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Scalpings. Rapes. The sibilant impact of arrows puncturing flesh. The eye-catching Netflix mini-series “American Primeval” (premiering Thursday) contains all of those in its six episodes ...

“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 ...

It’s a shame that American Primeval isn’t being given the same opportunity to become a must-watch watercooler conversation-starter, because Netflix is kicking off the new year with a strong ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Netflix‘s American Primeval, a new six-episode miniseries about life on the Western edge of civilization circa 1857, an Army captain played by Lucas Neff simplifies matters. He writes ...

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.