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Positive:
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Critic Reviews
Jan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
One of the lures of a creation story such as “American Primeval” is the promise of pretty myths being burned down like a tribal village. And a reminder of how fragile civilization is, especially when self-preservation is at the top of everyone’s frontier agenda. These promises are fulfilled; the production becomes impossible not to watch. .... The performances are generally terrific.
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The TelegraphJan 9, 2025
The Mercury NewsJan 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Berg throws dirty, cold water onto any romantic notion about the Wild West and that might put some off. If you’re one of them, stick with “Yellowstone” instead. But if you were a fan of “The Revenant” (Smith wrote it), this addictive series needs to make it way into your queue.
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Jan 8, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Lives up to its name on every level. This is one of the grittiest, grimiest, bloodiest and most chaotic Westerns in recent memory — a bone-rattling and visceral experience that escalates the tension level from episode to episode and plunges us deep into the mud and muck of the 1850s, and the fierce clashes of culture and religion that result in terrible slaughter at every turn.
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Jan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
American Primeval is an unsparing look at a segment of the American West in the 1850s that pretty much saw conflict, blood and death every single day. It’s certainly bleak, but it also reflects what it was really like for people heading West at that time, and why survival was probably their greatest achievement.
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Jan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s good — beautifully produced, with evident dedication to cultural detail, full of interesting if not always palatable characters acted with commitment. .... The question is, are you interested in living in this mostly unpleasant space for something like six hours? One might even say that the series succeeds by being difficult to watch. (I don’t recommend bingeing it in any case; it’s exhausting.) There is an emotional payoff at the end, if you’re not too numb to appreciate it, but it takes some hard traveling to get there.
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Jan 8, 2025
Season 1 Review:
An all-star ensemble and compelling historical setting aren’t ultimately enough to pin down such a sprawling epic, especially when it’s being told with such distracting camerawork. Given either more economic storytelling or more time – and less frenetic frames – Netflix could’ve really struck gold.
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