The show's depiction of hood-wearing, sinister Mormons slaughtering emigrants, US Army troops and Shoshone people all within a few days is a sensationalized fabrication intended to 'entertain.'

When people don’t see themselves, their forebears, or their history reflected in contextualized and nuanced ways, it’s easy to find reason to not engage with the hard facts of the past rather than face them.

Netflix's American Primeval follows a fictionalized tale of the real-life Utah War of 1857, where many groups, including the Mormons, Piautes, and the US Government, were strategizing to seize control