With so many reveals unfold throughout so many streamers, it’s straightforward for choice fatigue to set in earlier than you even press play. However typically, a present comes alongside that’s simply a simple watch: romance, drama, a fantastic setting, actors you realize and love. It’s comfort viewing — the type of sequence you placed on at night time when you scroll your telephone and, earlier than you realize 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 shortly blew by way 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 Reveals 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 acquired some fairly acquainted faces for the leads, too. Josh Duhamel performs Staten Kirkland, who helms Double Okay Ranch and is grieving some critically catastrophic loss in his private life. Longtime household pal Quinn O’Grady, performed by Minka Kelly, is the one factor preserving him from slipping into complete darkness.
It’s acquired 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 on your night watch! However will we ever discover out what turns into of the nice (and different) folks of Ransom Canyon after the stunning chain of occasions within the closing few episodes of Season 1? Right here’s every little thing we all know concerning the prospect of a sophomore season.
Has Ransom Canyon been renewed?
Not but. Nonetheless, if I have been to mud off my previous Magic 8 Ball, that inky little triangle would in all probability learn “all indicators level to sure.”
Present creator April Blair has instructed a number of retailers they’ve preemptively kicked off the brainstorming course of for Season 2. “We’ve already began the writers’ room, although the present hasn’t been picked as much as sequence but for Season 2,” Blair instructed TV Insider.
There needs to be loads of materials to encourage the writers, too. The e book sequence options seven extra novels after Ransom Canyon.
As Blair instructed 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 are 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 might be able to 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 may conceivably wrap filming by the top of the yr, enter post-production, and hit the streamer someday within the fall of 2026.
In fact, you know the way these items go; any variety of components may have an effect on the beginning of that timeline, pushing a season 2 launch date into winter 2026 and even early 2027.
What may Season 2 be about?
Spoilers forward! Skip this part when you haven’t completed Season 1.
OK, let’s briefly recap the place we landed on the finish of Season 1. Firstly 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 automotive accident solely two years after his mother’s loss of life. So, Staten is a damaged man, however he’s a person on a mission — he believes another person might have been answerable for the crash that killed his son.
At one level, it seems to be as if Staten’s personal nephew, Reed (Andrew Liner), might 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 unhealthy boy Equipment (Casey W. Johnson). When Equipment’s brother Lucas (Garrett Wareing) insists that Equipment is harmless, Sheriff Dan digs deeper. In spite of everything, his daughter Lauren (Lizzy Greene) is in love with Lucas, so the child’s type 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 not too long ago acquired 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 ceaselessly with one another — till New York comes calling with a suggestion 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 instructed TV Insider. “How is [Staten] going to win her again if he’s nonetheless haunted? I don’t really feel like he may 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 loads 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 offers us loads of runway in different tales as nicely,” Blair confirmed.
You’ll in all probability 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 might love for her to come back again. She was superb,” stated Blair.
And, oh yeah, want I point out the large 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 ~lots~ of drama left to probe for the characters of Ransom Canyon.
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