In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes famously described the life of man in an uncivilized state as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
In Netflix‘s American Primeval, a new six-episode miniseries about life on the Western edge of civilization circa 1857, an Army captain played by Lucas Neff simplifies matters. He writes, in a generally pompous missive that doubles as voiceover, “There is only brutality here.”
American Primeval
The Bottom Line Viscerally bleak, then redundantly vicious.
Airdate: Thursday, January 9 (Netflix)
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Jai Courtney, Shea Whigham, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot Leon, Derek Hinkley, Shawnee Pourier, Preston Mota
Creator: Mark L. Smith
This nihilistic observation about the nature of man and Ye Olde West could also apply to American Primeval itself, which hails from previous chronicler of Western brutality Mark L. Smith (The
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