section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, American Primeval has a critic approval rating of 72% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Handsomely shot and thoroughly grim, American Primeval drives home its point about a nation's bone-deep savagery to persuasive, and sometimes deadening, effect". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 59 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) rates the show at 8.0/10 based on a weighted average of over 67,000 votes.
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, American Primeval has a critic approval rating of 72% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Handsomely shot and thoroughly grim, American Primeval drives home its point about a nation's bone-deep savagery to persuasive, and sometimes deadening, effect". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 59 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) rates the show at 8.0/10 based on a weighted average of over 67,000 votes.