rival for his sheriff-dom, Branch (Bailey Chase), whose well-connected father, Barlow, played by DEADWOOD's excellent baddie Gerald McRaney, will do anything he can to get his son elected whilst also grinding a few axes against our Walt. It looks like our hero's laid back but focused policing abilities will be made more difficult than ever...
Featuring some nice guest appearances from the likes of Peter Weller, Stacy Haiduk and Charles S. Dutton, all in all this is an improving run worth catching when you can, and one which will hopefully lead to even stronger plot and character development for the now-in-filming Season Two.
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