Ransom Canyon is only one of Netflix’s most-anticipated new exhibits. Indeed, out of all the new titles coming to the platform in April 2025, the western sequence stands out because the one to look at, which implies I’ve marked my calendar for when it drops on April 17.
Based on Jodi Thomas’ sequence of novels, Ransom Canyon follows three ranch households within the coronary heart of Texas Hill Country leaving no stone unturned with their intertwining drama, love, and loss. One of its central characters is Reid Collins, a job that actor Andrew Liner has bravely taken on for his first time filming with Netflix.
We’re nonetheless a number of days away from Ransom Canyon’s premiere, and there are loads of unanswered questions on what we will anticipate to see within the present’s first season. Luckily, Liner has all of the solutions and took the time to inform me all about Netflix’s western, the largest performing classes he’s realized, why he thinks the western style has resonated with so many viewers and whether or not a second season is on the playing cards.
“Growing up, I wished to see myself on display”
Right off the bat, Liner’s pleasure for the present is unconfined. Without giving an excessive amount of away, the Netflix star completely captures the essence of what we will anticipate from what may turn out to be one of many subsequent greatest Netflix exhibits.
“I’m so excited for individuals to begin connecting to the characters. There are some fights, homicide mysteries, and I’m excited for individuals to begin guessing on who they suppose did it. As a lot of a curler coaster experience as it’s, you are guessing a special character for every episode”. Liner was actually promoting it to me, and I used to be shopping for it.
But when it got here to moving into the position of Reid, this transition gave the impression to be a reasonably clean one for Liner who instantly recognized his character’s goal and carved his narrative accordingly. He describes Reid very merely; “complicated”.
“That’s why I like him a lot. He’s misunderstood and really complicated, and once you’re in your youth, you are making an attempt to determine who you’re, and he is very a lot doing that”, the Netflix star provides.
Liner doesn’t cease there, delving deeper into his character: “He’s looking for the great in himself, but in addition not making an attempt to lose the integrity of himself. I believe that lots of people will suppose he’s not man, however I like him. He’s simply stumbling alongside and making an attempt to be good.”
“I’m making one thing that I believe lots of people may doubtlessly watch”
This is what the Ransom Canyon star shared with me once I requested the way it felt going right into a Netflix manufacturing. But though he has labored with different streaming platforms, most notably Vampire Academy on Peacock, Liner felt a distinction with Netflix.
“It undoubtedly felt a bit totally different as a result of it felt greater”, he remembers first moving into the Netflix studio. But regardless of this distinction, Liner is a ready actor, and was already geared up with the skillset required to convey one other huge scale TV manufacturing to life.
“Thank God for Vampire Academy. That was eight months of stunt coaching, so I bought to make use of that and every part transferring ahead. I’ve a battle in Ransom Canyon, and I bought to make use of that stunt coaching to the most effective of my capability. But our ladies are fierce and opinionated and powerful, they usually battle more durable than the boys”, Liner shared with me, teasing extra action-fueled moments from the upcoming Netflix present.
Having gained ample expertise engaged on supernatural, fantasy, and sci-fi exhibits, Ransom Canyon marks the primary western manufacturing for Liner. Given the rise in reputation of adjoining exhibits resembling Yellowstone, Liner may be very conscious of what this style means to viewers.
Liner places it fairly merely: “When I used to be rising up, Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassie and the Sundance Kid have been the best guys. I believe that’s what we need to get again to. We need to really feel some out of world expertise, however near the world, however not likely, however sort of. It’s about ardour.”
Will Ransom Canyon return for season 2?
Speaking of impeccable style, Liner is as obsessive about TV exhibits simply as a lot as the common buff. Having discovered that out, I needed to know extra.
“I like Bojack Horseman! It’s an grownup animation, darkish comedy, however it’s additionally so grounded, and emotional. I all the time do a frequent re-watch of that. And Black Mirror is all the time superior. It lends an enormous hand to the writers making a story, and it offers actors a chance to essentially dive into these roles.”
Hopefully, Ransom Canyon will show itself worthy of the identical degree of respect as audiences have given to exhibits like Bojack Horseman and Black Mirror. Still, its first season may be very a lot in an embryonic stage, however Liner has hopes that the story can proceed for a second season, stating “we do not know but, however I certain hope so”.
“Once you see the finale you will see that there is extra story to inform. And I believe with my character particularly, you are going to need to see what he does after his actions – the repercussions, if you’ll.”
