With so many exhibits unfold throughout so many streamers, it’s straightforward for choice fatigue to set in earlier than you even press play. However generally, a present comes alongside that’s simply a straightforward watch: romance, drama, an important setting, actors you recognize and love. It’s comfort viewing — the form of sequence you placed on at night time whilst you scroll your telephone and, earlier than you recognize it, you’ve binge-watched all the first season. And, sure, I’m speaking about Netflix’s sizzling new sequence Ransom Canyon. Like many viewers, I rapidly blew by means of all 10 episodes, leaving me questioning… will there be a Ransom Canyon Season 2?
The sequence, which hit Netflix on April 17, didn’t take lengthy to seek out followers. The day after it dropped, it claimed the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Prime 10 TV Exhibits within the U.S. rankings (the place it stays). Primarily based on the book series by bestselling author Jodi Thomas, Ransom Canyon facilities on a small city in Texas Hill Nation the place three ranching households and their legacies intersect. It’s obtained some fairly acquainted faces for the leads, too. Josh Duhamel performs Staten Kirkland, who helms Double Okay Ranch and is grieving some severely catastrophic loss in his private life. Longtime household buddy Quinn O’Grady, performed by Minka Kelly, is the one factor retaining him from slipping into whole darkness.
It’s obtained the sweetness and small-town charm of Virgin River or Sweet Magnolias, with the sweeping surroundings and ranching lore of Yellowstone — however with out Yellowstone’s chew. So, principally, the proper consolation present in your night watch! However will we ever discover out what turns into of the great (and different) folks of Ransom Canyon after the surprising chain of occasions within the last few episodes of Season 1? Right here’s the whole lot we all know concerning the prospect of a sophomore season.
Has Ransom Canyon been renewed?
Not but. Nonetheless, if I had been to mud off my outdated Magic 8 Ball, that inky little triangle would most likely learn “all indicators level to sure.”
Present creator April Blair has advised a number of retailers they’ve preemptively kicked off the brainstorming course of for Season 2. “We’ve already began the writers’ room, regardless that the present hasn’t been picked as much as sequence but for Season 2,” Blair advised TV Insider.
There ought to be loads of materials to encourage the writers, too. The ebook sequence options seven extra novels after Ransom Canyon.
As Blair advised Tudum, it’s her honest hope that followers benefit from the present and crave extra episodes, saying, “My favourite feeling is when a present ends, and also you don’t need it to finish, and also you simply need extra. It makes you’re feeling heat and acquainted, and also you don’t wish to let go. That’s how I hope folks really feel. It’s how I really feel concerning the present watching it.”
When will the present return?
Even as soon as the sequence will get renewed, it’ll be some time earlier than we discover out when the brand new episodes will come to Netflix. Nonetheless, if we do a little bit of Netflix math, we could possibly guesstimate. Filming for Ransom Canyon’s first season came about between February and June 2024, ultimately airing in April 2025. If the present will get the inexperienced mild for renewal and begins filming this summer time, it might conceivably wrap filming by the top of the 12 months, enter post-production, and hit the streamer someday within the fall of 2026.
After all, you understand how this stuff go; any variety of elements might have an effect on the beginning of that timeline, pushing a season 2 launch date into winter 2026 and even early 2027.
What might Season 2 be about?
Spoilers forward! Skip this part in case you haven’t completed Season 1.
OK, let’s briefly recap the place we landed on the finish of Season 1. In the beginning of the present, Duhamel’s Staten was mourning the lack of his spouse Amalah from terminal sickness. Then, tragically, their teenage son Randall dies in a automobile accident solely two years after his mother’s dying. So, Staten is a damaged man, however he’s a person on a mission — he believes another person could have been liable for the crash that killed his son.
At one level, it seems to be as if Staten’s personal nephew, Reed (Andrew Liner), could have been concerned. However the sheriff, Dan Brigman (Philip Winchester), begins to place the items collectively after Reed reveals his connection to the case was merely calling in a favor for native dangerous boy Equipment (Casey W. Johnson). When Equipment’s brother Lucas (Garrett Wareing) insists that Equipment is harmless, Sheriff Dan digs deeper. In any case, his daughter Lauren (Lizzy Greene) is in love with Lucas, so the child’s form of rising on him.
Then comes the dialog that nobody noticed coming: Sheriff Dan goes to talk to his ex-wife Margaret (Sarah Minnich), an alcoholic who solely lately obtained sober. He mentions an affair Margaret had with Equipment, and all of it spills out. She’d been the driving force in Randall’s hit-and-run, and Equipment was simply making an attempt to guard her.
Additionally taking place within the small Texas city? Quinn and Staten lastly confess their emotions for each other and appear to be claiming eternally with one another — till New York comes calling with a proposal for Quinn to pursue her piano profession in a giant method.
“Quinn’s going to go off to New York and are available again,” Blair advised TV Insider. “How is [Staten] going to win her again if he’s nonetheless haunted? I don’t really feel like he might ever actually transfer on in his coronary heart and his thoughts till that thriller [about his son’s death] was settled.”
Now that it’s, although, there’s plenty of reckoning nonetheless left to unravel… between Staten and his brother-in-law, Staten and his dad, Lucas and Lauren, just about each character and one other. “It provides us plenty of runway in different tales as properly,” Blair confirmed.
You’ll most likely additionally see extra of younger Amalah, memorably performed (if just for a brief flashback scene) by Reese Witherspoon’s daughter Ava Phillippe. Gushed Blair, “We’d love for her to come back again. She was wonderful,” mentioned Blair.
And, oh yeah, want I point out the massive bombshell about Yancy (Jack Schumacher) that will get dropped on Ellie (Marianly Tejada) simply earlier than she walks out the door to marry the mysterious city newcomer?!
There’s nonetheless ~loads~ of drama left to probe for the characters of Ransom Canyon.
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