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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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It's successful enough at achieving its own more modest goals.
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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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Hell on Wheels is a perfectly adequate piece of television with above adequate production values.
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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.
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Hell on Wheels seems to be puttering around a circular track, with no straightway in sight.
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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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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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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]
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