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Pop Culture Happy Hour

The Abandons

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In Netflix’s The Abandons, Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey play two steely matriarchs that face off on the American frontier. But don’t let the spurs and cowboy hats fool you. At its heart, the new Western series is a sudsy nighttime soap. But is that a good thing?

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Don't let the Spurs and the Cowboy Hats fool you.

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At its heart, the new Western series The Abandons is a sudsy nighttime soap, and that's a good thing.

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Two steely matriarchs face off on the American frontier.

0:30.5

Lena Heedy is the poor cattle farmer who's struggling to hold her found family of good-hearted misfits together.

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And Jillian Anderson is the rich mine owner with her own brood of obnoxiously entitled

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offspring.

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She wants Lena's land and will go to any length to get it.

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