‘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.
‘American Primeval' Review: Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin Find Blood in a Hopeless Place
Set during the Utah War of 1857, Peter Berg's limited series lays out a world where love conquers little, indifference is the only path to survival, and wanting anything will only bring death that much faster.
‘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' Reviews Reveal Netflix's Brutal Western is a Mixed Bag
The first reviews for Netflix's brutal Western are out, and the critic response thus far has been mixed, to say the least.
‘American Primeval’ Review: Netflix’s Violent Western Plays Like a Masochistic Binge
Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch headline "American Primeval," Netflix's dirty but delicate tale of intrigue and brutality
Roush Review: Brutal ‘American Primeval’ Reveals the West at Its Wildest
A relentlessly violent six-part Western stars Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch as travelers in the forbidding Utah territory of 1857, trying to survive amid massacres, mad wolves, and more.
'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.
‘American Primeval’ Is a Bloody Slog Through the Old West
We begin with Sara (Betty Gilpin) and her son Devin (Preston Mota) heading west to reconnect with Sara’s husband, though it’s unclear whether he is expecting, or even desiring, their arrival. Jim Bridger (Shea Whigham),
'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 review: a bloody Netflix Western full of wasted potential
Netflix's American Primeval is a promising but ultimately clichéd and unsatisfying Western miniseries.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘American Primeval’ On Netflix, About The Violent, Chaotic World Of The Utah Territory In The 1850s
The series, created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin and Dane DeHaan.