Netflix’s ‘American Primeval’ Is a Brutally Violent Western Led by a Compelling Taylor Kitsch: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu 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.
Told through the perilous journey of a young mother and her son desperate to start anew, the show examines several groups of Americans — pioneers, Indigenous people, military men and Mormons — all clambering to survive in a profoundly volatile, fear-filled world.
The six episodes present a brutal, fascinating depiction of a culture and a country that has yet to overcome its most violent predilections.
This Western begins amid the Utah War, an increasingly bloody conflict between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — a.k.a.
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