Given everything that’s stacked against our heroes and heroines, is there any possibility that the likes of Sara (Betty Gilpin), Devin (Preston Mota), Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier), Isaac (Taylor Kitsch),

Netflix’s Western series ‘American Primeval’ explores the lives of a group of men and women who try their best to survive in the Wild West, even if they have to kill each other. The period drama takes place on the thin line between life and death,

A capable cast and ambitious story make American Primeval an engaging – if not earth-shattering – watch, but an overabundance of plotlines and frenetic camerawork hold it back.

The Western can be a deeply romantic genre with white hats and black hats, dusty streets and beautiful sunsets. Great films and TV series have broken with our rose-colored expectations of the American frontier,

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 Utah Territory in 1857.

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.