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Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
'Steamy' Netflix Western series leaves fans so gripped they 'binge every episode in one day' - as they rave 'it's Yellowstone meets Virgin River'
A 'steamy' Netflix series has left fans so gripped they 'binged every episode in one day' and some raved 'it's Yellowstone meets Virgin River'. New Western drama, Ranson Canyon, hit the streaming platform last week and dives into the story of three ranching families in Texas Hill Country. 'Passions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love,' the synopsis reads. Based on Jodi Thomas' novels, the show was created by April Blair and stars Josh Duhamel, Minka Kelly and Eoin Macken, amongst others. Ranson Canyon has received raving reviews from some watchers and many took to Instagram to share their praise. Actor Josh posted a photo of the show and some fans commented: 'Watched all 10 episodes today. Couldn't stop. Great show!!!' New Western drama, Ranson Canyon, hit the streaming platform last week and dives into the story of three ranching families in Texas Hill Country. 'Please tell me there is a season 2???? Stanton is my new Rip.' 'Dude!!! Your show is awesome!!!!!!' 'Wonderful show! Only on 1st episode. Can't wait to watch them all!!!' 'Binge watched it all in one day. Loved it!' 'Absolutely love this show!! Binged all 10 episodes already!! Definitely need a SZN 2.' According to Metro, someone else posted on Instagram: 'On the last episode and it's such a damn good show!!! its giving Yellowstone vibes for sure.' Staten Kirkland, played by Duhamel, has to deal with the passing of his wife and managing his ranch. Speaking about his character, Duhamel told Tadum: '[Staten's] dealt with a lot of grief, although I'm not sure he really dealt with the grief very well. 'When he comes back to the world of living, as he says in the show, he realizes that there are a lot of unexplored opportunities and relationships that he probably never even saw before the loss happened.' While creator and producer Blair described how the show 'leans into a more bygone era Western' style. She said: 'I wanted to do something that felt big and escapist and had the romance, but also had the drama, and the mystery wrapped up in one package.'
New York Times
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In ‘Ransom Canyon,' Minka Kelly Enjoys the Ride
There were times when Minka Kelly assumed that her acting career was over. Kelly, 44, had never planned on becoming an actress. Before breaking out in her mid-20s as the sassy cheerleader Lyla Garrity in the football weeper 'Friday Night Lights,' she worked as a scrub nurse. A decade ago, during a slow period, she graduated from culinary school. So later, when fallow months turned into fallow years, she would tell herself this was fine. If Hollywood had finished with her, she would survive it. But recently, having published a sensitive, unsparing memoir, 'Tell Me Everything,' a New York Times best seller, Kelly found herself again in demand. An offer came for 'Ransom Canyon,' a Netflix neo-western series with romance elements. Kelly would fill the cowboy boots of Quinn O'Grady, a concert pianist who runs a dance hall in the Texas Hill Country. Quinn's enthusiasms include soap making, love triangles, looking wistful in prairie skirts. Kelly didn't think a romantic lead would be available to a woman in her 40s. But it was. And audiences have been enthusiastic: 'Ransom Canyon,' based on the novel by Jodi Thomas, has been one of Netflix's most popular shows since it debuted last week. And there is also more to come. After Kelly finished shooting 'Ransom Canyon' in June, she flew to Paris to film her first romantic comedy, 'Champagne Problems.' That movie will debut in November, also on Netflix. 'I've gotten to a place in my life where I am my best, and now the best thing has happened,' she said. This was on a morning in mid-April, and Kelly was seated at the counter of Wick and Pour, a candle-making studio in Manhattan's West Village. (Why candle making? Quinn makes soap. This felt close enough.) Diligently, Kelly poured a lavender and sage candle, then added a spoonful of glitter. 'I love using my hands,' she said. Kelly is, as the creator of 'Ranson Canyon,' April Blair, said in a recent interview, 'one of the most beautiful women in the business, if not the planet.' But that morning, dressed down in a white sweatshirt, she wore it casually. Soft-voiced and peaceable, she radiates a preternatural warmth and sympathy, a gratitude journal in human form. That gratitude is hard-won. Kelly endured a turbulent childhood, which she details in 'Tell Me Everything.' Maybe it's a coincidence that roles like these are coming to her only now that she has reconciled herself to her past. Or, she sometimes thinks, this could be the universe rewarding her. 'Maybe I've suffered my whole life so that now in this part of my life I can enjoy it,' Kelly said. In her first decade in the business, Kelly rarely discussed that past. 'I thought it made me bad or unlovable or different or damaged,' she said. The daughter of a single mother who often supported herself as an exotic dancer, Kelly had a childhood that was itinerant and often unstable. As she recounts in her memoir, she watched her mother struggle with drugs and alcohol, and they were both physically abused by her mother's long-term partner. By her senior year in high school, Kelly was living alone in an Albuquerque apartment that she had paid for partly by performing in a peep show. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to be near her birth father, a guitarist who had once played with Aerosmith. She worked a series of low-wage jobs, and then with the support of a family friend who had married a sex doll magnate, she put herself through nursing school. She had also been scouted as a model, so for a while she spent her mornings in operating rooms, her afternoons at castings. Those castings landed her a commercial agent. Commercials brought her bit parts. Bit parts got her an audition for 'Friday Night Lights.' She was cast as Lyla, a rich girl with an easy, pony-tailed beauty. Back then she had little formal training. Before emotional scenes, she would put headphones on and dig deep into her own pain. This was good for the camera, and in some ways it was good for her, too. Here, she could peel away her self-protection. 'The peeling is what's addicting to me,' she said of acting. 'The exposure and the rawness and the vulnerability.' Zach Gilford was a co-star in those days. He could see how much of herself Kelly poured into her character. 'She's just so honest,' Gilford said. 'I don't think I've ever seen her lie. I don't think she knows how.' Slowly, role by role, Kelly developed a mellower process — imagining herself into a character's circumstances rather than drawing on her own life. She had an arc on 'Parenthood' and a short stint on 'Euphoria.' She shot two episodes of 'Drunk History.' The actress Leighton Meester, who has known Kelly since their days doing commercials and later starred with her in 'The Roommate,' has watched this evolution. 'She's blossomed and grown and become even more wise, but she was always incredibly kind,' Meester said. 'She has always had this sparkly light.' 'Ransom Canyon,' which arrives nearly two decades after 'Friday Night Lights,' was a measure of that personal and artistic growth. Blair, the creator, had been a 'Friday Night Lights' fan. When she saw Kelly's name on a list of potential Quinns, she thought, 'That's the person,' she said. 'I want grown-up Lyla Garrity.' Kelly immediately saw the parallels. 'Like, this is Lyla 20, years later,' she said. She wanted that, too. The show would shoot in Albuquerque, where she had spent her teenage years, but now she would return there as an adult, a professional. And if the place unearthed difficult memories, that difficulty would power Quinn, who is, as Kelly put it, a woman still coming into her own power. Which is a nice way of saying that Quinn is pretty bad with men. 'The beauty of where I am now is that I can acknowledge and recognize where she is and have compassion for it, and so not judge her for not walking away from something that's obviously unhealthy and confusing and painful,' Kelly said. Josh Duhamel, who stars in 'Ransom Canyon' as the rancher Staten Kirkland, a great candidate for therapy and one of the men Quinn shouldn't date, appreciated how Kelly could elevate even soapy scenes. 'She really did the work and stripped it away and made it feel real and raw,' he said. For the role, Kelly spent up to eight hours each day practicing piano, and she learned how to adjust her riding to a Western saddle. ('They are such majestic spiritual creatures,' Kelly, who has participated in equine therapy, said of the show's horses.) She also spent time with the young women in the cast, offering to rehearse with them, helping them advocate for themselves ahead of difficult scenes. 'She's a mama bear,' Blair sad. 'She brings everyone in.' This care for others comes naturally to her. Extending that same grace to herself is something Kelly works at. When asked why she thought a rom-com hadn't come her way before 'Champagne Problems,' she suggested she had always wanted to do one but hadn't deserved it. 'I wouldn't have been able to really have enough to offer before,' she said. Then she gently corrected herself. 'No,' she added. 'That's still my unhealed parts talking.' Kelly has always had plenty to offer: sass, vulnerability, that sparkly light. She used to think that wasn't sufficient, or that acting wasn't really acting unless she tortured herself. Now, having starred in the top show on Netflix, she is trying to know better. She decorated her candle with golden calendula and blue cornflowers, then sat back to admire it. 'It's OK to be joyful,' she said.
Newsweek
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
How to Watch Ransom Canyon – Where You Can Stream the Hot New Series
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors A hot new series hit Netflix last week and shot to the streaming service's top ten list: Ransom Canyon. The series comes from April Blair, whose previous credits include You and the Gossip Girl reboot, so it's no wonder Ransom Canyon is gaining steady popularity across TikTok and climbing the Netflix charts. Based on Jodi Thomas' book series, the romance-fueled western follows three ranching families amidst the sweeping Texan landscapes across ten episodes. Critics may have marked the series rotten in first reviews, but audiences are eating it up, with episodes rated 7.5/10 all the way up to 9/10 on IMDb, and an audience score of 73% on Rotten Tomatoes. (L to R) Josh Duhamel as Staten and Minka Kelly as Quinn in Episode 109 of Ransom Canyon. (L to R) Josh Duhamel as Staten and Minka Kelly as Quinn in Episode 109 of Ransom Canyon. ANNA KOORIS/Netflix With word of mouth spreading fast, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about, so we've got a guide on how to watch Ransom Canyon below, including what happens in Ransom Canyon and Ranson Canyon episode synopses. Ransom Canyon Release Date Ransom Canyon was released on Netflix on April 17, 2025. All ten episodes of Ransom Canyon were released on the streaming service at once and are available to stream now. Ransom Canyon – How to Watch Ransom Canyon is available to watch now on Netflix. The series first hit Netflix on April 17, 2025. To watch Ransom Canyon, you will need a Netflix subscription. A standard subscription with ads is $7.99 per month, and a standard no-ads subscription starts at $17.99 per month. Who Stars in Ransom Canyon? Josh Duhamel, Minka Kelly, Eoin Macken, Lizzy Greene, Garrett Wareing, Marianly Tejada, Jack Schumacher, Andrew Liner, and James Brolin star alongside Philip Winchester, Justin Johnson Cortez, Casey W. Johnson, Niko Guardado, Tatanka Means, and Jennifer Ens. What Is Ransom Canyon About? Netflix has released a full synopsis for its new show, Ransom Canyon. It reads: Welcome to Ransom Canyon, where love, loss, and loyalty collide beneath the crimson mesas of Texas Hill Country. With three ranching family dynasties locked in a contest for control of the land, their lives and legacies are threatened by outside forces intent on destroying their way of life. At the center of it all is stoic rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel), who is healing from heartbreaking loss and on a quest for vengeance. Staten's only glimmer of hope rests in the eyes and heart of Quinn O'Grady (Minka Kelly), longtime family friend and owner of the local dancehall. But as the battle to save Ransom wages on, a mysterious cowboy drifts into town, dredging up secrets from the past. Vise tightening, Staten fights to protect the land he calls home, and the only love that can pull him back from the demons that haunt him. Ransom Canyon Episode Synopses We have the full breakdown of what happens in each Ransom Canyon episode, as per IMDb: Episode One: Reeling from loss, Staten fails to notice Quinn's growing feelings -- while Davis sees an opening. The arrival of a mysterious drifter shakes up the town. Episode Two: Staten follows a key lead in his investigation. Quinn makes a deal with troubling implications. Lucas struggles to keep his brother in line. Episode Three: Conflict ignites at the dance hall's grand reopening. A familiar face from Yancy's past makes an unwelcome appearance. Episode Four: A feud with his father gives Reid a chance to bond with Staten - even if it means working side-by-side with Lucas. Davis attempts to win over Quinn. Episode Five: Davis' growing bond with Quinn is threatened by his ex-wife, who has a devious plan to take down Staten and Cap. Yancy takes a risk at the rodeo. Episode Six: Paula Jo sows discord between Staten and Quinn. Ellie digs into Yancy's past. Lucas and Lauren make a shocking discovery. Episode Seven: Staten and Quinn find themselves in close quarters when a tornado strikes. A confession sparks new revelations in the investigation into Randall's death. Episode Eight: Despite a break in the case, Dan still has doubts. Ellie pressures Yancy to come clean to Cap. Lauren prepares for her big cheer tryout. Episode Nine: Torn between her passions, Quinn must make a choice. Staten and Davis' tenuous alliance is threatened. Cap comes face-to-face with his past regrets. Episode Ten: Tensions between Staten and Davis come to a head. Ellie uncovers a bombshell. Dan must decide whether to reveal the truth - at enormous cost. Will There Be a Ransom Canyon Season 2? Ransom Canyon has not yet been renewed for season two. However, in an interview with TVInsider, Ransom Canyon's showrunner, April Blair, revealed, "We've already started the writers' room, even though the show hasn't been picked up to series yet for Season two." Ransom Canyon Season 2 Release Date There is no confirmed release date for Ransom Caynon season two. Season two of Ransom Canyon has not yet been green-lit.
