A month after Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone wrapped its five-season run on Paramount Network, viewers clamoring for a new televised Western have found their answer on Netflix. American Primeval, a new limited series that thrusts audiences into the brutal and volatile world of the American West, premiered on Jan. 9 and immediately shot to the top of Netflix’s streaming charts, some declaring the series the “best Western in years.”
Serving as a dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Netflix’s violent, bloody saga drops viewers into the Utah Territory, where “pain is everywhere, innocence and tranquility are losing the battle to hatred and fear. Peace is the shrinking minority, and very few possess grace — even fewer know compassion.” The series largely focuses on Sara Rowell (Betty Glipin), who hires a guide named Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) to help her and her son Devin Rowell (Preston Mota) on their journey across the
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