American Primeval (Netflix) portrays the Old West as such a hellhole that it makes Taylor Sheridan’s rugged Westerns (Yellowstone, 1883) look like an episode of Escape to the Country. It gives us the good,

Those missing the Dutton family from 'Yellowstone' won’t want to pass up Netflix’s newest series, 'American Primeval.'

Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were murdered by militant Mormons.

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 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. The only thing more deadly than the frontier itself is the men who occupy it: Conniving Mormon settlers,

American Primeval is awful, but largely in a way that’s terrifically entertaining. It’s about a lot of horrible people doing a great many heinous