Longmire Season 7 Returns with Robert Taylor and Lou Diamond Phillips Back in Action — the Official Trailer Hints at a New Sheriff, Old Enemies, and a Betrayal That Hits Closer to Home Than Ever Before
The sagebrush whispers secrets in Absaroka County, and after eight long years of silence, they’re finally spilling. Paramount+ has roped in Longmire for Season 7, a limited revival that dusts off the badge for one final showdown, premiering all 10 episodes on June 11, 2026. Robert Taylor’s Walt Longmire, the laconic Wyoming sheriff who’s stared down more demons than a medicine man, saddles up alongside Lou Diamond Phillips’ Henry Standing Bear, the rez’s unflinching conscience, in a trailer dropped October 15 on the streamer’s YouTube channel — a brooding 2:15 of twanging guitars, thunderheads brewing, and a voiceover that chills: “Some betrayals cut deeper than a Cheyenne arrow.” Picking up where Season 6 left Walt in uneasy retirement, the footage teases Cady Longmire (Cassidy Freeman) sworn in as the new sheriff, only for old enemies like a vengeful Jacob Nighthorse (A Martinez) to slither back, dragging Walt into a conspiracy that strikes at the heart: a mole in the department, whispers of his late wife Martha’s killer resurfacing, and a family secret that could shatter the uneasy peace between county lines and tribal lands. Justice rides again, but this time, the trail leads straight to home — and the knife’s already twisted. Fans, polish your boots; Absaroka’s ghosts are restless, and they’re gunning for blood.
Since A&E yanked the plug after three seasons in 2015 — only for Netflix to lasso it back for a triumphant Seasons 4-6 run that ended in 2017 — Longmire has haunted the Western genre like a half-broke mustang. Adapted from Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire Mysteries novels, the series isn’t just a procedural; it’s a soulful elegy to the Big Sky’s brutal beauty, where jurisdictional feuds mask deeper wounds of grief, sovereignty, and the white man’s lingering sins. Season 6’s finale felt like a sunset ride: Walt handing off the reins to daughter Cady, Henry dodging tribal intrigue, and Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff) nursing her sharp-tongued fire amid the frost. But fan devotion never faded — petitions topped a million signatures, annual Longmire Days in Buffalo, Wyoming, packed the saloons, and Reddit’s r/longmire simmered with “Revive it!” manifestos. Netflix’s cold shoulder in January 2025, shuttling all six seasons to Paramount+, cracked the door: Warner Bros. Discovery, flush from Yellowstone‘s ripple effect, greenlit the revival as a swan-song limited series. “Walt deserves his coda,” Johnson wrote on his blog, praising exec producers Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny for mining his untapped novels. Production galloped through New Mexico’s high desert this spring, wrapping under the radar until the trailer’s October dust-up. X lit up like a prairie fire: “Longmire S7 trailer just dropped — new sheriff Cady? Betrayal arc? I’m hollerin’!” tweeted @AbsarokaRanger, while @RezRider45 shared the link: “Taylor & Phillips back? Old enemies rising? June 2026, mark it.”
The trailer opens with Walt, eight years grayer but no less granite-jawed, chopping wood at his remote cabin as Henry’s voice rumbles over the wire: “You hung up the star, kola. Why strap it on now?” Smash cut to Cady pinning her badge in the sheriff’s office, her idealistic fire tempered by the job’s grind — “This county’s bigger than one man,” she vows, only for the frame to shatter with a casino raid gone sideways, flames erupting from the Four Arrows as masked raiders scatter like coyotes. Old enemies? Nighthorse lurks in shadows, his casino empire a powder keg, whispering to a hooded figure: “Longmire’s girl wears the tin now — but blood don’t change.” The betrayal lands like a gut-shot: A leaked case file exposes a department mole feeding intel to a cartel splinter, and the trailer’s close-up on Vic’s face — fury and heartbreak in equal measure — hints it’s someone she trusted, perhaps Ferg’s (Adam Bartley) greenhorn deputy or, gut-wrenchingly, a ghost from Branch Connally’s (Bailey Chase) tainted legacy. Walt steps from retirement like Lazarus, .45 drawn in the snow: “This ain’t about the badge anymore. It’s family.” The montage races: Henry’s bar the Red Pony under siege, Cady drawing down on her old man in a jurisdictional standoff, and a silver locket — Martha’s — glinting in the dirt, tied to a fresh grave. Fade on Walt’s steely gaze: “Betrayal’s a long shadow… time to step into it.” On X, the frenzy builds: “Trailer teases Cady as sheriff facing Nighthorse’s revenge? That home betrayal? S7’s gonna wreck me,” posted @LongmireLegacy.
Taylor’s Walt is the revival’s lodestar, his rumpled flannel and haunted squint more lived-in than ever. “Slipping back into Walt’s skin after a decade? It’s like reuniting with a brother you buried too soon,” Taylor told Collider, teasing an arc where retirement’s hollow peace crumbles under the weight of unfinished vendettas. Phillips’ Henry returns as the moral compass, his bar a nexus of rez whispers and wry wisdom, facing a tribal election rigged by Nighthorse’s old machine. “Henry’s always been the heart — now he’s the target,” Phillips shared in a Variety sit-down, hinting at a personal stake in the betrayal: a long-lost relative entangled in the cartel web. Freeman’s Cady blooms as the new sheriff, her attorney poise hardening into command, clashing with Walt in father-daughter thunderheads that echo their Season 6 thaw. Sackhoff’s Vic crackles with Philly brass, her will-they-won’t-they simmer with Walt boiling over in a trailer barroom brawl where she snarls, “You think you’re the only one who lost something?” Bartley’s Ferg steps up as loyal second, but the mole tease casts suspicion his way — or is it the fresh-faced deputy (newcomer Zahn McClarnon, channeling Dark Winds grit as a BIA liaison with divided loyalties?). Martinez’s Nighthorse slinks through as the snake in the sage, reformed on the surface but venomous beneath. Chase reprises Branch in flashbacks, his suicide’s shadow fueling the conspiracy. And Tantoo Cardinal joins as a steely tribal elder whose alliance flips the board, her “old enemies” grudge against Walt rooted in a ’70s land grab.
The 10-episode lasso tightens around Absaroka’s fractures. A year post-finale, Walt’s “retired” to fly-fishing and ghosts until a casino heist drops Martha’s locket at his door — etched with rez coordinates to a cold case: her murder tied to Nighthorse’s early scams. Cady’s sheriff tenure hits turbulence with federal encroachments, her raid on the Four Arrows exposing the mole’s leaks to a militia peddling fentanyl across tribal lines. The betrayal? It festers personal: Episode 3 teases Vic discovering Ferg’s partner (or worse, Henry’s nephew) sold out a witness, leading to a ambush that scars the team. Old enemies converge — Nighthorse brokers a shaky truce, only to double-cross for casino expansion, pulling in BIA corruption and Walt’s Vietnam flashbacks. Mid-season, a reveal links the cartel to Branch’s shooter, forcing Cady to question her promotion’s strings. The finale? A blizzard-swept showdown at Crowheart Butte, where justice demands Walt choose: the badge he passed, or the vengeance he craves. Baldwin and Coveny, with Johnson’s notes, thread timely veins — opioid epidemics, land rights, the fraying special relationship between sheriffs and sovereignty — into taut teleplays that honor the novels’ dust-choked poetry.
Cinematographer Erik Bork returns to paint Wyoming’s wounds in 4K splendor: goldenrod fields bleeding into gunmetal storms, the rez’s casino neon clashing with canyon cathedrals. The trailer’s score, a brooding ballad from The Lumineers’ Jeremy Fraites, thrums like a distant herd. Filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico (standing in for the fictional Absaroka), the production leaned on Northern Cheyenne consultants for authenticity, amplifying Indigenous arcs after Season 6’s reckonings. Early buzz? Deadline dubs it “a resurrection raw as moonshine,” with Taylor’s “weathered thunder” Emmy-bound. On X, @WyomingWraith raved, “S7 trailer — new sheriff drama, Nighthorse back, betrayal from within? Paramount delivered,” linking the vid. Reddit’s threads gallop: “The home betrayal tease? If it’s family-tied, I’m done — in the best way.”
Beneath the gun smoke, Season 7’s a meditation on legacy’s long shadow. Walt’s not chasing badges; he’s hunting peace, learning betrayal’s sting from those closest — a mirror to our own divides. As Henry tells him in the trailer, “The rez don’t forget, Walt. Neither does home.” In a corral of endless Westerns, this limited gallop chooses closure over cash-grab, justice not as triumph, but as the hard miles walked. Paramount+ faithful, etch June 11, 2026, in stone; stream Seasons 1-6 now to scent the trail. Longmire’s back in action, but Absaroka’s ghosts? They’re family — and they’re armed.
