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Critic Reviews
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It's a measure of how absorbing Hell on Wheels is that each of these characters has evolved into someone we know and, in varying degrees,m root for. [10 Aug 2012, p.65]
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Hell on Wheels is a perfectly adequate piece of television with above adequate production values.
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It no longer feels like you're watching a dozen different TV shows now that the main characters actually interact with one another. And the show's pace seems more brisk, less stodgy.
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It's successful enough at achieving its own more modest goals.
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Where is this headed? Who knows? But it's heading there slowly. Nevertheless, the cast--Common, Meaney, Heyerdahl and Mount--is good, while the Old West still feels especially beautiful and perilous.
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Mount needs to run this thing, and he can't if he's the caboose. [27 Aug 2012, p.44]
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Hell on Wheels seems to be puttering around a circular track, with no straightway in sight.
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The second season of this Western finds it marginally better paced and the characters moderated a bit from the broad archetypes seen in Season 1, but I still find little to compel me in the story of a robber baron and an ex-soldier teaming up to get a transcontinental railroad built.
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Dramatically, the show feels as stalled as the trains, which have nowhere to go. Studiously gritty but rarely convincing in its clichéd characterizations and pretentious posturing, Wheels is hell on one's endurance.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 59 out of 68
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Mixed: 6 out of 68
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Negative: 3 out of 68
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Aug 13, 2013
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Oct 10, 2012
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Nov 7, 2013