Netflix’s Answer to Yellowstone Canceled After Two Seasons
Tom Murray
Fri, September 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM GMT+2
Ransom Canyon, the neo-Western romance series billed as Netflix’s answer to Taylor Sheridan’s hit Yellowstone, has been canceled after two seasons.
Based on Jodi Thomas’s book series, the drama starred Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly and followed three ranching dynasties as they battled over land and power in a tight-knit Texas community. Now, just a few months after the show’s second season aired on July 23, the streamer has decided not to move forward with a third, Deadline first reported. The Independent has approached Netflix for comment.
Ransom Canyon’s second season underperformed with viewers, drawing 4.1 million views in its first week—a 43 percent drop from the 7.2 million views recorded during the show’s opening week in 2025. It remained in the streamer’s top 10 for just three weeks, down from Season One’s four weeks.
In addition to Duhamel and Kelly, the cast also included Lizzy Greene, Garrett Wareing, Marianly Tejada, Jack Schumacher, Casey W. Johnson, Philip Winchester, and Justin Johnson Cortez.
Described as a mix between Yellowstone and Netflix’s six-season romance Virgin River, the cowboy series left critics thoroughly unimpressed when its first season debuted in April last year.
“This inadvertently hilarious cowboy romance is no Yellowstone,” wrote The Telegraph’s Ed Power in a two-star review, adding that it is “full of preposterously-named characters and duff dialogue.”