You’re not the only one who watched American Primeval and now wants a second season. One of the first big TV hits of the new year was the Netflix show about the 1957 Utah War. Primeval, which stars Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), shows the Old West in an exciting and brutal way. Now, the creative team of Peter Berg (Painkiller) and Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) are looking for ways to keep the series moving forward.
“Fans are calling for season 2, and at the same time they’re saying, ‘Well, how could you possibly do a season 2 because everybody’s dead?'” Berg tells Esquire how hard it is to keep the series going. “And if you wait a year to do season 2, those kids that survive are going to all go through puberty and be unrecognizable. So, we’re figuring that out now.”
There aren’t many people who make it through all six episodes of American Primeval. Isaac, the main character played by Kitsch, dies in the last episode while protecting Sara (Betty Gilpin) and her son Devin (Preston Mora). Then Sara and Devon ride off into the sunset toward California. Besides Jim Bridger (Shea Whigham), the owner of Fort Bridger, these two are the only characters who make it to the end of the story.
Will American Primeval Season 2 Happen?
American Primeval might need a new cast and a look back into American past if it comes back for a second season. An anthology series isn’t out of the question. Berg and Kitsch might also come back for a spinoff. No matter how American Primeval comes back, the director says, “We definitely want to do a season 2.”
“You just absolutely never know,” Berg says. “We had a lot of challenges. All the strikes shut us down. Then, the night of our premiere, the Los Angeles fires broke out. I was like, well, that’s a fitting end to American Primeval: a big fire and a horrible tragedy. I just sort of threw my hands up to the gods.”
“You want to win awards and all this, but somewhere in there, there has to be a genuine love of the game— a love of that creative experience,” Berg continues. “And we already won that.”