No, The Abandons is not based on a true story. However, Sutter was inspired by the origins of La Cosa Nostra, also known as the Sicilian Mafia. Though “mafia” is often used to describe organized crime in general, the term technically applies only to the Sicilian organization and its Sicilian American branches in the United States, per Britannica.

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.

The Abandons on Netflix ends with a major cliffhanger in episode 7, but there's no episode 8 coming to answer whether Constance or Fiona lived.

Lena stars as Fiona Nolan, who, unable to have children of her own, adopts four orphans to make her own family. However, Fiona and her children are up against it when a group of European aristocrats lead by Gillian Anderson's character Constance Van Ness claim her land as their own.

It all culminates in an epic fight between Constance (Anderson) and Fiona (Headey) in the finale’s last scenes, and it ends on a major cliffhanger that leaves the fate of both women up in the air. Will there be a Season 2? Here’s what the stars say.

Netflix's attempts to bring the Wild West to the frontiers with The Abandons have had a disappointing debut with an extremely low Rotten Tomatoes score.

Despite strong performances from Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey, Netflix's The Abandons falls short due to plodding pacing and uneven storytelling.

The Abandons premiered this week on Netflix with all seven episodes, and the show had a very fascinating ending to the tale of rivalry between Lena Headey’s Fiona Nolan and Gillian Anderson’s Constance Van Ness.