When Decider asked Taylor Kitsch if any of his many, many American Primeval fight scenes stood out to him in memory, he initially said, “No,” prompting co-star Betty Gilpin to giggle. Then, he admitted, one stuck out for a very painful reason.

Set during the Utah War of 1857, Peter Berg's limited series lays out a world where love conquers little, indifference is the only path to survival, and wanting anything will only bring death that much faster.

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.