T he perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre have spent much of American Primeval talking about tying up loose ends. Now it’s the series’ turn. American Primeval’s pen

This episode fleshes out the world these characters inhabit, as well as the lives some of them have led. The key figure here is Isaac, the tracker who rescued Sara Holloway and her son Devin from certain death at the hands of the Mormon militia the Nauvoo Legion and their indigenous allies.

In the first episode of American Primeval, Sara (Betty Gilpin) journeys West to find her husband, but things do not go according to the plan.

This series continues to offer the broadest possible array of horrible things that could happen to someone in the American West.

When we left it off, the first episode of American Primeval had just depicted a bloody massacre of settlers, and the second episode of the Netflix historical epic continues the violence. The series, set in Wyoming and Utah in 1957,