"Yeah, I mean, we need it so much," Gilpin said, more sincerely. "We deserve it, as the viewers, to have one moment of romance and joy in this crazy world."

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.

A new Netflix series breaks "with the historical record in ways that may bemuse the average viewer but will likely displease any Latter-day Saints," a New York Times reviewer says.