Netflix has pulled the plug on Ransom Canyon after two seasons. Deadline broke the news first, and the numbers explain a lot. Season 2 opened to 4.1 million viewers in its first week, down 43 percent from the 7.2 million who tuned into season 1. Netflix also trimmed the episode count for season 2, from ten down to eight, which in hindsight reads like an early warning sign.
Minka Kelly, who played lavender farmer and concert pianist Quinn O'Grady opposite Josh Duhamel's rancher Staten Kirkland, didn't wait long to respond. She posted a montage of the pair's biggest moments, mostly pulled from season 1, and kept her caption short and a little wistful. "All good things must come to an end. And so it is," she wrote, thanking the show's audience and calling them her "Ransom Canyon family."
The cancellation lands with some awkward timing. Creator and showrunner April Blair spoke to Entertainment Weekly right after season 2 dropped in July, insisting the finale, where Quinn turns down a marriage proposal from another man to stay with Staten, wasn't a wrap-up at all. "I always say the end of season 2 isn't the end of their story," she said then. "It's actually just the beginning." Blair had also flagged that Heidi Grace Engerman's enigmatic Sidney would have a bigger presence going forward. None of that will happen now.
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