"Angel's Ridge, Washington Territory, 1854. It's dusty, there's a saloon bar, there's horses, an ineffable sense of I don't know, let's call it manifest destiny about the place, and the only colour settlers have brought with them is sepia. But wait! What's this? The owner of the local silver mine riding into town? And it's a woman! In a western? Yessir, it is."
"Its joint lead is Lena Headey as Fiona Nolan, a devout Irish Catholic woman who has gathered a misfit ragtag bunch of motley orphan crew outcasts about her and lives with this patchwork family in Jasper Hollow. Jasper Hollow, alas, is full of silver that Constance Van Ness (the local mine owner, played by Anderson) wishes to bring under her control to placate one of her investors."
The Abandons is an eight-episode Western set in 1854 Washington Territory where Jasper Hollow's silver draws a ruthless mine owner, Constance Van Ness, into conflict with local families. Fiona Nolan, a devout Irish Catholic, leads a patchwork household of orphaned outcasts defending their homestead and neighboring settlements. Sabotage and intimidation, including masked men driving steers to a cliff, escalate as a corrupt sheriff refuses help. Themes include the clash between power and community, faith versus godlessness, legal versus moral justice, and loyalty born of blood or chosen family amid frontier brutality.
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