‘Hell on Wheels’ season 5, episode 8 premiere date revealed!

The final seven episodes of “Hell on Wheels” are coming to AMC — and they’ll be here a little bit earlier than you expected.

Today, the network announced that season 5 will resume airing on Saturday, June 11 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time, which is a full month earlier than we originally projected it airing. (Season 5 started in July, and seasons before that first premiered in August.) Then again, filming for the show completely many months ago, so this was really all about the network coming up with what they felt was the best time to air the show. One logical advantage to the earlier premiere is that it ensures that the show is over before the Summer Olympics begin (and begin sucking up ratings like a vacuum).

To go along with the premiere date, the network also unveiled the following synopsis:

“The last seven episodes of “Hell on Wheels” is the end of the line for Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and his work on America’s first transcontinental railroad.  The final push to finish brings with it a reckoning for Bohannon and the men standing in his path: the bloodthirsty Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl); the mercenary Chang (Byron Mann); and the rapacious Thomas Durant (Colm Meaney). Bohannon contends with corruption, greed and murder as he leads the trek to complete the final stages of the building of the railroad from the Central Pacific through the Sierras and across the Utah desert to Promontory Point.  While the railroad’s completion is certain, who and what will survive when the golden spike is finally planted remains in question — with no one more at risk than Cullen Bohannon.”

As previously reported, the first seven episodes of season 5 will be premiering on Netflix in late May; that date now makes more sense in context of the show premiering in early June. You better believe we’ll have more news in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned!