The year is 1857. A woman is sitting in a meadow in southern Utah Territory, casually explaining her plans to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, when she’s cut off mid-sentence by a pointed object that ...

Those who love Westerns may have been extremely excited to see trailers for the recently released series American Primeval. The gritty Netflix original show, which released on Jan. 9, has already ...

2025's FIRST PIECE of major historical fiction has landed, and it's Netflix's brutally violent and often-engrossing Western limited series, American Primeval. Set in 1857 Utah—where settlers, groups ...

“Everything can fall apart at any moment,” says cinematographer Jacques Jouffret of what the shot conveyed. By Brande Victorian Deputy Awards Editor ...

American Primeval has improved drastically on Rotten Tomatoes following a disappointing early score. Created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, the hit Netflix Western chronicles the lives ...

Preston Mota and Betty Gilpin in 'American Primeval' (2025) (Credit: Netflix via IMDb). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the ...

DAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: If you saw the 2015 movie "The Revenant," cowritten by Mark L. Smith, you have some strong hints about what he's up to in his new Netflix miniseries," American Primeval." Both ...

There's a new Western in town and it has fans enamored and conversations emerging about it being "anti-Yellowstone." American Primeval is a new American Western that released on Netflix on January 9 ...