‘American Primeval’ Review: Brutal, Bleak Western Series Is Exhausting to Watch It’s important to desanitize the Hollywood fantasy of the Wild West and confront our own history. But this Netflix series is grim to the point of cruelty. By Dylan Roth
Climate Change Sets the Stage for the Dreary, Violent Western ‘Desolate’ 'Desolate' claims to be an old-style western jazzed up with new-style ideas, but it's nothing new and the pulverizing violence has been done before. By Rex Reed
Puccini’s Wild West Opera Will Shatter Your Heart (Even With the Met’s Subpar Staging) By James Jorden