TV Shows Like Longmire
If you like Longmire, here are 12 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Longmire works because Walt Longmire himself is a specific kind of character: grieving but functional, stubborn but fair, and rooted in a landscape that feels like a third main character. The Wyoming setting is not decorative. It shapes the pace of the show, the silences between people, and the kind of justice that gets dispensed. The crimes are local and human, and the drama comes from a man trying to do right by a community while barely keeping himself together. That combination of procedural mystery, wide-open Western atmosphere, and quietly aching character work is what fans of the show tend to chase next.
The best shows like Longmire
1. Yellowstone
Longmire fans who liked the friction between Walt's office and the reservation will find a much louder version of that conflict at the center of Yellowstone, where the Dutton family's massive Montana ranch is under pressure from all sides. The show is bigger and more operatic than Longmire, but the Western landscape and the sense that violence is always close to the surface should feel immediately familiar. John Dutton has the same immovable quality as Walt, even if his methods are considerably less bound by the law.
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2. 1923
If Yellowstone clicked for you, 1923 is worth sticking with, but it also works on its own terms for Longmire fans because it takes the same Montana setting and roots it in a specific, difficult historical moment. The hardships facing ranching families in the 1920s, from drought to the Depression to violent range disputes, give it the kind of grim weight that Longmire carried through its best seasons. The story has patience for landscape and consequence in a way that fans of the source show will recognize.
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3. Justified
Justified shares Longmire's core setup of a lawman who is calm under pressure, a little out of step with the world around him, and very good at his job in ways that keep creating personal complications. The Elmore Leonard source material gives it sharp, funny dialogue alongside genuine menace, and Raylan Givens is a character worth spending a lot of time with. If you liked watching Walt navigate a community where everyone has a history with everyone else, Kentucky's Harlan County will feel like familiar territory.
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4. Deadwood
Deadwood is set more than a century before Longmire, but both shows are fundamentally about a lawman trying to hold a community together against forces that would rather have no law at all. The South Dakota mining camp in Deadwood is raw and violent, and the show does not smooth any of that over, but it has the same respect for place and the same interest in what it actually costs someone to try to be decent in a hard environment. Fans of Longmire who want to go deeper into the Western side of the show will find a lot to admire here.
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5. Sheriff Country
Sheriff Country is the most structurally similar show on this list: a sheriff in a small town working criminal cases while dealing with personal and family complications that keep bleeding into the job. Mickey Fox carries that same sense of someone who chose to stay in a difficult place and now has to live with everything that comes with it. If the procedural and character-driven side of Longmire was what kept you watching, this one is an easy next step.
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What that fan usually wants is not just another cop show. They want geography that matters, characters with weight, and moral questions that do not get resolved too cleanly. They want to feel like a place is real. The best of these recommendations deliver that. Some lean harder into the Western side of Longmire's identity, others into the crime and character drama side, but all of them share that sense that the world being depicted has its own logic and its own costs.
Yellowstone and its prequel 1923 are the most obvious next stop for anyone who loved the Montana-adjacent, ranch-and-reservation tensions that run through Longmire. Yellowstone goes bigger and louder than Longmire, trading the sheriff's badge for a cattle baron's iron grip, but the land-and-power dynamics feel familiar. 1923 takes that same world back a century and grounds it in genuinely harsh historical conditions. Justified pulls in a different direction, swapping the West for Kentucky and the sheriff's office for a U.S. Marshal's badge, but the Elmore Leonard DNA gives it the same mix of dry wit, moral complexity and escalating stakes. Deadwood is the oldest show here and in some ways the most uncompromising: it is loud, profane, and brutal, but underneath all of that is a story about law being built from scratch in a place that does not want it, which is not far from what Walt Longmire deals with every week. Sheriff Country is the most direct structural match, built around a small-town sheriff working cases while managing a complicated personal life.
Not every show here is a perfect fit in tone. Yellowstone can tip into soap opera in ways Longmire never did, and Deadwood demands patience with its dense, heightened dialogue. But all five give you the feeling that the law is a fragile, personal thing, and that the people enforcing it are carrying something heavy.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Longmire?
- Yellowstone is the most popular show similar to Longmire in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Longmire still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to Longmire listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Longmire?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.