This Netflix Western series has reached the top of the rankings for new dramas in 2025, but it's been a contentious show this year - and January is only half over. The program boasts an all-star cast and presents an unvarnished portrayal of a violent period in American history,

The series, created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin and Dane DeHaan.

Producers openly admit the six-part series dropping Thursday is highly fictionalized. It centers around 1857 involving the Utah War, Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Netflix recently released a new Western TV series that, unfortunately, highlights what exactly has gone wrong for Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone.

American Primeval is a six-episode limited series on Netflix that chronicles the violent struggles to control an otherwise wild and lawless Utah frontier. Coming from creators Peter Berg and Mark L.

A month after Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone wrapped its five-season run on Paramount Network, viewers clamoring for a new televised Western have found their answer on Netflix. American Primeval, a new limited series that thrusts audiences into the brutal and volatile world of the American West,

A dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Netflix limited series follows Sara Rowell (Betty Glipin), a determined mother who hires a guide named Isaac (Taylor Kit

Netflix's "American Primeval" starring Taylor Kitsch is partly inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857.

It is seen as one of the darkest chapters in American history – an act of domestic terrorism second only to the Oklahoma City bombing nearly 140 years later. As new Netflix drama ‘American Primeval’ tells the story of violence committed by Mormons but blamed on Native Americans,

Set in 1857 amid the brutal Utah War, the Netflix series spares none of the grime and violence in its attempt to offer a fair and authentic retelling.

Jacob Pratt suffers through horrifying circumstances in American Primeval, and later murders Cook after learning his role in the scarring events.