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 Season 5 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8KPsyf6-o Official Website | Wikipedia | IMDB Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who lived, worked and died in the mobile encampment called "Hell on Wheels" that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. Season one (2011–12) began in 1865 shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Season two (2012) covered 1866, Seasons three (2013) and four (2014) opened in 1867. On November 7, 2014, Hell on Wheels was renewed for a fifth and final season consisting of 14 episodes to be aired in 2015 and 2016. Season 5 Synopsis posted:After four years on the Union Pacific, former Confederate soldier and railroad man Cullen Bohannon finds himself in California - the land of opportunity, a haven of gold, a place of reinvention. It’s the location of a new Hell on Wheels: The Central Pacific Railroad, which unlike the Union Pacific faces constant threats as it struggles to make its way through the treacherous Rocky Mountains. As Cullen faces his own mountain of challenges – adapting to an unfamiliar environment and the exotic, cultural traditions of his new employees, the race to unite the nation by rail comes to a thrilling head.  The Cast  Cullen Bohannon - Anson Mount Cullen Bohannon is a former Confederate soldier who once served as head of the Union Pacific Railroad. Cullen Bohannon hires on with the Central Pacific Railroad in California after Collis Huntington promises to help him find his family. Cullen stirs up old rivalries with his ex-boss, Thomas Durant, and his old nemesis, The Swede, as he leads his Chinese workforce across the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the race against the Union Pacific as both railroads drive toward the pounding of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah.  Thomas ‘Doc’ Durant - Colm Meaney Thomas "Doc" Durant is a greedy entrepreneur and railroad mogul who manages the Union Pacific Railroad. Thomas “Doc" Durant (based on the real-life railroad mogul) finds himself without a Chief Engineer after Cullen Bohannon abruptly quits. Upon discovering that Cullen has signed on with the Central Pacific Railroad, Durant takes on an unlikely pair of new partners who help him lay track at an unprecedented rate while he continues to enrich himself through dubious business practices.  The Swede - Christopher Heyerdahl The Swede is a mysterious Norwegian immigrant who is now supervising the Mormon workforce on the Central Pacific Railroad. After convincing Brigham Young to send him to California to supervise the Mormon workforce on the Central Pacific Railroad, "The Swede" enacts one last deadly scheme to gain the position and power he feels fate owes him, only to find himself challenged once again by the devil in his path, Cullen Bohannon.  Louise Ellison - Jennifer Ferrin Louise Ellison is a strong-willed reporter dispatched to Hell on Wheels. Louise is working as a freelance journalist in Laramie after her newspaper was destroyed and she was driven out of Cheyenne and blackballed by Governor Campbell. Determined to write the true story of hubris, greed and fraud perpetrated by the titans who are building the Transcontinental Railroad.  Collis P. Huntington - Tim Guinee One of the “Big Four” railroad titans who built the Central Pacific Railroad, Huntington is Cullen Bohannon’s new boss. Huntington is a self-made man from Connecticut who built his fortune during the California Gold Rush selling shovels to prospectors. His ruthless business acumen, juxtaposed against his convivial nature and fascination with all things Chinese, keeps Cullen and his vast workforce of 15,000 men on their toes.  Chang - Byron Mann The primary labor contractor for the Central Pacific Railroad, Chang runs a small empire in Truckee, California’s “Chinatown,” providing food, sundries, opium, and whores to the Chinese workers he’s contracted to the railroad. A former rebel who fought in the Taiping Rebellion, Chang is caught between the peasant Chinese workers and the railroad’s white overlords, whose racist attitudes keep him in his place.  While it might not be a Deadwood, it is the best western on TV and is quite entertaining.  
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This show was awesome for the first few episodes of season 1. Then it got super lovely very fast. At the end of the last season I watched, Common fought a bear. Was that season 3 or 4? It seemed like they were trying to get a fresh start. It's a bad show and that's saying something because I'll pretty much watch anything western.
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Jul 27, 2015 18:06
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:This show was awesome for the first few episodes of season 1. Then it got super lovely very fast. At the end of the last season I watched, Common fought a bear. Was that season 3 or 4? It seemed like they were trying to get a fresh start. You have terrible taste. This show has some low points but its been rock solid since season 1.
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Jul 27, 2015 18:47
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This show is still fun and watchable and I enjoy the sets and scenery especially this year in the "sierra nevada" (all seasons filmed around Calgary) I can't believe the Swede is still alive - but he's really too good to be rid of I suppose so they'll string out his death until the series finale this year. http://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/hell-on-wheels-showrunner-john-wirth-talks-about-season-5 Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jul 27, 2015 |
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Jul 27, 2015 20:49
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Did this get better after S3? I watched S1 and 2, and it was okay, S3 started great and turned terrible. I fully expected it to get cancelled but then it came back with S4 which I didn't watch. Now I see S5 commercials and didn't this used to air in the spring?
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Jul 27, 2015 21:17
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Whatever happened to Common's character
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Jul 27, 2015 21:50
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Pron on VHS posted:Whatever happened to Common's character He got eaten by a bear. Well ok a bunch of other stuff happened after the bear attack, but that was pointlessly convoluted and a huge disservice to the character so I just leave it at the bear.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:31
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Bear attack/peyote induced PTSD and schizophrenia consumed Common. RIP
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Jul 27, 2015 22:48
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pentyne posted:You have terrible taste. This show has some low points but its been rock solid since season 1. Are you serious? It's a really bad show. I'll admit I haven't seen S4. So maybe it got magically better, but judging by the above posts it sure doesn't sound like it.
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Jul 28, 2015 10:43
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Just finished S4 on Netflix. It's not a great show and is basically a low budget network Deadwood, but meh, I'll stick it out for the final season.
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Jul 31, 2015 15:32
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I stopped watching around the end of the second season when they killed off Lily Bell (and the Swede is still alive ~2 years later apparently), so if the new seasons aren't a complete trainwreck I'd catch up.
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Aug 1, 2015 02:37
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I caught up with the 2 episodes this season, it's still pretty blah.
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Aug 1, 2015 13:39
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Pron on VHS posted:Whatever happened to Common's character He got attacked by a bear and it bit his brain. Healed by local Indians, got a fever and infection, went insane. Returned to town and tried to enslave and sell women, Bohanan put him down in the streets like a rabid dog.
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moleman posted:He got attacked by a bear and it bit his brain. Healed by local Indians, got a fever and infection, went insane. Returned to town and tried to enslave and sell women, Bohanan put him down in the streets like a rabid dog. Glad I missed that. My instincts to quit the show were spot on.
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Aug 2, 2015 18:08
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How has such a garbage show been on the air for 5 seasons
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Aug 2, 2015 18:37
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Pron on VHS posted:How has such a garbage show been on the air for 5 seasons People gotta watch something while Breaking Bad and Walking Dead are on hiatus.
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Aug 2, 2015 21:07
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I really don't think anyone is going to get a happy ending on this show aside from the railroad owners.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:19
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gently caress the haters, this show has a cast way more interesting than Walking Dead and a premise at least as good as Breaking Bad and does a period piece even better than Mad Men. Also the sets are spectacularly disgusting, and holy poo poo whoever thought that Chief O'Brien was actually a great actor? Because he is. In this show. That is very good.
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Aug 16, 2015 11:32
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Check out Colm Meaney in Layer Cake, good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEVA0l3rR48 Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Aug 18, 2015 02:34
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What does the term 'jake' mean when they refer to the Chinese workers? I don't think I've heard it before and wasn't able to find anything via Google.
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Aug 24, 2015 01:42
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Racist/Lazy census takers at the time would count Chinese immigrants by generic names like John or Jake with the surname "Chinaman". Sort of like how we use "John Doe" to identify unknown bodies today
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Aug 24, 2015 06:11
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Will never understand all the hate this show gets. S3 and 4 never matched up to the first two, but Elam and the preacher's daughter getting killed were both great pairs of episodes, and John Wirth is finally getting his writing chops on with how good this season has been.
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Aug 29, 2015 20:51
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Just got to Elam's death. Glad everyone else thought it was complete bullshit too.
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Sep 7, 2015 01:56
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This show came back without me even noticing at first. It's amazing how little AMC advertises it. Never saw a single ad for it during Fear the Walking Dead or Preacher. I liked they handled the Swede in the first episode, and Bohannon's wife/kid in the second, leaving the rest of the episodes open for railroad stuff. I hope there's more on the Laramie side for the last few episodes, there wasn't enough Colm Meaney in the first half of the season.
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Jun 21, 2016 19:38
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If they hadn't turned "the swede" into Jason Voorhees it might have been better. I more than half expected him to jump back to life and eat someone's face after the hanging.
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Jun 21, 2016 19:50
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So it ended. There really isn't much to say. Bohannen's breakdown scene was great. Everything else felt like it just sort of fizzled out to its inevitable conclusion. It's a shame the show just sort of tread water for so long, because most of the actors on the show did a drat good job.
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Jul 26, 2016 17:34
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Did the main confederate guy find out who killed his family?
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Jul 26, 2016 21:02
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Pron on VHS posted:Did the main confederate guy find out who killed his family? Yeah, I think he killed the last one in season 2 or something. Or maybe he found him but decided not to kill him. I don't really remember, that story took a backseat after the first season. That first season was rough but the show got better over time at tearing down some of the cliches they had built. I thought this final season was really good, and the show went out strong. Only thing I'm not wild about is Bohannon heading to China, since that whole relationship felt a little rushed (by necessity). Makes sense as a way of showing that he's finally able to fully move on, I suppose. I'm also not sure how the Durant power play against Huntington after the railroad was done made sense. How did he have any power at all over whether the government inspected the railroad? Wouldn't they have done it anyway?
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http://reviewsfornoobs.blogspot.ca/2016/07/hell-on-wheels-now-that-its-done.html Posting my buddy's thoughts on the subject and honestly, I agree with him. 
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