The year is 1857. A woman is sitting in a meadow in southern Utah Territory, casually explaining her plans to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, when she’s cut off mid-sentence by a pointed object that ...

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for American Primeval & Bone Tomahawk. Few Westerns, particularly those set in the Old West, are as brutally violent as Bone Tomahawk and the new Netflix series American ...

2025's FIRST PIECE of major historical fiction has landed, and it's Netflix's brutally violent and often-engrossing Western limited series, American Primeval. Set in 1857 Utah—where settlers, groups ...

DAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: If you saw the 2015 movie "The Revenant," cowritten by Mark L. Smith, you have some strong hints about what he's up to in his new Netflix miniseries," American Primeval." Both ...

“Everything can fall apart at any moment,” says cinematographer Jacques Jouffret of what the shot conveyed. By Brande Victorian Deputy Awards Editor ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Netflix‘s American Primeval is essentially a show about how much it sucked to live in 1857 Utah Territory. From the moment that Sara Rowell (Betty Gilpin) and her son ...

American Primeval has improved drastically on Rotten Tomatoes following a disappointing early score. Created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, the hit Netflix Western chronicles the lives ...

Preston Mota and Betty Gilpin in 'American Primeval' (2025) (Credit: Netflix via IMDb). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the ...

Directed by Peter Berg, American Primeval chronicles the traumatic events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre during the Utah War in 1857. Aside from the thrilling storytelling, fans have grown curious ...