In recent releases, Netflix has debuted a visceral action drama set during the bitter conflict over what would become the American West. American Primeval is set in a lawless land where multiple factions slaughter each other for control, the innocents take the brunt of the damage by being caught in the middle. Issac Reed, played by Tyler Kitsch, is a damaged and disheveled frontiersman who comes into the service of Sara Rowel, played by Betty Gilpin, a traveling mother who is secretly on the run for supposedly murdering her husband.