YMMV / Longmire

• Adaptation Displacement: The show currently has a higher profile than the series of books that it was based on.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: 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 his radical political views, 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 Condescending Compassion 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.
• Complete Monster:
  • Seasons 2 & 3: David Ridges is Jacob Nighthorse's 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 killing him to tie up loose ends. Faking his death to avoid capture, Ridges would shoot Barlow's son Branch with a hallucination arrow, 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.
  • "An Incredibly Beautiful Thing": Leland leads a Breeding Cult 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 binds them onto a railroad for a train to run them over, before he attempts to commit suicide to avoid punishment for his atrocities.
• Fridge Horror: When Longmire tries to convince Dr. Weston to change the cause of death on Branch's death certificate, the doc says Longmire will need more evidence than dirt in a shotgun shell to convince a court to change it. Considering Longmire is the only one to hear Barlow's confession, and Barlow is now dead, it's likely Branch's cause of death officially remained a suicide. To add insult to injury, the Connallys seem the type to have a family cemetery plot, so it's also likely Barlow is sharing a grave with his murder victim.
• Heartwarming Moments: S 6 E 6 has several relating to the civil suit.
  • First, Nighthorse declares both in word and action how much he trusts Walt, even going so far as to have Sam Poteet ask a question so that Nighthorse can get evidence that shows Barlow is trying to railroad Walt from beyond the grave admitted.
  • And once Barlow’s new attorney is forced to settle for quite literally nothing, Walt and Milgrom share an understated fist bump that shows how much their friendship has come.
• Moral Event Horizon: Malachi was always a Dirty Cop, but he proves once and for all just how evil he is when he murders one of his own men when he tries to back out on killing Hector.
• Nightmare Fuel: David Ridges, especially how he methodically breaks down Branch Connally's sanity.
  • Chance Gilbert. Truly puts the Crazy in Crazy Survivalist.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Mary Wiseman, soon to become better known as Sylvia Tilley in Star Trek: Discovery, plays Ferg's girlfriend Meg Joyce in the last two seasons.
  • Bex Taylor-Klaus had a small but memorable role in the third-season episode "Of Children and Travelers", as an inmate of a "troubled teen" facility that the Victim of the Week absconded from.
• The Woobie: 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 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 being gently talked down by Walt and Donna, she walks out to her dock and tries to commit suicide rather than be arrested, fearing that people will assume that she was in a lesbian relationship with Donna.

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