However, “American Primeval,” a new limited series on Netflix from Mark L. Smith — the writer of the Academy Award-winning “The Revenant” — takes a different approach. Much like how ...

Heroes are in short supply in the Western hellscape painted by “American Primeval.” Many have recently commented on the wild historical inaccuracies of which the Netflix miniseries is guilty.

P. J. E. Peebles is professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize for his research on cosmology. Peebles is the author of Cosmology's Century.