A Wild-West Crusade on Netflix

‘American Primeval’ Review: Betty Gilpin Leads Netflix’s Relentlessly Brutal Peter Berg-Helmed Western Miniseries
Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.
‘American Primeval’ Review: A Wild-West Crusade on Netflix
Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were murdered by militant Mormons.
American Primeval review — Old West saga is a darker alternative to Yellowstone
The fates of these five characters — and those of the people they encounter along the way — unfold over six gruelling and sprawling episodes. The latest offering in TV’s recent Western renaissance, it feels darker and grittier than Taylor Sheridan’s soapy “horse opera” Yellowstone and a world away from the romanticised West of the genre’s heyday.
American Primeval, review: Netflix’s brutal Western makes Yellowstone look like Escape to the Country
American Primeval (Netflix) portrays the Old West as such a hellhole that it makes Taylor Sheridan’s rugged Westerns (Yellowstone, 1883) look like an episode of Escape to the Country. It gives us the good,
'American Primeval' review: Can Netflix's grimy Western mini-series best 'Yellowstone'?
However, it saps anything resembling wistfulness from its Hollywood Western roots, complicating its chances of cornering the post-Yellowstone market (alongside the latter's many spin-offs). What's left is the husk of a beloved genre,
'American Primeval' Review - Netflix's Western Is Awful, Which Is Entirely The Point
American Primeval is awful, but largely in a way that’s terrifically entertaining. It’s about a lot of horrible people doing a great many heinous
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Peter Berg Shows the Ugly Side of American History With the Frustrating “American Primeval”
Around the same time, a young Indigenous woman named Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier) flees from her Shoshone tribe after killing ...
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American Primeval Interview with Director Peter Berg & Indigenous Consultant Julie O'Keefe
American Primeval director Peter Berg and Indigenous Consultant Julie O'Keefe talk the show's real history origins and ...
‘American Primeval’ Review: Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin Find Blood in a Hopeless Place
Set during 1857's Utah War, 'American Primeval' lays out a world where love conquers little and indifference is the only path ...
‘American Primeval’: Netflix’s Ultra-Violent New Western Series Will Turn Your Stomach
The 19th-century American West of American Primeval is a land of unyielding brutality, though nothing about this six-part ...
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American Primeval Review: This Pulse-Pounding Western's Grim Events Triumph Over Characters I Couldn't Fully Invest In
The Revenant is one of my favorite movies of all time, blending historical fact and fiction with memorable action and ...
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What Is the True Story Behind Netflix's Violent Western American Primeval?
The series, now streaming on Netflix, depicts the brutality with which the Mormons sought to create a new world for their ...
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American Primeval Review – A Fierce Bloodbath
Peter Berg is masterful at storytelling on the small screen with Friday Night Lights and on the big screen with Lone Survivor ...
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American Primeval Interview: Kim Coates on Playing Brigham Young
In an interview with Game Rant, American Primeval star Kim Coates discusses his role as Brigham Young in the Netflix ...
Taylor Kitsch rode horses with a broken foot on ‘American Primeval’: ‘I was in a boot for a lot of the show’
I've never really been on a horse, so that was a big adjustment for me to learn how to ride – at least well enough for a ...
Is ‘American Primeval’ Based on a True Story? Mormons, Jim Bridger, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Yes, and no. American Primeval is a work of historic fiction. Meaning, Sara and Isaac’s story is made up, as is the story of ...