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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for American Primeval! The ending of American Primeval is shocking, but it was actually set up in the opening two minutes of episode 1. Netflix's new Western drama ...