America’s past is pock-marked with cruelty, blood and deceit, and while more and more films and movies (“1883,” “Killers Of The Flower Moon,” “Power Of The Dog,” et al) have tried to show that reality ...

Hell, apparently, is Utah in 1857. At least that's the way it looks in "American Primeval," Netflix's new Western, for which "brutal" isn't a strong enough adjective. It's savage and primal and bloody ...

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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 miserableness of life on the frontier. Viscous carpets of mud. Frigid ...

After one of many calamities befalls the bedeviled pioneers traversing the unforgiving landscape of American Primeval, we hear these words of cold comfort: “It’s just pain.” Even John Wayne might have ...

Set during the Utah War of 1857, Peter Berg's limited series lays out a world where love conquers little, indifference is the only path to survival, and wanting anything will only bring death that ...

The centerpiece of the astounding “American Primeval” is fundamentalist terrorism on Sept. 11—of 1857. On that date, as portrayed in this six-part dramatization, an army of militant Mormons, assisted ...

Whenever westerns surge in popularity, as they have on TV since Yellowstone became a surprise megahit in 2018, you can be certain our collective understanding of American identity is in flux. After ...