I just read that A&E has canceled this!It's being shopped to other networks.
NOT Like! Grrrrrrr......
I think the fact that we liked it so much was probably the kiss of death.
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NOT Like! Grrrrrrr......
I think the fact that we liked it so much was probably the kiss of death.
I know! The article I read said it was A&E's highest rated scripted show, brought in the most viewers, for them, even with a dip from season 2 to season3. So of course it makes total sense to axe it.
Hopefully another network will pick it up.
I know! The article I read said it was A&E's highest rated scripted show, brought in the most viewers, for them, even with a dip from season 2 to season3. So of course it makes total sense to axe it.
Hopefully another network will pick it up.
I'm just really annoyed. They ended on a cliffhanger, and yeah, I know these are fictional characters and not real life, but it made us look forward to seeing what happened. Lots of good tension, lots of good character development in the show. It just made sense to keep making it and have people keep liking it.
I liked Saturn (the car company) too. They made cars that were affordable and reliable. Just made sense for us to buy them, and we did. Of course, that meant that the company was doomed. And that's another one that was being shopped around, but no one picked it up, and a good franchise is gone.
I'm just realllllly annoyed.
I read that Longmire has been picked up by Netflix for an additional 10 shows. The same little article also said that the show was dropped not because of numbers (I think it was one of A&E's most popular shows) but because the viewership age demographics were unimpressive to the network execs. I feel like I should file an age discrimination suit.
We don't do Netflix. Now it looks like we better start, out of gratitude if nothing else.
We don't do Netflix. Now it looks like we better start, out of gratitude if nothing else.
We don't have Netflix at the moment either. Did you know there are Longmire books?
I did, Doozie. I knew the show based based off a series of books. Never read them, though. Grandma used to read Tony Hillerman books about crime mysteries on Navajo land. I wondered if those would make a good series too.
My wife and I just finished reading the 10 books plus the short story collection -- they are great, too. A little different from the series (Walt's relationship with Vic is different, for example) but well worth reading.
I was on Youtube, looking at something else, and caught a trailer from Netflix.
Longmire set to start on Netflix September 10! And it looks like all the characters are there, tense as ever.
Dang! Now I gotta figure out Netflix! I'll call the grandkids over.
Longmire set to start on Netflix September 10! And it looks like all the characters are there, tense as ever.
Dang! Now I gotta figure out Netflix! I'll call the grandkids over.
Our Netflix in Ireland doesn't have Longmire. So I'll be on the lookout for a box set.
It's a great show. Walt is one cool cucumber with those deep still waters running within. We started watching it last year during the summer when all the regular shows went away and we got hooked pretty quickly.
We signed up for Netflix. We haven't had a chance yet to look at the new series, but we will. I sense a Longmire weekend marathon sometime in the next couple months.
A&E, your desertion of your highest-rated show is why we're not watching you and why we're new subscribers to Netflix. Your loss, their gain.
A&E, your desertion of your highest-rated show is why we're not watching you and why we're new subscribers to Netflix. Your loss, their gain.
We started it up last night. I wanted to go right to this season. Grandma needed a little backdrop. So we browsed through the Netflix menu, and we didn't remember ever seeing the pilot.
So back to Season 1, Episode 1. Enjoyed it. Then Episode 2. Enjoyed it. Then called it a night. But it looks like we're going to catch up from the very beginning.
I'm thinking this Netflix thing might catch on.
So back to Season 1, Episode 1. Enjoyed it. Then Episode 2. Enjoyed it. Then called it a night. But it looks like we're going to catch up from the very beginning.
I'm thinking this Netflix thing might catch on.
Season 2, Episode 5 (I think). I forgot how good (and sometimes fast and loose, but what crime drama isn't) it is. And we have the pleasure of continuity and getting references to past events that we hadn't caught before, not to mention simply seeing several of the episodes for the first time. Plus I have a certain level of sharp anticipation for the upcoming shows that are the reason we got Netflix in the first place.
It's nice how Netflix tracks with your viewing history and has the next one in the queue ready to go. Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm catching up with this technology thing, okay?
It's nice how Netflix tracks with your viewing history and has the next one in the queue ready to go. Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm catching up with this technology thing, okay?
We're a few episodes into Season 3 now. Character development is really notching up.
A few episodes back, they had an episode titled, "A Good Death is Hard to Find." The show starts off with participants reading out their cowboy poetry, and that sounds awful, and it kinda was, except for the start. Peter Weller started it, narrating his character's own poem
The cowboy has always been a dying breed,
But he takes his dying slowly, perched upon his steed.
The prairie is his prison, his church, his wife.
If you take away his sky, you take away his life.
Yet where does he go when the ranges all have closed?
Does he retire to his bunkhouse, in depressed repose?
No, he climbs back in that saddle, if just to bide his time.
For the cowboy knows a good death is hard to find.
And Weller had a great voice for it. It wasn't Sam Elliott, but it was quite good.
A few episodes back, they had an episode titled, "A Good Death is Hard to Find." The show starts off with participants reading out their cowboy poetry, and that sounds awful, and it kinda was, except for the start. Peter Weller started it, narrating his character's own poem
The cowboy has always been a dying breed,
But he takes his dying slowly, perched upon his steed.
The prairie is his prison, his church, his wife.
If you take away his sky, you take away his life.
Yet where does he go when the ranges all have closed?
Does he retire to his bunkhouse, in depressed repose?
No, he climbs back in that saddle, if just to bide his time.
For the cowboy knows a good death is hard to find.
And Weller had a great voice for it. It wasn't Sam Elliott, but it was quite good.
Okay. We finished through the regular seasons, got to the cliffhanger where A&E dropped the show, and we're now into Episode 5 of the Netlix restart. Cliffhanger resolved. Plot points still remain for resolution.
It's okay. It's got less of the Wyoming feel of the regular episodes and more like a detective show that happens to take place in Wyoming. The stories before were crafted, and now they're more like stitched together. We like the characters and setting and we'll stick to it until the final episode of this Netflix season, but they left some of the show's soul behind when they resurrected it. But thanks to Netflix for resurrecting it anyway.
And now that we're on Netflix, we've got some Leverage shows to get caught up on, and the kids tell us that Daredevil series is not like the movie, i.e., it's worth watching. We'll probably check it out.
It's okay. It's got less of the Wyoming feel of the regular episodes and more like a detective show that happens to take place in Wyoming. The stories before were crafted, and now they're more like stitched together. We like the characters and setting and we'll stick to it until the final episode of this Netflix season, but they left some of the show's soul behind when they resurrected it. But thanks to Netflix for resurrecting it anyway.
And now that we're on Netflix, we've got some Leverage shows to get caught up on, and the kids tell us that Daredevil series is not like the movie, i.e., it's worth watching. We'll probably check it out.
Well, as of last night, we've made it through all the existing episodes.
My enthusiasm had cooled a little bit over the course of the Netflix-produced season. Parts of the Western soul had washed out, and some of the dialogue and actions had taken on the tones of what you might find in any other crime show. Don't get me wrong. I was still liking it. It just had lost a few degrees of specialness.
And then for the final show of the season, whaddya know. They got to the show's roots and put out a cracking good episode that had us in its grip, ended on a cliffhanger, and left us wanting more. Nicely done, people. Can't wait for the next season.
My enthusiasm had cooled a little bit over the course of the Netflix-produced season. Parts of the Western soul had washed out, and some of the dialogue and actions had taken on the tones of what you might find in any other crime show. Don't get me wrong. I was still liking it. It just had lost a few degrees of specialness.
And then for the final show of the season, whaddya know. They got to the show's roots and put out a cracking good episode that had us in its grip, ended on a cliffhanger, and left us wanting more. Nicely done, people. Can't wait for the next season.