I’ve been watching since day one. I don’t normally like westerns, but this show has gotten really really good. This season has been the most suspenseful of all - it keeps getting better and better.
Anyone??
I started watching the first epp and didn’t finish it for some reason – timing most likely, but not because I didn’t like it. This is one of the shows I should circle back on.
Maybe I’ll start again then. Last season kinda dragged for me.
It’s on Netflix. I’ve only seen the first two seasons because I kept forgetting when the third was on.
We gave up after the first season, then in a moment of boredom, got through a few season 2 eps. We’re still following it, but damn is it a weird show structurally. It has the loose-jointed story line of old-school westerns and the shadings of an ensemble show in which the characters reshape themselves according to the week’s script.
I’m glad they toned Bohannon down from his fierce, single-minded murderousness of the first season, but he’s become a jello man, acting, reacting and behaving differently in almost every episode. The Swede is a fascinating character but he’s been completely remolded at least three times now - not the least of which is going from a lank black comb-over to a wrath o’God afro and beard to a blonde/gray crewcut.
Leaving Elam’s story unfinished, then bringing him back, then just as abruptly killing him off… huh. Must have owed the actor two more paychecks or something.
I dunno. We’ll watch out the season, but it’s nothing I’d call Emmy bait.
Even as a het male, though, I can say Anson Mount is a damned good-looking actor. 
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I’m your huckleberry. I haven’t missed an episode. It’s a great show.
Things that bother me about the current season is that locking up about a dozen men brought railroad construction to a halt, and we’re repeatedly shown Cheyenne as devoid of human population. Only once in a while, such as in this week’s ending confrontation, do other workers and a general population appear. Budget etc., yeah, but the UP had thousands of workers, not 15. Locking up a few shouldn’t have made the slightest difference to the construction.
I do wonder what the LDS think of the portrayal of Brigham Young. I think they’re comfortable with him swinging a mean right hook, but being a conniving SOB who lets an acknowledged murderer live for trivial organization reasons? Huh.
Have new seasons started back up? I’ve watched it all the way through the whatever season last concluded, but if there are new episodes on now, I’ve missed them.
Mostly I watch it because my wife really likes it, but it’s a fairly decent show - and this is coming from a guy who normally hates anything Western.
I was a little disappointed by the way they reincarnated the Swede as a Mormon bishop. It made parts of the story arc pretty darn predictable, and I think would have been more interesting if the religious leader had been a new character for us to get to know.
I see the changes in Bohannon that others have talked about, but it doesn’t seem so problematic to me. Formerly, he defined himself by a family and farm. When he lost the family, he defined himself by revenge. Now, he has no real definition for himself and so he’s just going with the flow as situations present themselves.
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I’m not watching for Emmy consideration - this is show is just really good entertainment. Good acting, good plot, and the occasional shoot out. What’s not to love? 
Season 4 started August 2. They are now 10 episodes into the 13 episodes scheduled for this season. All the previous seasons were only 10 episodes. For some reason, the last three episodes don’t start airing until November 8.
Spoilers below! I’ll box something from the most recent episode, but not any others.
I’ve been watching. I forget why, but last season lost my interest and I only decided to finish it prior to this season started.
I agree about the way Bohannon shifts from one episode to the next. I think it would be better if it wasn’t so sudden or seemingly against his nature. They’re kind of playing up the gunfighter/soldier that wants to disavow violence, but it just doesn’t seem particularly believable to me in this situation.
My other complaint is the entirely predictable suspense, like the Swede (I’m Norwegian) showing up later after Bohannon failed to hang him and the blonde guy, Sidney, this season getting away from the shoot out in the railroad cars.
I’m glad Sidney got killed in the most recent episode. I was worried he was going to keep reappearing to prolong that plot since he escaped being killed by Bohannon a couple times already.
Still, I’ve mostly liked the show. The writing is decent for the most part, characters mostly do things consistent with how they’ve previously behaved, and there isn’t much like it on TV. The amount of character development, plot movement, and action is a pretty good balance, particularly if you compare the plot movement to a ponderously slow show like the Walking Dead.
I watched the first season, but there were some many WFT! moments*, I stopped.
- they track him down by figuring the bullet came from his rather rare type of handgun. Not possible then. And what Amateur Barbarian & theR said.
I enjoy this show! Just started watching this season…
I still watch it, but my interest is waning. The plot seems to be veering off aimlessly and I’m not sure where it’s headed anymore. And… after you’ve seen Bohannon knocked down and crawl back about 5 times it gets rather tiresome.
I’m not sure Sidney Snow is dead. We will have to wait for the next episode to see if he is dead or badly wounded. And good on Ruth for gunning him down in cold blood. She really is daddy’s girl.
Yeah, that was a great scene! And I’m betting that Sidney isn’t dead.
Sidney is too good a character and the actor chews scenery far too well to kill off so early. With The Norwegian relegated to a minor role, we need more scene chewing and the troubled looks of Bohannan and the crying of Ruth just aren’t cutting it for overall effect.
He’s credited for the next episode, but that could be as a corpse.
(I actually shouted, “Ruth!” when the first shot rang out. Good on 'er.)
Have watched since the beginning. Enjoyed watching the newspaper publisher getting her ashes hauled as an experiment!
I don’t think Sidney’s dead either - I distinctly recall a scene during the previews for it’s return on November 9th, where Sidney’s lying on a table and there’s someone operating on him - trying to remove the bullet from his gut no doubt.
Sidney is the new Swede - he can’t die just yet.
…and yes, the scene with Ruth was super cool - I cheered.