Audiences are devouring the grisly Netflix miniseries “American Primeval,” a work of historical fiction centered around the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormon militiamen in southwestern ...

Producers openly admit the six-part series dropping Thursday is highly fictionalized. It centers around 1857 involving the Utah War, Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken issue with a Netflix series it calls "dangerously misleading." ...

Netflix's "American Primeval" has drawn criticism from the LDS Church for its portrayal of Brigham Young and historical ...

Kim Coates as Brigham Young and Shea Whigham as Jim Bridger (image via Matt Kennedy/Netflix Tudum) Brigham Young was a hugely influential figure in 19th-century America. Known as the "Mormon Moses ...

Netflix is releasing a new six-episode series of fictionalized history on Thursday morning that includes Brigham Young and uses the Mountain Meadows Massacre as what the streamer calls "the ...

Brigham Young doesn’t die in American Primeval and with good reason. In real life, Young wouldn’t perish until 1877. That’s a good twenty years after the events of the Netflix show.

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Netflix via email for comment. A statue of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, outside the historic ...