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.

But beyond that, there’s a patness to the tragedies that befall our characters in this episode that undermines the seriousness of the enterprise. Heroes, villains, and those in between — everyone who dies does so in pretty much exactly the dramatically appropriate or ironic way you’d expect.

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

After spending most of the episode successfully treating Devin’s badly infected leg wound and worrying about nearby wolves, Isaac nearly dies at the hands of a different animal entirely. Virgil and his bounty hunters have finally caught up with their quarry.

Peter Berg and Julie O'Keefe share their conditions for potentially returning for American Primeval season 2 after season 1's challenging shoot.

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,

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.