Taylor Sheridan Meets ‘Ex Machina’ in New Trailer for Netflix’s Sci-Fi Western
Netflix has released a trailer for *Bass X Machina*, a steampunk animated Western that reimagines historical lawman Bass Reeves in a science-fiction setting. The series puts Reeves in a conflict involving a Confederate scientist and advanced machines, while he tries to protect his family and uphold justice.
Voiced by Brian Tyree Henry, Bass is portrayed as a solitary bounty hunter shaped by his experiences in the Civil War. The trailer features mechanical enemies, supernatural forces and a renewed threat of war; the series is presented as an action-focused reworking of Reeves’s story, following the earlier *Lawmen: Bass Reeves* drama.
- Netflix has released a trailer for animated Western *Bass X Machina*.
- Brian Tyree Henry voices Bass Reeves.
- The story combines the Civil War era with steampunk technology.
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Bass Reeves was a 19th-century lawman who became one of the first Black deputy US marshals west of the Mississippi. He worked in the years after the Civil War, when the United States was still dealing with its aftermath and slavery had only recently been abolished.
The series recasts Reeves in a steampunk Western, a style that mixes frontier settings with imagined machinery. It places him against a Confederate scientist and advanced machines as he tries to protect his family and pursue justice.
The story follows an earlier television drama about Reeves, but shifts his history into science fiction and animation. Its imagined conflict draws on real tensions from the post-war period while adding supernatural elements.