Netflix fans have been 'blown away' by one very popular period drama but viewers have warned it is not for the faint hearted.

American Primeval has been branded 'absolutely engrossing' by fans and one person went as far as to say it 'blew them away' - but it's not for the faint-hearted ...

The raid in “American Primeval,” based on a real-life incident known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, was done as a “oner,” a term used to describe a scene shot — or seemingly shot ...

They traverse hazardous terrain on horseback and run straight into the 1850s Utah War between Natives and Mormons that led to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, during which Mormon militias murdered ...

‘American Primeval’: Inside the ‘Pulsing, Scraping’ Sound Design TheWrap magazine: Wylie Stateman and Anne Jimkes-Root explain the raw soundscape they created for Netflix’s unsparing ...

If American Primeval was meant to capture the reality of life in the early days of the Utah Territory, then it would have been difficult to accomplish without depicting the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

The second storyline follows Abish Pratt (Saura Lightfoot-Leon), a young Mormon woman who — after surviving a militia attack reminiscent of the Mountain Meadows Massacre — is separated from ...

A depiction of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Shutterstock The two threads of theology and history are integral to understanding the way Mormon violence has been both enacted and represented.

The instigation of the story is the real-life Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which these Mormon militia members killed more than 100 members of a wagon train traveling through Utah. Some of the ...

‘American Primeval’ series review: A beautiful, brutal perspective The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 and the vicious struggle for control in the Wild West come alive in exquisite frames ...