Yes, and no. American Primeval is a work of historic fiction. Meaning, Sara and Isaac’s story is made up, as is the story of ...

As you watch Netflix's "American Primeval," learn more about a key moment in the first episode: the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...

American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar.

American Primeval has just landed on Netflix and the Western series is a fictional story set in 1857, but it is based on real ...

American Primeval ’s director and executive producer Peter Berg ( Friday Night Lights) knows that depicting real events isn’t ...

Producers openly admit the six-part series dropping Thursday is highly fictionalized. It centers around 1857 involving the ...

A new Netflix series breaks "with the historical record in ways that may bemuse the average viewer but will likely displease ...

If you've been binge-watching Netflix's Western miniseries American Primeval, you might be wondering if Crooks Springs is a real part of the 1857 American landscape.

American Primeval is a sprawling, epic TV series, one that feels both deeply indebted to the Westerns of old and a purposeful rebuke of them. Present still are the genre’s John Ford-esque cloudless ...

This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a ...

With a historical setting and real-life inspiration, it’s fair for Netflix viewers to ask: is American Primeval based on a true story?