The series, created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin and Dane DeHaan.

However, it saps anything resembling wistfulness from its Hollywood Western roots, complicating its chances of cornering the ...

Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch headline a dirty but delicate tale of intrigue and brutality The post ‘American Primeval’ ...

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 ...

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

Caught in the middle of it all is none other than mountain man Jim Bridger. Portrayed by legendary character actor Shea ...

Lights" creator Peter Berg makes the wild west look like hell on Earth in "American Primeval." There's some good between all ...

This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a ...

Netflix's limited series starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch plays out against the background of the so-called Utah War.

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

Set during 1857's Utah War, 'American Primeval' lays out a world where love conquers little and indifference is the only path ...

Netflix's American Primeval is a Western epic made better by centering the women at the heart of the story. Read our review.