American Primeval (Netflix) portrays the Old West as such a hellhole that it makes Taylor Sheridan’s rugged Westerns (Yellowstone, 1883) look like an episode of Escape to the Country. It gives us the good,

However, it saps anything resembling wistfulness from its Hollywood Western roots, complicating its chances of cornering the post-Yellowstone market (alongside the latter's many spin-offs). What's left is the husk of a beloved genre,

The Revenant is one of my favorite movies of all time, blending historical fact and fiction with memorable action and characters, with grim realism tying the story together. So I was excited to learn that one of the film's writers,