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“American Primeval” certainly thinks so. The new six-part Netflix series helmed by “Friday Night” Lights director Peter Berg and written by “The Revenant’s” Mark L ...

Netflix’s new Western series is a bleak and bloody affair. American Primeval pulls no punches in its six-episode limited run. Murder, rape and mayhem and suicide fill this relentlessly brutal world.

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 ...

American Primeval is a Western set before the Wild West was formed. As such, there are no saloons or cowboys here, not in a traditional sense. Nostalgia has been stripped away completely ...

If you’re looking for another western to watch these days, “American Primeval” is here to try and fill that gap. Now streaming on Netflix, the six-episode miniseries takes place in 1857 ...

Dane DeHaan with Taylor Kitsch in a later episode of American Primeval. Matt Kennedy/Netflix The series generally holds nothing back in terms of portraying the kind of visceral brutality that ...

Western shows have been around pretty much since TV was invented, and although the genre has fallen out of vogue on the big screen, they’re currently enjoying something of a golden age on ...

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 ...

As much as it condemns the cycle of violence, American Primeval’s clearest thesis isn’t that innocents die in conflict, it’s that innocence gets you killed. That is, unless you kill it first.