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It feels like it's been a decade since The Walking Dead: Dead City season 1 concluded on a small cliffhanger, depicting Maggie and her son Hershel's rift to be near irreparable, while Negan is essentially handed the keys to the kingdom, which is Manhattan. But Maggie is seemingly ready to finally bury the hatchet with Negan.

That is if she is not wielding his weapon of choice, the new and improved Lucille. Yes, this is something we see in the newly released The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 trailer. The second season premieres Sunday, May 4, 2025 on both AMC and AMC+. Check out the video below!

Although Maggie is ready to confront Negan and does, much to his surprise, she's not alone. Hershel is tagging along, but is it for his mother's benefit or The Dama? After all, The Dama seems to be holding all the cards and is the sole reason...

AMC Networks has released a gripping new trailer for the second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City, and it’s clear that the battle for survival in a crumbling Manhattan is far from over.

Season 2 is officially set to premiere in a few months on Sunday, May 4th at 9:00 p.m. Et on AMC and AMC+, with more brutal showdowns, power struggles, and character clashes on the horizon.

Returning to their fan-favorite roles, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan reprise their portrayals of Negan and Maggie, two characters whose fraught alliance continues to unravel. While the undead still pose a deadly threat, the bigger danger this season might be each other. With tension rising and trust wearing thin, the two find themselves caught in a power play that could reshape the future of the island.

The trailer opens with an eerie cover of “Manhattan” by Rodgers & Hart, setting a haunting tone.

J.J. Abrams (“The Force Awakens”) and showrunner Latoya Morgan’s (“Shameless”) new series “Duster” will debut May 15, with the first official trailer teasing an increasingly dangerous crime syndicate.

Starring Josh Holloway (“Lost”), Rachel Hilson and Keith David (“The Thing”), “Duster” is set in the 1970s Southwest as a getaway driver gets entangled in a crime network that is threatened by the arrival of a young agent in town. Hilson stars as the first Black female FBI agent.

“Duster” was produced in association with Warner Bros. Television, with the eight episodes dropping weekly through the finale on July 3. The first two episodes are written by Abrams and Morgan, with Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich executive producing for Bad Robot while Morgan executive produces for TinkerToy Productions.

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Twd fans can’t get over the final scene in The Walking Dead: Dead City season two trailer of Maggie holding Negan’s bat, although obviously it’s not the original Lucille. That, or the fact it appears she’ll be fighting a bear.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland,” reads AMC’s synopsis. “In season two, in the growing war for control of New York City, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.”

Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ (Photo Credit: Peter Kramer/AMC)

The cast of season two includes Gaius Charles,...

Fans of The Walking Dead: Dead City were greeted with a post-apocalyptic treat today as AMC Networks released the first trailer for the upcoming second season. It'll be almost two years since the first season premiered in June 2023 when Season 2 makes its debut, so this wait is long overdue to see the return of Maggie and Negan.

Dead City Season 2 will continue the evolving work to control New York City between Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they have to deal with villains that include the dead and other conflicts that have made the city their haven of anarchy. The trailer is expertly played to the tune of "Manhattan" by Rodgers & Hart, which works well to set the tone for the city that has been at the center of this conflict. New villains make an appearance, but another return appears to be in the works as Lucille,...

When the Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (check out our review Here) had its premiere in June of 2023, it became the biggest cable drama debut of the year, drawing in 683,000 viewers as it aired on AMC, with viewers of the simulcasts on BBC America and IFC, plus replays, boosting the number of viewers to 1.12 million. So it’s no surprise that we’re getting The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 – and AMC has announced that it’s going to premiere on May 4th. We’re not too far off from that date, so a trailer has now made its way online and you can check it out in the embed above.

Eli Jorné, who was a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons, serves as showrunner on The Walking Dead: Dead City. This show sees Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan...

AMC has released the full official trailer for “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 2, and it’s packed with just about everything you’d expect from such a trailer. Negan wielding a barbed wire baseball bat, Maggie wrestling with her Negan-fucked past, and zombies rampaging through a decaying NYC. But it’s also got an angry bear. And we didn’t see that coming.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 2 premieres May 4 on AMC and AMC+.

Watch the new official trailer down below to see what Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, and their fan-favorite characters Negan and Maggie, are up to these days.

“Dead City” follows Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

In Season...

Get ready for more wild action in a zombie-filled New York. The second season of ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ is coming our way, and it’s bringing some crazy twists. We’re talking zombies, baseball bats, and even bears. It all kicks off on May 4, so mark your calendars.

This show takes us back to a crumbling Manhattan, cut off from the rest of the world. Lauren Cohan stars as Maggie, a tough survivor we know from the original ‘The Walking Dead’.

She’s teamed up with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan, the guy with a knack for swinging his trusty barbed-wire bat, Lucille. Their uneasy partnership started in the first season, and now they’re diving deeper into the chaos.

The new trailer just dropped, and it’s packed with surprises. We see Negan back in his element, looking more like the ruthless leader he once was.

Maggie and Negan are set to reunite and face new villains in “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 2, which premieres May 4 at 9 p.m. Et on AMC and AMC+.

The trailer opens with shots of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan skyline, before cutting between shots of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) trapped on opposite sides in a growing war for control of New York City.

“Why do you want to bring back Manhattan,” Maggie says, to which Perlie Armstrong replies: “We’ve lost too much.”

It then cuts to Negan walking through a church, where he tells the attendees, including the Dama: “I hear this island’s got no laws. The question is are you going to keep it that way?”

“You see power, equals power,” he continues, as the trailer shows Radio City Music Hall light up. “So if you ain’t with us, I guess you’re...

In six seasons of TNT’s Animal Kingdom, Jake Weary got beat up and bloodied a lot. But he gets a whole new kind of unpleasant shock in the Season 2 trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City that AMC dropped on Thursday. (Press Play above to watch.)

Fans of the fourth Walking Dead spinoff are also going to be jolted by the extended clip, in which Lauren Cohan’s beleaguered Maggie is seen brandishing Lucille, the barbed wire-covered baseball bat that Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan used to “strike out” her husband, Glenn. What kind of Freaky Friday s—t is this?...

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The following contains spoilers for American Primeval, now streaming on Netlflix. It also contains a mention of suicide.

With Westerns like Yellowstone reigniting the genre for TV, Netflix decided to take things in a raw and unadulterated direction. The streamer achieves this with the shockingly gory American Primeval, which focuses on the 1850s and the Utah War.

The series depicts American soldiers, the Mormons and Natives battling for territory. Along the way, the show maps out one of the most tragic love stories of its genre. But it's not the one fans think is on top of the list. It's a darker story, focusing on Dane DeHaan's Jacob Pratt and his wife, Abish.

Who Was American Primeval's Jacob Pratt? Jacob Was an Injured Mormon Trying to Find His Wife Image via Netflix

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AMC Networks announced today that the second season of the highly anticipated The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere Sunday, May 4 at 9pm Et/Pt on AMC and AMC+. The opening minutes of the eight-episode second season, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan as fan-favorite characters “Negan” and “Maggie,” were also released.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.

The series also stars Gaius Charles,...

Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott's modern war thriller starring Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and a whole cavalcade of great actors, has found a new streaming home. As of March 1, fans of the war genre have been able to stream the gritty and realistic movie on Netflix. The very same day, another great film by Ridley Scott was added to Netflix's library: Blade Runner: The Final Cut is available as well, giving Netflix users the chance to see the best Blade Runner version there is, and the only one Ridley Scott was in complete control of.

Based on the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down was written by Ken Nolan. The war movie follows the events that transpired in Somalia during the Battle of Mogadishu when a helicopter carrying American soldiers was shot down in an area dominated by militia members loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

When the Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (check out our review Here) had its premiere in June of 2023, it became the biggest cable drama debut of the year, drawing in 683,000 viewers as it aired on AMC, with viewers of the simulcasts on BBC America and IFC, plus replays, boosting the number of viewers to 1.12 million. So it’s no surprise that we’re getting The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 – and AMC has announced that it’s going to premiere on May 4th!

AMC has also unveiled a 2 minute clip of season 2’s opening scene, and you can check that out right here:

We are Back in the New York groove and it all starts here.

Watch the first scene of the all-new season of #DeadCity. Premiering Sunday, May 4, exclusively on @AMC_TV and @AMCPlus. pic.twitter.com/zE9q0Obgp3

— The Walking Dead (@WalkingDead_AMC) February 25, 2025

Eli Jorné,...

Since its television debut in 2010, fans have never been able to get enough of The Walking Dead universe. The flagship series lasted for 11 seasons and gave birth to several spin-offs, including Dead City, which serves as a direct sequel to the main saga. Premiering in 2023, fans were reunited with Maggie (Lauren Cohen) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they navigated a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, and now they're back for a second season, which officially returns to AMC on May 4, 2025.

The news came yesterday during IGN Fan Fest, and on hand to discuss the upcoming season were Morgan and Cohen – who also serve as executive producers – and Scott Gimple, Chief Content Officer of The Walking Dead universe at AMC. While Season 1 of Dead City had a clear antagonist by way of Željko Ivanek as The Croat, that isn't the case in Season 2, which Gimple said has a lot going on in it.

AMC’s The Walking Dead: Dead City season two finally has a premiere date. The first six-episode season debuted in June 2023, and the eight-episode season two is now set to arrive on May 4, 2025 at 9pm Et/Pt.

The premiere date announcement was accompanied by the release of the first two minutes of season two.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror,” reads AMC’s synopsis. “In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated...

Negan and Maggie’s adventures in a zombie-infested New York City will continue in “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 2, and AMC has announced the premiere date today.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 2 premieres May 4 on AMC and AMC+.

The opening minutes of the eight-episode second season, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan as fan-favorite characters Negan and Maggie, were also released.

Watch the opening sequence for Season 2 below, wherein zombies power NYC back to life!

“The Walking Dead: Dead City” follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

In Season 2, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine,...

AMC Networks announced today that the second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere on Sunday, May 4 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on AMC and AMC+.

The opening minutes of the eight-episode second season, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan as fan-favorite characters Negan and Maggie, were also released.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.

In addition to Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan,...

AMC has revealed when The Walking Dead: Dead City will return.

As announced by AMC Networks, Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, May 4, at 9pm Et/Pt. The opening minutes of the Season 2 premiere have also been made available to watch online. The video can be viewed below.

The Walking Dead spinoff series focuses primarily on returning franchise characters Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Given the history between the two, they make unlikely allies, reluctantly teaming up with the two facing the undead (and other threats) in New York. Sons of Anarchy star Kim Coates will serve as the big bad for Season 2, with other stars including Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek, Mahina Anne Marie Napoleon, Lisa Emery, Logan Kim, and Dascha Polanco.

The official synopsis for the new season of Dead City reads, "The Walking Dead: Dead City...

Last year, Netflix inked a deal with AMC to bring some of their most popular shows to the biggest streaming platform in the world, and thus far, the partnership has proven beneficial to both parties. AMC series like Dark Winds, A Discovery of Witches, and The Walking Dead became streaming hits once again on Netflix, entering the Top 10 charts long after their premiere. That being said, there was one show that was expected to hit Netflix last month that, for whatever reason, is now coming out in March: The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Per What's on Netflix, Dead City will now make its streaming debut on Netflix on March 17, 2025. Neither AMC nor Netflix commented on the shift in programming, but it's pretty easy to figure out why it happened. The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 is expected to drop in either April or May, making the timing perfect for those...

Taylor Sheridan has made a name for himself in the TV industry as the creator and writer of a plethora of hit shows like Yellowstone, its prequels 1883 and 1923, Special Ops: Lioness, Tulsa King, and the recent drama Landman starring Billy Bob Thornton as a Texas oil man (which even Stephen King is a fan of). His scripts also made it to the big screen with the 2015 movie Sicario and his project Hell or High Water (2016), which was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. However, before Sheridan became a powerhouse behind the scenes, he was an aspiring actor. After a few guest spots in the mid-aughts, he finally landed a recurring role on the hit FX biker drama Sons of Anarchy.

Soa, which ran from 2008 to 2014, follows members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Originals (abbreviated Samcro). Created by Kurt Sutter and set...

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The following contains spoilers for American Primeval, now streaming on Netlflix.

James Gunn has confused fans about what's being kept for the new Dcu. He said that Creature Commandos Season 1 is where the reboot starts, although certain elements from The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker (both of which he helmed) will be retained. As polarizing as that is, there were bright spots from that era which Zack Snyder kickstarted. One of them is the underrated Captain Boomerang.

Played by Australian actor Jai Courtney, the Dceu's Boomerang was the most unhinged member of the Suicide Squad, surpassing that same energy from the comics and other DC media. Interestingly, Courtney plays a similarly maniacal character in what is arguably Netflix's best Western: American Primeval. In the 2025 series, Courtney's character is a lot more sadistic as a merciless leader.

If you grew up in the 1990s, then the name Susan Powter might seem familiar to you. She was the fitness guru with short, spikey blonde hair that became famous for her weight-loss infomercials where her catchphrase, "Stop the insanity," became a cultural phenomenon. These days, she's an Uber Eats driver living in Las Vegas, but back then, she was one of the most recognizable faces in the world and, according to her, was once courted by Kevin Costner to star in his box office flop, Waterworld.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Powter – who was once so famous she was given her own talk show – says she received a phone call from Costner at the height of her popularity. The call came whilst she was in the middle of a beauty appointment in L.A., and, as she remembers it, Costner was understanding when she turned him down.

"He was about to shoot that movie.

Guillermo del Toro’s 2015 gothic romance movie, Crimson Peak, has a new streaming home. As of Feb. 1, it is now available on Peacock.

Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Jim Beaver and Charlie Hunnam. Set in Victorian England, the movie follows budding author Edith Cushing (Wasikowska) as she visits a remote Gothic mansion with her new husband (Hiddleston) and his sister (Chastain). Once there, Edith finds herself haunted by ghostly visions and soon realizes there is more to her new romance than meets the eye.

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The following contains spoilers for American Primeval, now streaming on Netflix.

In contrast with many westerns, Netflix's American Primeval has many arcs intersecting. The main beat focuses on Taylor Kitsch's Isaac and his mission: escorting Sara, her son Devin, and a Shoshone girl, Two Moons, to Crook Springs to meet Devin's rich father. This leads them to clash with native tribes, as well as violent white people who either want to rob them, or flex power in the American Frontier of 1857.

Another big arc revolves around Utah's governor, Brigham Young. This figure is based on a real-world character, who is all about playing politics and duping the cabinet in Washington. Young has a Mormon militia, a lot of territory, wealth and resources to ensure his Latter Day Saints church is a movement to be reckoned with.

American Primeval recently premiered on Netflix, and since then, it’s managed to garner quite a fanbase. Set in 1857, the series chronicles a number of stories that all converge in America’s Utah territory during the turbulent time of westward expansion. A dark western thriller, the series showcases ongoing clashes between the U.S. Army, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Lds), and multiple indigenous tribes. The catalyst of the series begins with the Mormon-sanctioned Mountain Meadows Massacre and then continues to display Brigham Young’s (Kim Coates) efforts to control Utah outside the confines of the United States, no matter the cost.

While the series also tells the story of Sara (Betty Gilpin), her young son Devin (Preston Mota), and their reluctant guide Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), who is helping them in their efforts to travel west, American Primeval's overarching narrative focuses on the bloody and...

American Primeval is the most popular Netflix show of 2025 so far! It's still early, but fans want to know if American Primeval season 2 is happening and what's next for the series from writer Mark L. Smith and director Peter Berg.

American Primeval starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch premiered on Netflix on Jan. 9 and has been a huge hit for Netflix since then. The series follows Sara (Gilpin) on her journey West in 1857 with her young son, Devin (Preston Mota). After Sara and Devin are caught up in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Isaac Reed (Kitsch) tries to lead them to safety, but dangers lurk in these lands. The series was inspired by real events.

While the American Primeval ending doesn't necessarily set up a clear second season, there's definitely some story left to be explored in American Primeval season 2. It doesn't sound like Berg and Smith are interested in taking the story in that direction.

Since its Netflix debut on January 9, American Primeval has been making headlines as one of the most brutal, gritty must-watch Western sagas ever to grace our television screens.

Taking place in 1857 Utah, the series follows fugitive mother Sara Roswell (Betty Gilpin) and her son Devin (Preston Mota) as they navigate the lawless terrain with their guide, Isaac Reed (Taylor Kitsch). It depicts the bloody, violent collision of early American settlers with indigenous tribes, cultists, religion, bounty hunters, the U.S. government, and ruthless ole Mother Nature herself.

In the wake of its success, questions abound as to whether the story is based on actual events. The answer, my dear friends, is yes, American Primeval is based on the true and deadly story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. It also portrays real-life people. Director Peter Berg said he found inspiration for American Primeval in 2020 after reading a story about the Utah War.

Fans of Sons of Anarchy should check out Netflix's new miniseries American Primeval because of Kim Coates. Sons of Anarchy aired on FX from 2008 to 2014. All seven seasons of Sons of Anarchy were critically-acclaimed, and the show currently has a score of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes (via Rotten Tomatoes). Sons of Anarchy follows the members of a motorcycle gang which operates in the fictional town of Charming, California. The cast of Sons of Anarchy includes Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal, Theo Rossi, Maggie Siff, Ryan Hurst, and the aforementioned Coates.

Several actors from the show have gone on to have impressive careers in Hollywood following the conclusion of Sons of Anarchy. Hunnam, for example, has starred in movies like King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and The Gentlemen. Rossi has also appeared in several projects, such as Netflix's hit Christmas action movie Carry-On and the critically-acclaimed DC show The Penguin.

Ever since Taylor Sheridan's 2015 hit Sicario debuted, he quickly became a critically revered multi-hyphenate in Hollywood. Award-winning films like Hell or High Water and his Yellowstone television empire soon followed, establishing the Texas native in the industry as a character-focused storyteller, notably ridding himself of writer's room constraints and breaking traditional, plot-driven rules. As his work garners continued praise, fans have turned their attention to his rise to fame. Before discovering his behind-the-scenes talent, Sheridan began his film career as an actor.

Despite becoming a Western staple of modern film and TV, his first claim to fame was FX's outlaw, biker-gang drama Sons of Anarchy. Created and directed by Kurt Sutter, the show follows lead Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) as he navigates the titular club (often referred to by the acronym Samcro) after his father's death. Although Samcro protects its Californian hometown from various threats, it also runs an illegal arms business.

[This story contains spoilers from Netflix’s American Primeval.]

“We do believe that people, if they want to understand where we’re at today, should look at where we were then,” director Peter Berg told a small room of reporters last October, as he, executive producer Eric Newman and Indigenous Consultant Julie O’Keefe, gathered at Netflix’s L.A. office as part of an early look at their project American Primeval.

The Western drama, which debuted Jan. 9 on Netflix, is less interested in Hollywood’s historically rose-colored, inspirational, adventurous — and sometimes even melodramatic — telling of America’s founding. Instead, the six-episode miniseries is more focused on how people and their explicable and inexplicable violence shaped a moment in U.S. history that ultimately led to the forging of a nation.

Set within one of the more brutal and uncompromising periods of American history — the 19th Century Westward expansion — the show depicts the run-up to...

[This story contains mild spoilers from Netflix’s American Primeval.]

In a television landscape where Taylor Sheridan has largely cornered the market on stories about western expansion with Yellowstone and its spinoffs 1883 and 1923, American Primeval has stood out for its exploration of the Utah Territory and the role settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Lds) played in halting migration to the area. The efforts of which culminated in the gruesome 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in the Netflix miniseries, that left some 120 travelers dead.

The six-episode Western drama written and created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, follows the journey of Sara (Betty Gilpin), a woman on the run, who seeks out a guide at Fort Bridger in Wyoming to assist her in transporting her young son Devin (Preston Mota) to his father in Missouri. It’s at the fort founded by Jim Bridger (Shea Whigham) that she encounters Isaac Reed...

American Primeval episode 6, the series finale, begins shortly after the events of episode 5. Virgil (Jai Courtney) and the bounty hunters finally caught up with Sara (Betty Gilpin). Virgil ties her up on a horse and heads for Fort Bridger, trying to put as much distance between themselves and Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) as possible.

Elsewhere, Abish (Saura Lightfoot-Leon) has convinced Red Feather (Derek Hinkey) and the Shoshone that the Mormons led by Wild Bill (Alex Breaux) and James Wolsey (Joe Tippett) will not stop looking for her until she is killed. At this point, she is the only remaining survivor from the attack that they know about. She's the one who could pin the attack on Brigham Young's forces, so they need to eliminate her. After they wiped out the US Army forces, they'll be heading to the Shoshone next.

Isaac rescues Sara and kills Virgil

In the first scene of...

The Walking Dead original series ran between 2010 and 2022, and many characters became so beloved that they earned their own spinoff series. With more shows to come, a recent spinoff is a major hit on Netflix.

After the conclusion of the original The Walking Dead series, fans got a chance to see one of the most anticipated reunions: Rick and Michonne. In 2024, the two beloved characters got their own spin-off showing the aftermath of Rick's alleged death in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. After its recent release on Netflix, the series is already a hit on the streaming service, as FlixPatrol reports The Ones Who Live is in the second spot in the top 10.

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Actors Dane DeHaan and Kim Coates have performed in their fair share of acclaimed films and television. Both known for their intensity and dedication to craft, DeHaan astounded audiences in popular films like The Amazing Spider-Man and Oppenheimer, as Coates won over America with his role as Tig Trager on Sons of Anarchy. Now, they bring their fierce passion and dedication to Peter Berg’s American Primeval, an epic new Western on Netflix. In the miniseries, DeHaan plays pioneer Jacob Pratt and Coates as prominent historical figure Brigham Young.

American Primeval episode 4 ends with the Mormons learning the US Army is about to attack thanks to a traitor in the US Army's ranks. We know Wild Bill and Brigham Young will not let that happen, and it sets up a major showdown between the Mormons and the US Army in American Primeval episode 5.

In addition, Devin (Preston Mota) just broke his leg after getting it stomped on by a horse. Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), Sara (Betty Gilpin), and Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier) take shelter in a convenient cabin while Devin heals.

Overall, American Primeval episode 5 is the shortest episode of the season. You'll notice this recap is notably shorter, as well, compared to the other American Primeval recaps. While there are some major events, the penultimate episode moves the many pieces around for clashes in the finale.

The Mormons attack Captain Dellinger and the US Army forces

In the first scene of American Primeval,...

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American Primeval is a Western thriller drama series created by Mark L. Smith. The Netflix series is set in 1857 during the Utah War, and it revolves around the violent feuds and schemes to gain control over the American West. American Primeval stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Derek Hinkey, Joe Tippett, Jai Courtney, Preston Mota, Shawnee Pourier, and Shea Whigham. So, if you loved the gritty Western backdrop, thrilling story, and compelling characters in American Primeval, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Hell on Wheels is a Western thriller drama series created by Joe and Tony Gayton. The AMC series follows Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who joins the railroad construction to find the Union soldiers who killed his wife and son during the Civil War.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for American Primeval.

Netflix's epic period Western series American Primeval might be making a mistake in potentially releasing a second season. American Primeval was written by Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Revenant with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Peter Berg directs all six episodes of American Primeval. Taylor Kitsch leads an ensemble cast as Isaac Reed, which features Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Shea Whigham, Lucas Neff, and Kim Coates as Brigham Young. In addition to Young, American Primeval alters several real-life historical details and figures.

American Primeval uniquely blends brutal and violent elements of the horror genre with the classic Western. Despite its 59% Rotten Tomatoes score, it earned an 86% audience score and has been in Netflix's Top 10 TV Shows in the United States since it was released on January 9, 2025. Kitsch previously starred in the Peter Berg film Lone Survivor alongside Mark Wahlberg...

American Primeval raises the stakes in episode 4! Halfway through the season, the main storylines continue to converge. War is coming to the West, and it's just a matter of time before the shooting begins.

American Primeval episode 4 begins shortly after the events of episode 3. Sara (Betty Gilpin) and Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) continue their trek through the snowy mountains as they make for Crooks Springs while bounty hunters follow. Elsewhere, Brigham Young (Kim Coates) and his Mormons continue to carve out space to practice their religion by force. Abish (Saura Lightfoot-Leon) begins to settle in and understand the Shoshone.

Bridger clashes with Brigham Young again

At Fort Bridger, Brigham Young (Kim Coates) continues his pursuit of the fort by getting into some hijinks with Jim Bridger (Shea Whigham) and his pigs. Wild Bill (Alex Breaux) tries to buy Bridger's pigs, Bridger isn't about to let that happen. He nearly chops off Bill's foot with a shovel.

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American Primeval episode 3 continues the cat-and-mouse game between Sara (Betty Gilpin), Devin (Preston Mota), Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier), and Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) and those pursuing them.

The third episode slows the pace down a tad as the different groups move around the region, setting up many battles to come between Brigham Young and the Mormons, Jim Bridger of Fort Bridger, Red Feather and the Shoshone people, Sara and Isaac's group, and Virgil's band of outlaws.

Sara, Devin, and Isaac are caught in a trap American Primeval. Betty Gilpin as Sara Rowell in Episode 103 of American Primeval. Cr. Matt Kennedy/Netflix © 2023 | Netfli

After Isaac takes out a camp and steals their horses at the end of episode 2, the party continues their way toward Crooks Springs, but Virgin (Jai Courtney) and his outlaws are close behind.

The group camps along the river, and we learn that Devin's father doesn't know that they are coming.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for American Primeval.

The eerie French family in Netflix's epic period Western series American Primeval draws comparisons to the cannibalistic family in a classic 1977 Wes Craven horror film. American Primeval was written by Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Revenant with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Peter Berg directs all six episodes of American Primeval. Taylor Kitsch leads an ensemble cast as Isaac Reed, which features Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Shea Whigham, Lucas Neff, and Kim Coates as Brigham Young. In addition to Young, American Primeval alters several real-life historical details and figures.

Despite its 59% Rotten Tomatoes score, it earned an 86% audience score and has been in Netflix's Top 10 TV Shows in the United States since it was released on January 9, 2025. Kitsch previously starred in the Peter Berg film Lone Survivor alongside Mark Wahlberg and Berg's classic television series Friday Night Lights.

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Netflix is riding into the new year with one of the most brutal depictions of expansion in the American West thanks to a relentlessly intense mini-series called American Primeval. Created and written by Mark L. Smith, with direction by Peter Berg, American Primeval revolves around Sara (Betty Gilpin) and her son, Devin (Preston Mota) traveling through harsh and unforgiving territory with a survivalist, Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), to escape a grim fate and find a new home. While making the journey, they experience violent collisions with cults, religious zealots, cutthroats, and lawmakers willing to kill to create a new world.

To mark the arrival of American Primeval, we spoke with the show’s director, Peter Berg, the Indigenous Consultant Julie O’Keefe, and lead actors Betty Gilpin (Sara), Taylor Kitsch (Isaac), Dane DeHaan (Jacob Pratt), Kim Coates (Bringham Young), Derek Hinkey (Red Feather), and Saura Lightfoot-Leon (Abish Pratt) about their respective roles,...

If you're one of the millions of people who watched Netflix's newest hit American Primeval over the weekend, then you already know how brutal the series can be at certain points. Should you have yet to see it, just know that it's a show that doesn't flinch when it comes to detailing the fight between religion and culture in the American West, and even goes so far as to show one character being (partially) scalped during the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Episode 1. Now, actor Dane DeHaan reveals what it was like being on the receiving end of a knife during that gut-wrenching sequence.

Speaking with Decider about American Primeval, DeHann – who portrays Jacob Pratt – dished on what it was like filming the scalping, and playing its aftermath. "It's intense to be scalped," he said, adding that the moment was one of his favorites to shoot in the series, if...

American Primeval debuted at the top of the Netflix television chart, with the series quickly becoming a hit with audiences despite mixed critical reviews (MovieWeb's Matt Mahler gave the series a near-perfect review). Created by Mark L. Smith and executive produced by director Peter Berg, the show offers a dark and brutal look at frontier life, specifically in the region of Utah during the 1850s when violent conflicts erupted between the Mormons and the U.S. government, with different settlers and Indigenous communities caught in the crossfire. The entirety of the six-episode series premiered on January 9, and although labeled a miniseries, there may be hope for a second installment.

In an interview with Decider, Peter Berg, who directed all episodes of the series, reflected on his time during production and talked about the conditions that would bring him back for a second season, or at the very least would help to...

The entire nine-episode first season of American Primeval recently dropped on Netflix. Following the release, director Pete Berg explained why the violent clashes between various characters vying for control of the American West, was necessary.

"One of the themes [series creator] Mark L. Smith and I wanted to explore was man's inherently violent nature," Berg told Collider when asked to elaborate on a specific sequence in Episode 1. "Certainly, if you go back to the origins of this country and start studying and documenting the history of violence committed by humans upon humans up to the present day that we're living in today, and certainly from the origin story of America and other countries - almost all of them - we are a violent species."

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American Primeval, a six-part miniseries on Netflix, stars Shae Whigham, Taylor Kitsch, Kim Coates, and Betty Gilpin as it explores the gritty and harsh life on the American frontier. The Western is based in part on real events that took place in Utah during the 1850s and incorporates many of the same brutality and fortitude exhibited by the people who lived through them.

The bloodshed in American Primeval may not be a surprise to fans of show creator and writer Mark L. Smith. Smith co-wrote 2015's The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio with director Alejandro G. Inarritu. Like American Primeval, The Revenant was also based on the life of a real frontiersman named Hugh Glass and featured acts of extreme violence, notably the famous bear mauling scene.

Director and executive producer of American Primeval, Peter Berg, and the other makers of the miniseries went to great lengths to ensure a level of authenticity,...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for American Primeval & Bone Tomahawk.

Few Westerns, particularly those set in the Old West, are as brutally violent as Bone Tomahawk and the new Netflix series American Primeval. American Primeval was written by Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Revenant with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Peter Berg directs all six episodes of American Primeval. Taylor Kitsch leads an ensemble cast as Isaac Reed, which features Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Shea Whigham, Lucas Neff, and Kim Coates as Brigham Young. In addition to Young, American Primeval alters several real-life historical details and figures.

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There are several other movies and shows similar to Netflix's epic period Western series American Primeval. American Primeval was written by Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Revenant with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Peter Berg directs all six episodes of American Primeval. Taylor Kitsch leads an ensemble cast as Isaac Reed, which features Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Shea Whigham, Lucas Neff, and Kim Coates as Brigham Young. In addition to Young, American Primeval alters several real-life historical details and figures.

American Primeval uniquely blends brutal and violent elements of the horror genre with the classic Western. Despite its 59% Rotten Tomatoes score, it earned an 86% audience score and has been in Netflix's Top 10 TV Shows in the United States since it was released on January 9, 2025. Kitsch previously starred in the Peter Berg film Lone Survivor alongside Mark Wahlberg and Berg's classic television series Friday Night Lights.