When they can’t hire a guide, they team up with a wagon train of settlers from Arkansas and kindly Mormons making their way further west. However, before the end of American Primeval Episode 1 ...

What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

By exposing the brutality and moral contradictions that shaped the frontier, the series challenges viewers to sit with uncomfortable truths.

And though this most recent horror-filled entry of “American Primeval” feels shocking, it is reviving a pattern that began long ago. From the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830 ...

Eventually, the Mormons felt he had betrayed them ... with Preston Mota as her son Devin Rowell. American Primeval isn’t shy about showing audiences violence of varying kinds onscreen, from ...

WHIGHAM: (As Jim Bridger) Oh, I'm sure you do. And if the Army gets their hands on it, it's the end of you Mormons. BIANCULLI: "American Primeval" is as gritty as HBO's "Deadwood" and as full of ...

“American Primeval” brings elements of both storylines, with the murderous battle to settle Mormon-ruled Utah intertwined with stories of people just passing through, trying to get somewhere else and ...

The instigators were members of the Mormon militia, some dressed as Indians. As for the battle scenes in “American Primeval,” the rapid-fire arrows being shot throughout the first battle are ...

In American Primeval, Netflix’s new limited series ... Native tribes, a fledgling Mormon society, the U.S. Army, and lawless pioneers all stake claim to the land, and battles between the ...