5-sentence review of Longmire, Episode 3
Season 1, Episode 3: “A Damn Shame”
5. One of the most delightful aspects of A&E’s Western police drama “Longmire” is the open hostility to telephones.
4. “A Damn Shame” opens with our man Longmire (Robert Taylor) in a sweat lodge with his buddy Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips) when a phone rings, shattering the serenity of the meditation and warns, “Don’t bring that phone in here.”
3. The phone, of course, comes in as does this week’s mystery — a fire in a barn that kills a man and his horses that turns out predictably to be a complicated crime involving the mob, an insurance scam and a burning of a dead body.
2. “A Damn Shame” picks up considerably from the show’s downbeat second episode and succeeds on the taciturn dialogue offered by Taylor played off his more sarcastic colleagues Vic (Katee Sackhoff) and Branch (Bailey Chase).
1. “Longmire” offers at least one or two laugh-out-loud moments coupled with action and a kind of masculine tenderness that makes a person wish there were more Walt Longmires in this world.
Posted on June 18, 2012, in Popular Culture, Reviews, Television and tagged Bailey chase, katee sackhoff, Longmire, Lou Diamond Phillips, robert Taylor. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
It will be interesting to see what the ratings are for this third episode – the first two have been consistently high/good.
Chad
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It’s a damned entertaining show, though I thought the second episode was a letdown from the first. The third episode got the giddy-up going.