What I’m Watching: Longmire

Longmire: Season 2, Episode 4 “The Road to Hell” (B+)

The cases that Walt and his deputies are encountering this season are quite spectacular, in that they involve an awful lot of people and a large ring of suspicious people. It wasn’t much of a surprise that Watts was taking his job a bit literally and trying to carry out justice, and it wasn’t as if everyone else involved was completely clean and guilt-free. There were a few recognizable faces in this episode from past TV series, including Daniel Buran, who played werewolf Marcus in season five of “True Blood,” as Bobby Dunwood, Greg Ellis, who was Michael Amador in season three of “24,” as Jordan Helms, and Hillary Tuck, who was on “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” as the grieving wife who was not happy to hear Vic’s news about her husband. Vic appears to have much bigger problems, of course, considering that she couldn’t figure out who sent her flowers and now quickly finds her past catching up with her. Her relationship with her husband has never been solid, and his nonchalant reaction to Vic’s question about the flowers and his offer of breakfast in bed felt somewhat out of place. The final moments of the episode spell certain trouble for Vic, and that’s not even taking into account the way things were left with Walt, Henry, and Cady, as well as the upcoming election which is sure to shake things up. This is guaranteed to be an exciting and eventful season aside from all of the cases themselves.