Netflix's new limited series is set in the Old West, but it's much more than a Western, says star Kim Coates, who plays Brigham Young.

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.

Jacob is a Mormon who's leading his family to Utah for a new life. He's played by Dane DeHaan, who recently appeared in "Oppenheimer" and "Dumb Money." Y

American Primeval has just dropped on Netflix, offering a Western series set in 1857, with a star-studded cast including Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin and Kim Coates

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.

Netflix's epic period Western series American Primeval ends with a surprising detour that sends several of its key characters to the Golden Coast.

Netflix‘s new limited series American Primeval gives a startling look at the American West in the mid-1800s, when Native Americans came to deadly blows with Mormon soldiers, pioneers looking for a new life,

American Primeval is bleak. The way it ends and the warnings it maps out all come together in a violent spectacle that doesn't valorize the West. The post REVIEW: ‘American Primeval’ Is One Of Netflix’s Bleakest and Best Miniseries appeared first on But Why Tho?

Fans of Netflix’s American Primeval are eagerly awaiting updates on its future. The series follows a mother and son escaping their past while forming a found family in the harsh American West. Viewers are curious about the prospects for Season 2.