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Netflix’s new Western series is a bleak and bloody affair. American Primeval pulls no punches in its six-episode limited run. Murder, rape and mayhem and suicide fill this relentlessly brutal world.

“American Primeval” certainly thinks so. The new six-part Netflix series helmed by “Friday Night” Lights director Peter Berg and written by “The Revenant’s” Mark L ...

American Primeval, the newest offering from Netflix, is as gritty and violent as it gets. The shocking part is the violence shown through the six episodes actually took place in history, though some ...

D irected by Peter Berg, American Primeval chronicles the traumatic events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre during the Utah War in 1857. Aside from the thrilling storytelling, fans have grown ...

Here’s a supplementary guide. By Chris Vognar The trailer for Netflix’s ultraviolent series “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier ...

Hell, apparently, is Utah in 1857. At least that's the way it looks in "American Primeval," Netflix's new Western, for which "brutal" isn't a strong enough adjective. It's savage and primal and ...

Episode 102 of 'American Primeval'.