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

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

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

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

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 ...

America's past is pock-marked with cruelty, blood and deceit, and while more and more films and movies ("1883," "Killers Of ...

With its point-blank executions, slit throats, hangings, head-bashings, and gruesome scalpings, “American Primeval” is not ...

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

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 ...

American Primeval tracks various factions through a merciless 1857 Utah, where a philosophy known as “manifest destiny” is ...

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