[ SECRET POST #2765 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2765 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Natalie Dormer]


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03.
[Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)]


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04.
[Interstella 55555]


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[Longmire]


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06.
[Dracula Untold]


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07.
[Transformers Prime]


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08.
[Rik Mayall]


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09.
[Scarlett (Starcraft 2)]


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10.
[Orange is the New Black]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #394.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[evewithanapple]

Crime/mystery? I'm intrigued. Tell me more.

[(Anonymous)]

It's based on a mystery series by Craig Johnson and set in a small town in Wyoming. Very country/western atmosphere, where Walt Longmire is the sheriff. Henry (Lou Diamond Philips) is his best friend who runs the town saloon, and there's a small cast of deputies, one of whom is running against Walt in the next election. So... Walt might lose his job, and he's got dark secrets in his past, namely how his wife died and who exactly was responsible.

All that is sort of the overlying arc, and there's your basic mysteries and murders in each episode. It's not my favorite crime drama, but it's pretty good!

[(Anonymous)]

No nonsense western sheriff who doesn't need any newfangled technology like cell phones, contends with his personal demons, small town politics and a re-election campaign against his well funded deputy, an often antagonistic relationship with the sheriff of the reservation police and a local tribal elder who's the driving force behind the new casino. And on top of that, people get killed a lot.

[franzeska]

It's a modern day Western about a sheriff in a rural town, his deputies, his daughter, his Cheyenne BFF, and reservation politics.

The tv show is a standard procedural with some arc plot involving Walt's wife having been murdered by his enemies. They film in New Mexico, so the scenery is beautiful and a bit different from most shows. There are three (short cable) seasons so far. It's well-made: Good acting, high production values, etc. It's a great watch if you like crime dramas that are semi-episodic.

The books are also full of scenery porn. In them, Walt is much funnier and less of a cliche (he accepts that politics are part of being sheriff, he doesn't randomly refuse to carry a cell phone for no reason, he does not have a manpain arc plot about his dead wife, etc.). The books are mystery novels in basic format, but they seem to be put out by literary fiction people, and the prose and some other elements are a bit litfic-y. There's one book where Walt relives The Inferno while climbing up a mountain in pursuit of a killer (and reading a copy of The Inferno). The show does a bit with social issues, but the books do much more. I have rarely been so impressed by how an old white guy writes women (and indians, I guess, but I'm not really qualified to judge that). There is even more emphasis on reservation politics. These are hands down my favorite current mystery series and possibly my favorite ever. I've been flogging them to everyone I know for months, whether they're big mystery readers or not.

I recommend both. Neither will spoil the other. The main characters mostly overlap. The minor characters mostly don't. Plots are reworked so the red herring in one did it in the other or a B-plot from one of the novels gets condensed into an episode plot.