“Felt like I was watching the Jurassic Park “: 1 Utterly Nonsensical Scene in Netflix’s American Primeval Proves Its Success Isn’t Without Flaws
- American Primeval, a gritty Western show about America's past, premiered on Netflix earlier this month.
- One particular scene from American Primeval is making no sense to fans at all.
- Mark L. Smith has nailed it once again with this new series as his success streak keeps on going.
American Primeval is the latest entry in the long list of Westerns, but it is not the kind where people can be seen donning cowboy hats or lone gunslingers trying to fight evil for their good. Instead, this new series has a lot of gritty realism to it and even shows fictionalized versions of some historical events in the 19th century.
Critics and audiences are quite impressed with the show. It is currently one of the most-watched series on Netflix, but this does not cancel out some of the minor flaws that some of the scenes seem to have. While the intense and raw storytelling is exactly how it should be if not better, one particular scene had fans rolling their eyes.
A scene from Episode 6 of American Primeval has left fans complaining
On the surface, American Primeval is a Western miniseries that sheds light on the violent past of early America. It is set in 1857 during the Utah War and centers on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At its core, the show is all about survival because, in those lawless lands, there is no safe haven, and innocence and tranquility have to give up in the face of hatred and brutality.
The show opens with a mother, Sara Rowell (Betty Galpin), and her son, Devin (Preston Mota) running away from their past in hopes of going to Crooks Springs in search of Devin’s father. However, their plans of doing so are overturned as they keep encountering one danger after another along the way. Their only hope is Isaac Reed (Taylor Kitsch), a mountain man raised by the Shoshone.
Unfortunately, the people hunting down Sara, a wanted fugitive, catch up with her and kidnap her in Episode 5. The sixth episode opens with Isaac killing the rest of the men left at the cabin where he had taken shelter along with Devin, Sara, and Two Moons, a rebellious young Indigenous woman who is also a mute refugee.
Isaac has to leave Devin and Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier) back at the cabin to go and rescue Sara. When it gets dark outside, the horses outside the cabin suddenly start whinnying and a pack of wolves try to break inside the cabin. They succeed and attack Two Moons who struggles hard to fight it back. Ultimately, Devin picks up the gun and shoots one of the wolves.
This is the scene that one Redditor was unimpressed with. One of them even wrote that the scene felt like one from a Jurassic Park film.
Their complaint seems logical because there were plenty of dead men outside the cabin for the wolves to feed upon. Not to mention that the horses could have easily kicked out the wolves. So, the fact that these creatures would take the risk of going close to humans just for food does not seem very sensible.
American Primeval is Eric Newman’s sixth project that has made it big on Netflix
Mark L. Smith wrote and created American Primeval, while Peter Berg directed all 6 episodes. Besides Berg and Smith, the show has also been executive-produced by Eric Newman and Alexander H. Gayner. This is Newman’s sixth series to have landed the top position on Netflix’s Global Top 10.
Newman has been one of the masterminds behind some of the best series on the streamer, including Griselda, Painkiller, The Watcher, True Story, and Narcos: Mexico Season 3. All of these shows had once occupied the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Global Top 10.
Smith, who wrote the series, is most widely known for penning the script of Leonardo DiCaprio‘s epic Western drama The Revenant, which won 3 Academy Awards out of the 12 it was nominated for. He is also the scribe of last year’s disaster film, Twisters starring Glen Powell as one of the male leads.
