‘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.
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The director of "American Primeval" stops by IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about how he embarked on the ...
Around the same time, a young Indigenous woman named Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier) flees from her Shoshone tribe after killing ...
The show is set in 1857 America when "up is down, pain is everywhere, innocence and tranquility are losing the battle to ...
While the story that unfolds on-screen took place in the 19th century Utah Territory – now Utah state – the show was filmed entirely in New Mexico, 600 miles to the south east.
Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars ...
The series, now streaming on Netflix, depicts the brutality with which the Mormons sought to create a new world for their ...
This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a ...
If you're looking for another western to watch these days, "American Primeval" is here to try and fill that gap. Now ...
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