Starts off really well: visceral filmmaking, beautiful and grim, similar to The Revenant. And the Mormons as religious fanatics occupying land in an effort to protect their people at all deadly cost is intriguingly topical (I´m looking at you Israel..!). But somewhere between the scene where a young boy with a broken leg utters “It’s only pain” and the clichéd love story in a sugercoated ending, the series looses its way.

DNF (1 episode)

Woman wants to leave, kills bad men, falls in love, he dies—why did this take six hours? She wanted California, I wanted the credits to roll sooner.

American Primeval delivers a brutal, sepia-toned depiction of the Wild West.

Organised around the biggest of all contemporary cinematic clichés: the best thing a (substitute) father can do is disappear, leaving a pot of gold, so that the family can go on without him (to the Californian paradise). More generally, the characters and events are all constructed in standard ways for current television, and who we’re supposed to care about and what we’re supposed to think are matters that are all laid out at every step. In short, there’s nothing “primeval” going on here.

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