The director of "American Primeval" stops by IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about how he embarked on the toughest shoot of his career.

We don’t know yet! Netflix has yet to announce plans for a second season of American Primeval, but director and EP Peter Berg told Decider, he’s game — with a couple of caveats.

The latest historical series on Netflix is American Primeval, a gritty and violent six-parter which has brought renewed interest in the Western genre. Set in Wyoming and Utah 1857, American Primeval is set around real events;

In American Primeval episode 2, a major conflict between the US Government, Shoshone, and Brigham Young's Mormon Militia erupts.

In this episode alone, for example, Sara, Isaac, Devin, and Two Moons trudge their way through blinding snows on horseback, until one goes lame and stomps Devin’s leg to smithereens in its distress after Isaac tries and fails to shoot it to death.

Fans of Netflix’s American Primeval are eagerly awaiting updates on its future. The series follows a mother and son escaping their past while forming a found family in the harsh American West. Viewers are curious about the prospects for Season 2.

New Western series American Primeval is now streaming with all 6 episodes on Netflix. And I can tell you right now that this one is not for the faint of heart. You need to be able to handle violence in this bloody story that sees conflicts between Native Americans,

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.