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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

What follows is traumatic episode that culminates in Sara “finding her inner ‘American primeval,'” according to series star ...

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 ...