‘The Abandons’ is a sudsy soap opera dressed up in spurs and a cowboy hat

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December 7, 2025

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Lena Headey as Fiona Nolan in <em>The Abandons</em>.

On the surface it’s a gorgeous, hardscrabble Western, awash in stark landscapes, grubby faces, bar fights and banditry. But scratch away the grime, and you expose the pure, glitzy soap opera beneath.

(Image credit: Matthias Clamer)