'American Primeval' review: Can Netflix's grimy Western mini-series best 'Yellowstone'?
However, it saps anything resembling wistfulness from its Hollywood Western roots, complicating its chances of cornering the post-Yellowstone market (alongside the latter's many spin-offs). What's left is the husk of a beloved genre,
‘American Primeval’ Ending Explained: Do Any Characters Survive the Brutal Netflix Western?
While Brigham Young (Kim Coates) succeeds in burning down Jim Bridger’s (Shea Whigham) beloved fort, Bridger survives the fire. In real life, Jim Bridger would head east to plea his case to the U.S. Government against Young. Fort Bridger would be resurrected as a key U.S. military base of operations and Bridger wouldn’t die until 1881.
'American Primeval' review: Brutal Western makes 'Game of Thrones' look tame
Lights" creator Peter Berg makes the wild west look like hell on Earth in "American Primeval." There's some good between all the blood.
What Is the True Story Behind Netflix's Violent Western American Primeval?
The series, now streaming on Netflix, depicts the brutality with which the Mormons sought to create a new world for their beliefs, the pride with which the native people held onto their ancestral lands, and the tragedy of the people just seeking to make a new home in the chaos. But is any of it true?
‘American Primeval’ Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in Netflix’s Western Miniseries?
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‘American Primeval’ is a bloody western meditating on survival in a brutal world
Netflix's limited series starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch plays out against the background of the so-called Utah War.
‘American Primeval’ Review: Hopeless on the Range
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 miserableness of life on the frontier. Viscous carpets of mud. Frigid snowscapes. Scalpings. Rapes. The sibilant impact of arrows puncturing flesh.
‘American Primeval’ Review: Netflix’s Violent Western Plays Like a Masochistic Binge
Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch headline a dirty but delicate tale of intrigue and brutality The post ‘American Primeval’ Review: Netflix’s Violent Western Plays Like a Masochistic Binge appeared first on TheWrap.
‘American Primeval’ Review: Brutal, Bleak Western Series Is Exhausting to Watch
It’s important to desanitize the Hollywood fantasy of the Wild West and confront our own history. But this Netflix series is grim to the point of cruelty.
‘American Primeval’ Review: Betty Gilpin Leads Netflix’s Relentlessly Brutal Peter Berg-Helmed Western Miniseries
Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.
Netflix's ‘American Primeval' Is a Brutally Violent Western Led by a Compelling Taylor Kitsch: TV Review
In Netflix’s new limited series, “American Primeval,” written by “The Revenant” scribe Mark. L. Smith, audiences are thrust into the viciousness of the American West, specifically the Utah Territory in 1857.
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Peter Berg Shows the Ugly Side of American History With the Frustrating “American Primeval”
Around the same time, a young Indigenous woman named Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier) flees from her Shoshone tribe after killing ...
What to Watch and Read if You’re Into ‘American Primeval’
This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a ...