What to watch and read if you’re into ‘American Primeval’
This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a ...
What to watch and read if you’re into Netflix’s ‘American Primeval’
Netflix’s “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier stories know, there’s ...
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It turns out Red Feather in American Primeval is based on the actor’s real life ancestor
Red Feather is a Shoshone warrior. He leads a breakaway group of Crow fighters called the Wolf Clan. The character is ...
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What to Watch and Read if You’re Into ‘American Primeval’
As a whole, these books take apart the heroic myths that “American Primeval” critiques with its blunt-force violence — even as the show indulges in some of those myths. (For instance ...
The real massacre was ‘so much more brutal’ — ‘American Primeval’ and the truth about Mountain Meadows
In a "Mormon Land" podcast, a historian and a tribal leader discuss the facts and fiction in "American Primeval" ...
‘American Primeval’ left this historian confused and frustrated. Here’s why
When people don’t see themselves, their forebears, or their history reflected in contextualized and nuanced ways, it’s easy ...
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What 'American Primeval' gets wrong about Mormon — and American — history
The show's depiction of hood-wearing, sinister Mormons slaughtering emigrants, US Army troops and Shoshone people all within ...
Taylor Kitsch Never Expected a Happy Ending From American Primeval
The American Primeval star breaks down that brutal final scene and where he thinks the Friday Night Lights reboot will find ...
‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...
‘American Primeval’ Director Peter Berg on Finale Deaths, the Prequel Spinoff He’s Considering and ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot
Berg also responds to criticisms of the representation of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and the line he wouldn’t cross ...
What the tired tropes of ‘American Primeval’ get wrong about Brigham Young, early Latter-day Saints
The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...