Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson head the cast of the new western series premiering December 4.
You didn’t really think Netflix would let 2025 end without the premiere of at least one more series of interest to C&I readers, did you?
Get ready for The Abandons, a gritty western drama created by Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C.) and starring Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files). All ten episodes of the limited-run series will be available on Netflix starting December 4.
What’s it all about? According to Netflix: “Set in the Washington Territory in 1854, the series follows the matriarchs of two very different families: the Van Nesses, a dynasty of wealth and privilege led by Anderson’s Constance, and the Abandons, a found family of orphans and outcasts fiercely protected by Headey’s Fiona Nolan. The families find their fates linked by two crimes, an awful secret, star-crossed love, and a piece of land over a silver lode. Their collision in a place just beyond the reach of justice echoes the perpetual American struggle between the haves and have-nots.”
That collision, says executive producer Christopher Keyser, triggers “a classic American story — the frontier, two families both at war and in love with each other, [and] a battle over who owns the land and who makes the rules. In the middle of murder and revenge and a bit of illicit romance, we get to explore questions we never seem to get away from: What makes a family? How do you stay good in a bad world? And would you change who you are and what you believe in to protect what you love?
“But in this case, we do it all through the eyes of Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson, as two widowed matriarchs battling to survive. And that … is really something to watch.”
Other members of the cast include Nick Robinson (Maid, A Teacher) as Elias Teller, Diana Silvers (Booksmart, Space Force) as Dahlia Teller, Lucas Till (X-Men, MacGyver) as Garret Van Ness, Lamar Johnson (The Last of Us, Brother) as Albert Mason, Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, God’s Creatures) as Trisha Van Ness, and Natalia del Riego (Hail Mary, Promised Land) as Lilla Belle.
C&I reader favorite Michael Greyeyes and Manhunt star Patton Oswalt also are featured, along Brían F. O’Byrne (The Bastard Executioner), Clayton Cardenas (Mayans M.C.), Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Three Pines), Haig Sutherland (Lucky Hank), Jack Doolan (The Boys), Jonathan Koensgen (Reacher), Katelyn Wells (Ginny & Georgia), Marc Menchaca (Ozark), Michael Ornstein (Sons of Anarchy), Sarah Grace White (The Bastard Executioner), Michiel Huisman (Rebel Moon), Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead), and Toby Hemingway (The Crossing, Sun Gazer).
Here is the first official trailer for The Abandons.
