After getting his big break in Peter Berg’s beloved football series, Friday Night Lights (which was based in West Texas), and ...

American Primeval Is “Factually Accurate,” Says Its Director, But It Also Relies on Fictional Composites to Tell Its Story Berg and others went to the site of the Utah massacre, ...

However, the backdrop of American Primeval is based on reality. In 1857, Mormons disguised as Paiutes did massacre a group of settlers in a tragedy known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

'American Primeval' offers a gritty, heartfelt take on the Wild West Set in the lawless Utah territory of 1857, Netflix's six-part series features chaotic violence, endearing characters and some ...

If you’re looking for another western to watch these days, “American Primeval” is here to try and fill that gap. Now streaming on Netflix, the six-episode miniseries takes place in 1857, and ...

What does the “American Primeval” get wrong about the Utah War? Just about everything. Utah historian and author Barbara Jones Brown explains why that matters in the below guest column.

With its point-blank executions, slit throats, hangings, head-bashings, and gruesome scalpings, “American Primeval” is not for the squeamish. Entertainment Critic The 19th-century American ...

American Primeval pulls no punches in its six-episode limited run.Murder, rape and mayhem and suicide fill this relentlessly brutal world. The only thing more deadly than the frontier itself is ...

In this final episode of American Primeval, a fanatical Brigham Young rants about his God purifying the world from wickedness as his Mormons, fresh off a genocidal attack on the Shoshone, ...

Santa Fe, N.M. • Howard Berger, the head of makeup on “American Primeval,” a Netflix limited series, thought he had achieved the optimal level of grime. He prepared a makeup test — muddied ...

An official trailer for ‘American Primeval’ (via Netflix on YouTube). True Grit. Watching “American Primeval,” I found myself thinking of “Deadwood,” David Milch’s outstanding series that debuted in ...