With Yellowstone over and Virgin River Season 7 a long way away, Netflix has come galloping to the rescue with new drama Ransom Canyon – and boy, is it just as delicious. It turns out that no iteration of the Virgin River format is a bad one.

Is Ransom Canyon the next Yellowstone or the new Virgin River? Depends on who you ask. At first glance, Netflix's foray into Westerns checks everything off our checklist from hot cowboys to feuding ranch families to love triangles.

Meanwhile, a company called Austin Water & Power wants to run a pipeline into Ransom Canyon’s ginormous aquifer. It has been tossing money around like confetti but has come upon a pair of immovable objects in the persons of cantankerous old rancher Cap Fuller (James Brolin),