What follows is traumatic episode that culminates in Sara “finding her inner ‘American primeval,'” according to series star Betty Gilpin. Although Isaac Reed must come to Sara and Devin’s rescue many times in the first few episodes of American Primeval,

Set during the Utah War of 1857, Peter Berg's limited series lays out a world where love conquers little, indifference is the only path to survival, and wanting anything will only bring death that much faster.

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.