The first reviews for Netflix's brutal Western are out, and the critic response thus far has been mixed, to say the least.

The show is set in 1857 America when "up is down, pain is everywhere, innocence and tranquility are losing the battle to ...

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Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars ...

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 ...

In Netflix’s new limited series, “American Primeval,” written by “The Revenant” scribe Mark. L. Smith, audiences are thrust ...

Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were ...

American Primeval is a sprawling, epic TV series, one that feels both deeply indebted to the Westerns of old and a purposeful rebuke of them. Present still are the genre’s John Ford-esque cloudless ...

Netflix’s new Western series is a bleak and bloody affair.

The series, now streaming on Netflix, depicts the brutality with which the Mormons sought to create a new world for their ...

It may be premature to go around throwing terms like “best of the year” right now, but life moves fast, and Netflix moves even faster. The streaming service has just dropped American Primeval, a ...

American Primeval on Netflix puts a powerful spin on the Western TV genre, but one crucial thing stops it from being great.