American Primeval: Netflix’s new series destabilized Squid Game

The new series of “American Primeval” managed within a few days to win the first place in popular platform viewers’ preferences in our country, destabilizing the second season of the series – phenomenon “” that caused frenzy worldwide with the first cycle. Netflix’s Western series, six episodes, scripted by Mark L. Smith, is based on tragic events that have marked American history, and also becomes a “mix” of fictional characters and true faces with the background of Utah’s early 1800s war. CORVERSE The journey of the series’ main protagonists to the west to find a better life, did not actually happen and, so, Sara Rowell (Betty Gilpin) her son Devin (Preston Mota), Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) who grew up in the Shoshone tribe (indigenous Americans) and the young girl (Two Moons) played by Shawnee Pourier are fantastic characters. However, the series director, Pete Berg drew inspiration for creating the series from the actual massacre in the Mountain Meadows region of southern Utah (7–11 September 1857) that we see at the end of the first episode. In September 1857, a caravan of immigrants traveling from Arkansas to California was attacked by some 50–60 local militiamen Mormonus (The Church of Jesus Christ of the Most recent Days Saints) who had disguised themselves as natives with the help of the Paiute Indians. CORVERSE Although in the series, the violent scenes of the battle unfold within a few minutes, however, in fact, the conflict lasted a total of five days. Since the bloody attack, some 120 men and women of the Baker – Fancher party who had stationed in the area to rest, and only seventeen children who were 6 years old and younger, managed to escape. Mormons, led by Brigham Young, played in the series by Kim Coates, had created their own army, called the “Novo Legion” (Ilinois) fearing that the U.S. government troops, were to attack them for them to oust them from Utah territory and that they would lose their lands. Jim Bridger, played by Shea Whigham, was a commercial station settler in Fort Bridger, which is a real city. Also, a true face was Wild Bill Hickman (Alex Breaux), who was a member of the Navo League. However, Winter Bird, played by Irene Bedard as leader of the Shoshone tribe is a fictional character, but has some elements from a true Indian leader.