Netflix's New Violent Western Series Set to 'Eat Yellowstone' in 2024
No matter how high the expectations are, we should look at the situation soberly. But who knows, maybe Yellowstone really will lose the battle for the title of best Western series.
Summary
- Yellowstone is not only one of the most popular, but also one of the highest quality Westerns, but the writing deteriorated somewhat by the fifth season.
- Recently, Netflix presented a new Western show, American Primeval, which will be released sometime in 2024.
- American Primeval will star Taylor Kitsch, and it already promises to be better than any Taylor Sheridan project.
Of all the movies and TV series in the Western genre that have become increasingly popular in recent years, none has the courage to challenge the series written by Taylor Sheridan. His Yellowstone and its spin-offs are not romantic tales of bounty hunters and bandits meeting on the American frontier. On the contrary, they are frank and gritty stories about a family and its attempts to survive in the harsh realities, while trying to preserve the traditional way of life in ways that are not at all benign.
Yellowstone is a story about the decline of the cowboy way of life. And while there are still several spin-offs to come, including one that Sheridan himself worked on, Yellowstone, like the whole Dutton family, is also heading into the sunset, as the second half of Season 5, scheduled for November 2024, will be the last.
New, even more explicit and violent shows will take its place. For example, a new American Primeval, which is already being touted as the killer of the entire Sherridanverse, will be released on Netflix this year.
What's Netflix's New Show About?
While Yellowstone is a Neo-Western that focuses on the clash between the Old West and the New West, American Primeval focuses on the birth of the American West and all the horrors that came with it.
While plot details are still scarce, we are apparently in for an incredibly bloody tale of clashing cultures fighting for control of the uncharted territories of the frontier. The director and executive producer is Pete Berg of Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor fame. Written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Overlord). Showrunner and co-executive producer is Eric Newman (Narcos, Griselda).
The series stars Taylor Kitsch, who previously worked with Berg on Friday Night Lights and with him and Newman on the Netflix miniseries Painkiller.
The series also stars Native American actor Tokala Black Elk, who also appeared in Yellowstone and 1883. Other cast members include Jai Courtney, Kyle Bradley Davis, Dane DeHaan, Betty Gilpin, Nick Hargrove, Derek Hinkey, Saura Lightfoot Leon, Preston Mota, Shawnee Pourier, Joe Tippett and Shea Whigham.
Yellowstone Killer or Another Passable Western?
The series hasn't even been released yet, and there's already a lot of hype surrounding it. Back in 2022, when the upcoming Western show was announced, JoBlo noted that 'Netflix is looking to eat Yellowstone’s prairie dog and beans with a Western series of its own design.'
ScreenRant, for example, picked up the hype the other day. After the first footage from the upcoming show appeared, the publication noted that 'Netflix has seemingly dedicated itself to replicating Yellowstone's success with American Primeval.'
But will the upcoming series really be a high-octane alternative to Yellowstone, which has become the most important series in the Western genre in recent years? Judging by the first look at American Primeval, it will indeed be gritty, not shying away from brutal and graphic scenes, and no less outspoken than Taylor Sheridan talking about the other side of the Wild West.
'I'm looking forward to taking viewers into the most dynamic, intense, and heart-pounding survival tale humanly possible. We are going into the belly of the beast,' Pete Berg told Tudum.
Well, we can definitely look forward to the new Yellowstone 'killer'. The series will consist of six episodes and is scheduled to premiere in 2024.
Source: JoBlo, ScreenRant, Tudum.