American Primeval is bleak. The way it ends and the warnings it maps out all come together in a violent spectacle that ...

“American Primeval” is set amid the real-life clashes between the U.S. Army, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Ute tribes.

'American Primeval' offers a gritty, heartfelt take on the Wild West Set in the lawless Utah territory of 1857, Netflix's six-part series features chaotic violence, endearing characters and some ...

American Primeval isn’t subtle about any of this, and worse, its early portrayal of its disparate characters as equally vicious doesn’t hold; by the midway point, some are revealed to be noble ...

Dane DeHann in ‘American Primeval’ (2025) (Credit: Netflix via IMDb). I won’t try to sum up all the gore in “American Primeval,” because that would take more space than we have here. Let me say that I ...

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

Inevitably, American Primeval is the site of a few Friday Night Lights reunions: Aside from Berg helming the series, Taylor Kitsch—who memorably broke out on the NBC drama—stars in one of the ...

American Primeval Is “Factually Accurate,” Says Its Director, But It Also Relies on Fictional Composites to Tell Its Story Berg and others went to the site of the Utah massacre, ...

American Primeval, Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal troops, crude trappers, and bloodthirsty Natives.Think Under the Banner of ...

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A fictionalized account of life out west around the 1857 Utah War, which pitted the U.S. Army against Brigham Young’s Mormon militia, “American Primeval” is a dirty but delicate web of ...