History YMMV / Longmire

* TheWoobie: [[ShellShockedVeteran Tamar Smith]], full stop. A war hero suffering PTSD after being violated by her superior officer, she can barely function in normal society. And when she sees her therapist taking up with a male authority figure [[spoiler: she kidnaps her, so damaged that she cannot distinguish between Walt and the man who abused his power and raped her, and desperately tries to protect her by dragging her to a secluded cabin against her will. Later, after seeing several sensationalist stories about her supposedly being in a lesbian relationship with Donna, and being gently talked down by Walt and Donna, she walks out to her dock and tries to commit suicide rather than be arrested.]]

** Mary Wiseman, soon to become better known as Sylvia Tilley in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', plays Ferg's girlfriend Meg Joyce.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BexTaylorKlaus had a small [[OneSceneWonder but memorable]] role in the third-season episode "Of Children and Travelers", as an inmate of a "troubled teen" facility that the VictimOfTheWeek absconded from.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BexTaylorKlaus had a small role in the third-season episode "Of Children and Travelers", as an inmate of a "troubled teen" facility that the VictimOfTheWeek absconded from.

* MagnificentBastard: "Highway Robbery": [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Jerry Napek]] is a [[EvilCripple paraplegic man]] who seeks revenge on Pete Hoyt for paralyzing him. To accomplish his plans, Napek convinces the judge at Hoyt's parole hearing to release him from prison. Manipulating Hoyt into trusting him, Napek kills him on a highway before pinning his murder on a string of recent highway robberies, while using his [[WoundedGazelleGambit crippled state]] to avoid suspicion from the authorities. Napek then tricks Walt Longmire into driving him back to the scene of the crime for Napek to get rid of any evidence linking him, by telling Walt that he wants to plant a burial cross where Hoyt was killed. When Walt returns to the crime scene and figures out Napek killed Hoyt, Napek [[GracefulLoser lets Walt arrest him]], still content that he killed the man who crippled him.

* HeartwarmingMoments: S6E6 has several relating to the civil suit.

** [[ProfessionalKiller David Ridges]] is Jacob Nighthorse's [[TheDragon personal hitman]] who has killed numerous people, usually by shooting them with poisonous arrows or shoving feathers down their throats. Hired by Barlow Connally to deal with Walt Longmire's wife, Martha, Ridges sends a meth addict to murder her before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing him]] to tie up loose ends. [[FakingTheDead Faking his death]] to avoid capture, Ridges would shoot Barlow's son Branch with a hallucination arrow, [[DrivenToMadness driving Branch into insanity]] and attacking Walt's daughter, Cady, while Ridges would scalp Hector alive when he tries to bring Ridges to justice. Ridges would then try to kill Walt when he discovers that he is actually alive.

** [[ProfessionalKiller David Ridges]] is Jacob Nighthorse's [[TheDragon personal hitman]] who has killed numerous people, usually by shooting them with poisonous arrows or shoving feathers down their throats. Hired by Barlow Connally to deal with Walt Longmire's wife, Martha, Ridges sends a meth addict to murder her before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing him]] to tie up loose ends. [[FakingTheDead Faking his death]] to avoid capture, Ridges would shoot Barlow's son Branch with a hallucination arrow, [[DrivenToMadness driving Branch into insanity]] and attacking Walt's daughter, Cady, while Ridges would scalp Hector alive when he tries to bring Ridges to justice. Ridges would then try to kill Walt when he discovers that he is actually alive.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Jacob Nighthorse offers ground for a great deal of it, including in-universe, especially in later seasons. Is he a basically good person genuinely trying to help his people using unscrupulous and shady methods? A greedy businessman who preys on the Cheyenne Reservation and offers more harm than help to its inhabitants? How sincere are radical politics, and how much are they a hypocritical shield for his ambitions? Is he right to try to invest the money from his projects into infrastructure to help the Rez long-term instead of dolling it out directly to its residents, or is he demonstrating exactly the kind of arrogant CondescendingCompassion that the U. S. Government once did in dealing with the Cheyenne (and to some extent still does)? Even his allies have different opinions on these subjects - and that Walt loathes him and thinks the worst of him in almost every situation doesn't help.

* CompleteMonster: "An Incredibly Beautiful Thing": [[OnlyOneName Leland]] leads a BreedingCult where he has {{brainwashed}} 12 women into joining and having sex with him, impregnating one of them, Evelyn Mace. When Evelyn tries to escape with her baby, Leland murders a store owner that found her before finding and imprisoning Evelyn; Leland would then have one of his followers try to take Evelyn's baby, stabbing an innocent woman in the process. When Leland's cult gets compromised, Leland drugs all of his followers and [[ChainedToARailway binds them onto a railroad]] for a train to run them over, before he [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled attempts to commit suicide to avoid punishment for his atrocities]].

* CompleteMonster: "An Incredibly Beautiful Thing": [[OnlyOneName Leland]] leads a BreedingCult where he has {{brainwashed}} 12 women into joining and having sex with him, impregnating one of them, Evelyn Mace. When Evelyn tries to escape with her baby, Leland murders a store owner that found her before finding and imprisoning Evelyn; Leland would then have one of his followers try to take Evelyn's baby, stabbing an innocent woman in the process. When Leland's cult gets compromised, Leland drugs all of his followers and [[ChainedToARailway binds them onto a railroad]] for a train to run them over, before he attempts to commit suicide to avoid punishment for his atrocities.

* CompleteMonster: "An Incredibly Beautiful Thing": [[OnlyOneName Leland]] leads a BreedingCult where he has brainwashed twelve women into joining and having sex with him, impregnating one of them, Evelyn Mace. When Evelyn tries to escape with her baby, Leland murders a store owner that found her before finding and imprisoning Evelyn; Leland would then have one of his followers try to take Evelyn's baby, stabbing an innocent woman in the process. When Leland's cult gets compromised, Leland drugs all of his followers and binds them onto a railroad for a train to run them over, before he attempts to commit suicide to avoid punishment for his atrocities.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Cheyenne Malachi and the Crow Medicine Woman are played by Graham Greene and Tantoo Cardinal, who are both First Nation Canadians rather than Native Americans. There's a hint of NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent mixed in, because they're doing little to hide their rather thick Native Canadian accents, probably on the assumption that most viewers except Canadians and Natives from both countries can't really tell the difference.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Despite being one of their most popular shows, A&E cancelled it after the third season [[http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-hit-tv-show-got-canceled-its-fans-were-too-old-1410451057 due to being too expensive and having viewers too old for their desired demographic.]] But it was later renewed on Netflix and ran for three more seasons with the sixth slated to be the final one.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Jacob Nighthorse offers ground for a great deal of it, including in-universe, especially in later seasons. Is he a basically good person genuinely trying to help his people using unscrupulous and shady methods? A greedy businessman who preys on the Cheyenne Reservation and offers more harm than help to its inhabitants? How sincere are radical politics, and how much are they a hypocritical shield for his ambitions? Is he right to try to invest the money from his projects into infrastructure to help the Rez long-term, or is he demonstrating exactly the kind of arrogant CondescendingCompassion that the U. S. Government once did in dealing with the Cheyenne, and to some extent still does? Even his allies have different opinions on these subjects - and that Walt loathes him and thinks the worst of him in almost every situation doesn't help.