{"id":537310,"date":"2026-07-21T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:50:11","slug":"ransom-canyon-season-2-early-premiere-watch-the-first-few-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537310\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransom Canyon Season 2 Early Premiere: Watch the First Few Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feel the gravel crunch beneath your boots and the lavender-scented breeze in your hair? The second season of Ransom Canyon<\/a>, created by April Blair, welcomes you back to your favorite small town in Texas on July 23 \u2014\u00a0and you can watch the first few minutes early, only on Tudum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last we saw<\/a> Ransom\u2019s central couple \u2014 stoic rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel) and dance hall owner Quinn O\u2019Grady (Minka Kelly) \u2014 they were at a crossroads. Staten and Quinn\u2019s will they, won\u2019t they relationship finally came to a head midway through the first season, only for Staten\u2019s anger issues and unresolved trauma to push them apart once again. (Rehash everything that happens in Season 1<\/a> before Season 2 drops later this week.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, in the first few minutes of Season 2,<\/a> Quinn touches down in her beloved Ransom after six months working as a concert pianist for the New York Philharmonic. \u201cI love that she gave up this fun, flashy, exciting life in New York for her small town, where it\u2019s safe and comfortable and she knows everybody,\u201d says Kelly. As Quinn looks out on a grassy backyard<\/a> from her creaky wraparound porch, she exhales. \u201cGuess we\u2019re not in New York anymore, Biscuit,\u201d she says to her cute pup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But does Staten know she\u2019s back in town? We quickly learn that Staten has had just a few things preoccupying him during Quinn\u2019s absence. For starters, he\u2019s been trying to win back his trustee seat at Double K ranch after his father, Sam (Brett Cullen), ousts him in the Season 1 finale. \u201cWhen Sam decides to come back, it really throws a wrench into our relationship,\u201d says Duhamel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sam returns to Ransom following a failed run for office, ominously warning the ranch hands, \u201cThere\u2019s another Kirkland in charge now.\u201d The elder Kirkland clearly knows much more about politics than ranching, to put it more elegantly than Staten does in the first few minutes. \u201cSam never really took an interest in the ranch. Staten learned everything from his grandfather,\u201d Duhamel adds. \u201cSam desperately wants to earn the respect of not only Staten but the whole crew out at the ranch.\u201d And Staten will do whatever it takes to win back his old role, even if it strains his relationship with his dad.<\/p>\n

In Quinn\u2019s absence, Staten\u2019s has also had a few new bedfellows \u2014 or, as Double K ranch hand Jake (Tatanka Means) puts it, \u201ca revolving door of lady friends\u201d \u2014 to keep him company. \u201cStaten has missed Quinn. He has been masking all that with his own behavior,\u201d says Duhamel. But Staten\u2019s expression when Jake tells him that Quinn is back shows that his feelings for her have not waned. But is it too late? As we learned in the trailer<\/a>, Quinn met someone else in New York City.\u00a0\u201cQuinn\u2019s got her own thing going on. Sometimes that\u2019s all it takes for a man: to feel what it\u2019s like not to have you in his life anymore, to see you doing just fine without him makes him go, \u2018Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,\u2019\u201d says Kelly. \u201cBut she found a guy who was really nice to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

What will happen between Quinn, her new mystery man (played by Ben Robson), and Staten? And what about the rest of Ransom<\/a>, including Ellie (Marianly Tejada), Yancy (Jack Schumacher), and the suspicious woman claiming to be his wife? What\u2019s happening with high schoolers Lauren (Lizzy Greene)<\/a>, Kit (Casey W. Johnson), and Lucas (Garrett Wareing)? As evidenced by the Season 2 trailer<\/a>, the first few minutes are just the tip of the spur when it comes to romance and intrigue in this fresh new season.<\/p>\n

Watch Ransom Canyon Season 2<\/a> on July 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feel the gravel crunch beneath your boots and the lavender-scented breeze in your hair? The second season of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-537310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}