The Western romance series starring Josh Duhamel left fans on a cliff-hanger.
Ransom Canyon must return for season 2. After the Western romance series starring Josh Duhamel and Mika Kelly ended its first season last month, viewers were left dangling from multiple cliff-hangers. It’s quite the risk for a series that flew a little too close to their sun as Netflix’s Yellowstone competitor. But without a second season, fans only have part of the story.
Fortunately, Duhamel confirmed that the writers behind the show are already working on more Ransom Canyon. “I don’t know what they have planned—they’ve been in the writer’s room now for a bit, so we’ll see,” he told Town & Country. “I want it to feel unpredictable, raw, real, and interesting,”
Netflix has yet to officially renew Ransom Canyon for season 2, but the romance series based on Jodi Thomas’s novels currently extends to eight books (and two prequels) in total. That’s a lot of stories to cover should Netflix renew the series.
So far in the Netflix adaptation, rancher Staten Kirkland (Duhamel) fights to keep the town of Ransom Canyon alive, while a threatening company seeks to buy up their land and install a pipeline. He’s also grieving the loss of his wife and his teenage son, who both recently passed away. Now a widower, he struggles to reconnect with a dancehall owner named Quinn (Kelly), who has always loved him. That’s not all. Ransom Canyon is also home to high school romance drama, Kirkland’s love triangle with his brother-in-law, and a mysterious cowboy who swears he has good intentions despite his questionable past.
What Will Happen in Ransom Canyon Season 2?
Showrunner April Blair told Netflix earlier this month that’s she’s incredibly hopeful for a second season. “My favorite feeling is when a show ends, and you don’t want it to end, and you just want more,” she said. “It makes you feel warm and familiar, and you don’t want to let go. That is how I hope people feel. It’s how I feel about the show watching it.”
In another interview with Us Weekly, Blair dove even further into her mindset for season 2’s potential time jump. “We would need to,” she explained. “Quinn needs to go away and save her ranch, and we need to see what the implications are for that punch that Davis goads Staten into doing and what that plot between Davis and Staten’s father, the senator, is like.” Sounds like a lot to cover.
“Westerns are morality tales,” Blair continued, “Every aspect of this show, we always try to come from that foundation of love, lands and legacy, and what that really means.”
