There are plenty of Netflix viewers on the hunt for the next thing to watch, and the thriller series American Primeval sounds like it's engaging viewing.

The director of "American Primeval" stops by IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about how he embarked on the toughest shoot of his career.

His dad, Kent Bateman, was a film and TV director, and as the apple does not fall far from the tree, Jason Bateman himself has made a name for himself as a talented actor and director. Adding to it is his wife,

Berg also responds to criticisms of the representation of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and the line he wouldn’t cross when it came to violence depicted in the events surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Netflix’s new historical drama “American Primeval” is currently the No. 1 series on the site. But how much of the show and its characters are based on the 1857 Utah War?

Despite arriving just four days ago, season 2 of XO Kitty has already been unseated in Netflix’s Top 10 list by the show it originally dethroned. That would be American Primeval, the brutal miniseries that has performed extremely well on Netflix since it was released all the way back on January 9,

The Netflix show The Night Agent features an all-star cast. Today on Collider, we discuss how the actors trained for their roles in the action series.

In 2004, director Peter Berg recruited Texan post-rock greats Explosions In The Sky to score his cinematic adaptation of the book Friday Night Lights. When Friday Night Lights became a (great) TV series,

Jim Bridger, played by Shea Whigham, was a real life pioneer who built the town of Fort Bridger, which features in the series and was a real town. Brigham Young, played by Kim Coates, was also a real life figure. He was the head of the Mormon church at the time and had his own army known as the Nauvoo Legion.

Ben Affleck was spotted returning to his Pacific Palisades home hours after he evacuated the mansion and fled to ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s house due to the rapidly spreading Los Angeles wildfires. The Good Will Hunting star, 52, could be seen driving back to his $20 million house, which was miraculously still standing after the fires...

Outside of Fort Bridger owner Jim Bridger (Shea Whigham), they are some of the only characters who survive to the end of the series.Will American Primeval Return for Season 2?If American Primeval returns for another season,

American Primeval is actually based on real events, with the series focusing on the conflict between the Natives, pioneers, Mormon soldiers and the U.S. government in 1857. However the ending has left many viewers divided, but either way, it’s an absolutely tragic one, with American Primeval director Peter Berg speaking out about *those* deaths.