However, it saps anything resembling wistfulness from its Hollywood Western roots, complicating its chances of cornering the ...

Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch headline a dirty but delicate tale of intrigue and brutality The post ‘American Primeval’ ...

Lights" creator Peter Berg makes the wild west look like hell on Earth in "American Primeval." There's some good between all ...

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars ...

In the catalog of the modern western, a lot of space is given to stories focused on what is assumed to have been the sheer ...

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 ...

In Netflix’s new limited series, “American Primeval,” written by “The Revenant” scribe Mark. L. Smith, audiences are thrust ...

This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a ...

Netflix's limited series starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch plays out against the background of the so-called Utah War.

Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were ...

Set during 1857's Utah War, 'American Primeval' lays out a world where love conquers little and indifference is the only path ...

American Primeval is a sprawling, epic TV series, one that feels both deeply indebted to the Westerns of old and a purposeful rebuke of them. Present still are the genre’s John Ford-esque cloudless ...