It’s so common these days for TV shows to bloat themselves beyond all reason — more than three years later, I think I’m still watching the Season 4 finale of “Stranger Things” — that it feels ungrateful to complain about the opposite problem. But then you get a series like “ The Abandons ,” the Netflix Western that feels strangely thin and compressed, especially when held up against its epic, sweeping scenery. (“The Abandons” is set in 19th-century Washington and was shot in Alberta.) Even without knowing the production’s chaotic backstory, in which creator Kurt Sutter left the show before filming had even wrapped, and a reported 10-episode order winnowed down first to eight and then just seven, something already feels amiss. With episodes that often run closer to 30 minutes than 60,

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