Ransom Canyon
Netflix | Release Date: April 17, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
ColliderMegan VickApr 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: Ransom Canyon represents the best of what TV has to offer in so many ways. There's solid acting across the board, it looks beautiful, and most importantly, it allows the audience to blissfully escape into another world for an hour at a time. Read full review
80
Screen RantGreg MacArthurAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: On paper, Ransom Canyon could have been just another modern TV Western misfire. On the screen, however, Ransom Canyon executes its simple premise at a high level, balancing at least a dozen great characters that will win audiences over with their storybook earnestness and Southern charm. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydApr 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: There is no reason on Earth not to enjoy this well-made, nicely acted, soapy, soap-bubble show, whose 10 episodes have been laid out whole for you to binge. Come for the messy lives, the promise of love, the old-fashioned values. Read full review
80
VarietyAramide TinubuApr 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: “Ransom Canyon” doesn’t offer anything viewers haven’t seen or experienced on television (or between the pages of a romance novel). However, this is what makes it such a delightful watch. Read full review
70
TheWrapLauren PiesterSep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review: There’s nothing brand new here, but there didn’t really need to be. “Ransom Canyon” is a totally competent and delightful cowboy-themed soap that might give you a bit of what “Yellowstone” failed to bring in its final seasons. Read full review
70
DeciderJoel KellerApr 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: No one is going to mistake Ransom Canyon for prestige television. But it’s certainly a soapy, guilty pleasure, anchored by performances from Duhamel and Kelly that make you want to see both of their characters get what they want, which is each other. Read full review
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