弃徒 (2025)

Anderson and Headey give it their full commitment but their characters are painfully one note.

Fiona Nolan and her family are the more interesting of the two, if only because how they came together. .... When Anderson and Headey are in scenes together, it’s hard to look away.

Many of The Abandons’ concerns were better and more interestingly examined in 2022’s The English (a revisionist western further revised by Hugo Blick and starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer as two rootless beings finding out what freedom means). But it remains a thoughtful, essentially sound production – and the script improves in quality if not depth.

In many ways, it feels like we're only beginning to scratch the surface of what "The Abandons" has to offer. But as long as Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey are involved, audiences can expect fireworks.

Headey and Anderson indulge in the pitfalls that have bedeviled men in the western genre for a century is intriguing, and that excitement is sorely missed when the series overcomplicates things. By the end of seven episodes, it has diminished the blunt force of their blows when they finally get to literally and figuratively throw hands.

It’s not a bad premise—or a fresh one, save for the diversity of the good guys. .... Their [Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson's] performances are so large and earnest and melodramatic—Mam in a broad Irish brogue, Constance with a pinched malevolence—that two actresses of their stature, never mind talent, would certainly have caught a whiff of the ham in the air. That said, the rest of the cast is solid. .... But it certainly moves along, powered by Mr. Sutter’s sense of narrative abundance.

It's easy to imagine a more entertaining version of The Abandons where Headey and Anderson really get to cook, but here they're just battling against unmemorable material.

In spite of its strengths, The Abandons has got a weird, urgent quickness to it, a sense that it’s not really committing to telling this story, or is worried that if it strays too far from the central action, viewers will stop paying attention. .... There’s so much that’s left unsaid; with just seven episodes, there clearly wasn’t room for everything, but I really could have used some flashbacks.

The Abandons deploys its considerable advantages in service of something safely regurgitative, where characters’ emotions run only as deep as the dried-up banks of the Columbia River.

The genre is no longer a boys’ club but what’s even fresher in The Abandons is the theme of motherhood. Constance and Fiona run their families with a strong hand, their protectiveness a hair away from lunacy.

The plot is all over the place right from the start—twists you see coming a mile away and plot holes big enough to drive a truck through.Even with a cast that should ve been fire, the writing is so poor, the chars are about as deep as a **** result? Total garbage. Boring as ****. You re literally counting the minutes until its over.Netflix needs to quit pumping out this trash and just start selling laxatives instead! their shows already give you the runs because they re absolutely ****, I could write something better while ****

I was so SO excited when I saw the trailer for this because I love the lead actors so much! And to see them together in something is a real treat. But I cannot get past episode one. The writing and dialogue is awful. What a stupid story. I don't even think the actors had a buy-in on this plot, i don't think they thought it was any good either. What an utter let down this is. Kudo's to the costume department and the animal trainers, the set is also really good optically. But as for the story, no. Very ridiculous, cheesy, predictable and just embarrassing.

Well, I lasted 7 minutes. Sorry, but that is how bad the writing is with this thing. Cliche after cliche, starts out with *incredibly* bad CGI of a town at the base of a mountain, except they made the buildings too big, or the mountain too small, LOL. These are the Giant People, I guess. One of the little inexperienced details that come through on this, then you have right away what is your "power" mining family (seen this same exact story 1,000 times before), with Gillian Anderson, two adult sons, and teen daughter riding into town like someone bought them 100 year old horses. Slow, methodic, trying to show how the town is afraid of them, oh no! First line is one of the sons complaining he is assigned to take care of the horses, with full on cliche pause for "effect" mid-sentence from him, "I think i'm a little more important...(long long pause)...than a horse." Mind you, back then horses were seriously like gold, and survival depended on them.That complaint would never be like that, because horses were so valuable that horse thieves were immediately given the death penalty. Anderson is talking amazingly, excruciatingly slow as she tells her daughter, "Noooo. Rash....adventures." Of course we know exactly what that means, the daughter will get into trouble. Who speaks that way? This is all in the first 7 minutes. Before I clicked away from this pile of garbage, the scene moves inside where I guess they didn't want us to spend 30 minutes watching them 'cool walk' because it would have taken that long, to find in an office with everyone's not-favorite Patton Oswald as the mayor. Wearing the cliche little glasses seen in movie after movie of this character type's costume, Gillian looks out a dusty window at golden hour sun, even though it was just around 10 am outside, then proceeds to tell him their profits are down throwing in yet another cliche, "...and one of our primary investors, MISTER VANDERBILT ahem, would not be happy...." ohhh! shock!! That was **** me.Pale Rider did it 100 times better, same kind of story in Yellowstone except about a ranch closer to modern times, and we really don't care if the leads in this one are male or female. Skip this and you will thank me. Just. No. Rash. Adventures.

Great show. Love that it centered on women. Hoping to see more of lena and gillian in s2, their chemistry is fire

I’m not usually a fan of Westerns, so I honestly didn’t expect The Abandons on Netflix to catch my interest. But after the first episode, I was hooked. The show surprised me with how quickly it became engaging, the love stories, the family dynamics, and the layered plots all pulled me in. What really stood out is how the series makes you feel so strongly about its characters. Some you can’t help but root for, and others you absolutely love to hate. The emotional range really adds depth to the story, and by the end, it became one of my new favorites.I’m definitely hoping for a Season 2, there’s so much more I want to see from this world and these characters.

Awesome, I love that the women run the show with heart and strength. Very entertaining

Unbelievably bad, hackneyed writing. Ten years ago dialogue like this would have been laughed out of the room, but for some reason lines like this are still being written (paraphrased): "Why do Mexican voices not matter? Only White voices matter now?" Ham-fisted, in-your-face writing that had my entire family laughing out loud. Unintentionally funny, absurd, and so many of the lines sounded exactly like AI. Also, other than Gillian Anderson, the acting was laughable as well. What a colossal waste of time and money, if Netflix wants people to continue to pay them every month they need to get some new people running the company. Preferably people who aren't still stuck in 2020. 1/10 - Do Not Recommend

I don't understand why some people are hating it so much, it's been a fun watch so far. Great acting from Lena and Gillian, some very cute scenes (the dog, family moments, the romeo and juliet couple), the episodes keep you entertained and wanting to know what's gonna happen next. As much as I agree they should have taken more time developing some of the characters and plots, it's not a bad show. I've also seen racist people call it "too woke", which is ridiculous. I hope netflix will renew it for a second season.