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Longmire recap: “Carcasses”

It’s not often you can link Latin and turducken into a murder mystery, but this week’s episode of Longmire — the splendidly titled “Carcasses” — does so within the first few minutes. OK, so now we know why we love this show; let’s find out what happened. It starts out as so many Longmire hours do, with a quiet, serene drive along the roads of Absaroka County, Wyo., when all of a sudden death intervenes. This time it’s a lady named Holly who earns what is apparently a good living collecting animal carcasses off the road and putting them in […]

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Longmire Season 2 premiere: Date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

Longmire Season 2 premiere: “Unquiet Mind” Monday, May 27 A&E, 10pm ET A nine-month hiatus has done nothing to calm the crime problems in Absaroka County, Wyo. When we pick up the Longmire Season 2 premiere, Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) and his deputy Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff) are transporting a federal prisoner to his rendezvous with some FBI agents that will escort him to his next stop. The prisoner is actually a notorious serial killer who preyed on Native Americans and sold their body parts on the black market. Well, since a hassle-free prisoner transport wouldn’t make for good drama — […]

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“Longmire” author Craig Johnson reflects on 1st season of the A&E hit based on his books

As the first season of Longmire comes to a close this Sunday at 10pm on A&E, Craig Johnson has watched — along with an average of more than 4 million other viewers per week — the characters he created in a series of mystery novels come to life. While he was initially leery about turning over the reins to his rugged, Wyoming-set stories to Hollywood, he says he couldn’t be more pleased with how this adaptation has turned out. I had a lively chat with Johnson as Longmire was about to premiere and he spoke about the unlikely way his […]

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“Longmire” debut shoots straight to top of A&E record books

With 4.1 million viewers watching its premiere Sunday night, A&E’s Longmire became cable’s top new scripted drama of the year, and the most watched original series in the network’s history. Based on the popular book series by Craig Johnson, Longmire follows the exploits of Walt Longmire, a middle-aged sheriff solving crimes — and trying to find purpose in his life — in Wyoming’s sparsely populated Absaroka County. Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase and Cassidy Freeman costar. Read our feature on Longmire here, and check back for an exclusive interview we did with author Craig Johnson.

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“Longmire” takes A&E viewers on a rough ride into the Western

There’s an old sheriff in town, and his name is Walt Longmire. Veteran character actor Robert Taylor — maybe you’d recognize him better wearing the suit and sunglasses he did in The Matrix; then again, maybe not — takes the lead in an absorbing adaptation of Craig Johnson’s acclaimed mystery series. Set on the rugged, unforgiving Wyoming frontier, Longmire follows the middle-aged, recently widowed sheriff of Absaroka County as he seeks to work through his pain and revitalize his life and career. Helping him along are a big-city transplant deputy, Vic (Katee Sackhoff), and his longtime friend Henry Standing Bear […]