Longmire:
The Complete
Third Season
(2014/Warner Archive Blu-ray + Warner DVD Sets)
Picture: B/B-
Sound: B/C Extras: C Episodes: C
PLEASE
NOTE:
The Longmire
Blu-ray version (versus DVD, being issued everywhere) is now only
available from Warner Bros. through their Warner Archive series and
can be ordered from the link below.
Sheriff
Walt Longmire and his deputies Vic and Branch are in for a storm
murders and mysteries. Walt's best friend Henry was framed for a
murder he didn't commit. As they search for clues, evidence and
witnesses to prove Henry's innocence, they seem to disappear as soon
as they find them. Branch goes off the deep end when he is shot by a
dead man and he is determined to prove this 'White Warrior' is real,
but things start getting complicated when Walt discovers Henry's
murder case may have been a cover up to his own wife's murder's death
in Longmire:
The Complete
Third Season
(2014).
Longmire is a man of
the law, but unfortunately, his extent of the law is as only the
range of his rifle and his truck. He is backed up by his deputies
Vic and Branch, Vic is a former officer with a tendency to becoming
involved with married men, her boss, and co-workers. Branch is a
loose canon, while he IS willing to serve justice and solve the
murders he would do anything to solve the mystery, including torture.
Together, they face corrupt business men, keeping the peace between
the 'Indians' and rogues.
This was a modern
Western, while there is law and order, people often forget to ask who
is the law for, and who does it apply to? Most men of the law only
protect their own 'people', and discriminate those who they feel are
different. The series hinges on the character Walt because he is the
only one who see past race, treat the Indians fairly and couldn't be
bought by the corrupt or the rich like everyone else. And in a land
where law as cheap as paper, sometime you just have to set aside the
laws and take it into your own hands.
After
being minimally impressed with the performance of the show on DVD,
the 1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition presentation of the
episodes on the Warner Archive-exclusive Blu-ray set of the show
really delivers a much richer, more detailed image throughout, even
when the picture goes for monochromatic styles. The
anamorphically-enhanced DVD is not as good, of course, but a tad
better than the previous DVD seasons.
The Warner
Archive-exclusive Blu-ray set also offers the shows sound in lossless
presentations via DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mixes that
show just how much is lost on all three DVD seasons of the show in
lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 versions, sounding weaker than it should this
time around for whatever reason. This is why serious fans should go
out of their way for the Blu-ray set.
The
only extra in both sets are the featurette Longmire:
Ghost in the Storm,
but you can read about the previous two seasons elsewhere om this
site.
Episodes this time
include...
The
White Warrior -
Branch gets shot by the mysterious White Warrior.
Of
Children and Travelers -
Walt discovers a child prostitution ring.
Miss
Cheyenne - Walt
becomes a judge for a beauty contest on the reservation and a
doctor's son is murdered.
In
the Pines -
A group of campers gets all Lord of the flies, and someone is found
dead.
Wanted
Man - Walt
teams up with his old partner to track down his wife's murder
suspects.
Reports
of My Death -
A rich heir is found dead, but is someone after the inheritance?
Population
25 - Vic
and her husband get caught by a group of hillbilly anarchists.
Harvest
-
A man is found dead, but there is a large life insurance on him, but
was it murder?
Counting
Coup -
Branch goes AWOL, and goes on the warpath for the White Warrior.
Ashes
to Ashes - Walt
and Henry discover a missing piece of evidence that could clear
Henry's name.
To
order the Blu-ray version of Longmire
from Warner Archive, go to this link for it and many more great
web-exclusive releases at:
https://www.warnerarchive.com/
-
Ricky Chiang & Nicholas Sheffo