Longmire's Final Season

Over the past week, I've reviewed the first three episodes of Longmire's final season that is currently streaming on Netflix. Just click this link and you can follow along with me.

I May Get Some Flak...

I may get some flak for this one but its an issue that has been needling me for a while:
Book vs. Television: What TV's Sheriff Longmire Is Doing Wrong article is live at LitReactor.

Rumors and Impending Action

Hope all bloggers had a superior weekend!

Monday finds me typing away at new articles for Criminal Element where I moonlight as a freelance writer. The latest post is my take on the Westworld debut. Did you watch? I thought it was a bit familiar but overall has my curiosity piqued with what Anthony Hopkins has planned for his unusual amusement park. So I'll be reviewing that for the next ten weeks and, in addition, finish Longmire season five recaps by Friday and every Tuesday whittle my way through The Dark Tower. Tomorrow we come to the conclusion of The Gunslinger and I hope you have your library cards ready to pick up the second book in the series, The Drawing of the Three.

On the publishing front, I'm looking to release Garnett Elliott's Two Trick Pony very soon. This will be the eighth book in The Drifter Detective series and it may just be where the road comes to an end for Jack Laramie, grandson of Cash Laramie. I'm not saying for sure but there are rumors, pilgrims.

That's it for me on the work front—never slow down, never grow old.

Chrysalis

I'm up to reviewing the third episode of Longmire's season 5. I'm hoping you click over and deposit your two cents when you get a chance. Here's a sample:

Longmire selects some of the best music to punctuate scenes that require no dialogue. Kaleo's mournful “I Can't Go On Without You” plays as Walt (Robert Taylor) gives Dr. Donna Monaghan (Ally Walker) a phone call. The camera’s eye segues from bullet holes that have ventilated Walt's house to Donna reading a paper, “The Psychological Effects of Violence.” She notes, with apprehension, the “Cowboy” is calling but doesn't pick up. In just a little over a minute of screen time, we see the strain of the relationship played out before the opening credits. Kudos to director Adam Bluming for haunting, poignant filmmaking.

My full recap of Longmire 5:03: "Chrysalis" can be found here.    

Link 2 Links

I'm talking The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, chapter 4 and Longmire 5:02: "One Good Memory" at Criminal Element. Love to have you join me for one or both discussions and tomorrow I hope to get around to your individual blogs. Crazy week of publishing, reviews, and finishing my latest manuscript. But, I'm not complaining, love these jobs.

Longmire Season 5

Longmire season 5 landed on Netflix. Ten new episodes that I will be binging and reviewing over the next week.

Programming Events

Hope everyone in Blogger Land is doing well and had a top weekend. 

I've been getting over a nasty (is there any other kind) cold but seem to be exiting the sick tunnel. A few things on my immediate horizon: to finish rereading Stephen King's The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, don my cowboy hat for the new season of Longmire dropping in four days on Netflix, and patiently refrain from spilling the excitement that is Westworld—I will also be reviewing Longmire and Westworld for Criminal Element. So I hope you will join me for some of those jaunts and bring some Theraflu and a bottle of Jack just in case.

Binging on Longmire

I've been binging on Longmire and here's the first result. Your thoughts on the season premiere and the following episodes are always welcomed.

Longmire 4.02: “War Eagle."
Longmire 4.03: “High Noon”
Longmire 4.04: “Four Arrows”
Longmire 4.05: “Help Wanted”
Longmire 4:06: "The Calling Back"
Longmire 4.07: “Highway Robbery”

Chance To Win Wait for Signs (12 Longmire Stories) by Craig Johnson!

Leave a comment on First in Series: The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson for a chance to win an advanced reader's copy of Mr. Johnson's newest book Wait for Signs. 

Ashes to Ashes

Longmire: 3.10 Season Finale “Ashes to Ashes” reviewed by Edward A. Grainger.

Harvest

“Harvest” picks up where we left off with Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) receiving care for a flesh wound and Vic looking genuinely drained from her hellish experience as a captive.

When Walt and Vic hugged in the hospital, my wife said to me, “I can see them as a couple,” and I had to finally agree. The relationship happens in Craig Johnson's series of novels from which the show originates, and it seems like it’s time on the TV series. But, like water in a dam rising to the occasion, we are kept waiting again, because Vic’s husband Sean (Michael Mosley) has given her an ultimatum to quit her job in two weeks or they’re done. When Branch Connally (Bailey Chase) broke into Vic’s house in last week's episode, I was thinking, you’re going to be in a world of hurt when she finds out. Sure enough, in this episode, Vic (Katee Sackhoff) tears Branch a new one and lays everything wide open.

My full review, of the latest Longmire episode, can be found at Criminal Element.

Population 25

Vic in some serious trouble in “Population 25." My review at Criminal Element.

Reports Of My Death Can’t Be Trusted

"Reports of My Death" Can’t Be Trusted.

Wanted Man

“If you do the job right, Walt, by the time you put down your sheriff’s badge, you’re a wanted man.” —Lucian Connally.

Longmire: 3.05 review by Edward A. Grainger.

In the Pines

I liked a lot about last night's Longmire episode, "In the Pines," but took slight exception at the heart of the standalone episode. My review here.

Miss Cheyenne

My review of yesterday's Longmire episode, Miss Cheyenne, at Criminal Element.

“Of Children and Travelers”

My thoughts on last night's Longmire episode.

Longmire 3.01: Season Premiere “The White Warrior”

“The White Warrior” opens with Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) thundering across the dusty landscape in his SUV with Deputy Branch Connally’s bleeding body in the back en route to the nearest medical service: a clinic on the reservation. He skids to a stop in front of an attendant sitting outside. When the man hurries around and notices Branch’s injuries, he asks, “What did you do to him?” and in a flashback, we see Longmire sewing up the gunshot wound with fishing line to slow the bleeding.

Read the rest of my review at Criminal Element.

Longmire Season 3 Opener

Walt Longmire and his posse returns tonight on A&E and I will be reviewing (under my pen name Edward A. Grainger) the new season for Criminal Element. If you are already a fan I hope you join me each week for a recap and if you are new to this top rated program I hope you jump onboard.

Modern Cowboys

I'm at Criminal Element with Kickin’ Ass Like It’s 1880: Ten Modern Cowboys. As always, I sure could use your support over there with some comments.