Hell on Wheels season 5 review

What is the legacy of a series? It is such a hard thing to identify, especially within a condensed amount of words or mere minutes after an ending airs. The public opinion will forge what will be considered a reasonably-accepted opinion, such as they did following the “Lost” or “How I Met Your Mother” finales. […]

For many longtime fans of “Hell on Wheels,” this weekend’s penultimate episode felt very much like a love letter. Unfortunately, it just so happened to also be one with a particularly sad end. It’s like someone took said letter and threw it into a local campfire. As the closing minutes showed, Cullen Bohannon is not […]

Is Cullen Bohannon a victim of loss, or a figure of great neglect? This serves as one of the more interesting, human conflicts at the center of “Hell on Wheels” so far through season 5. It was easy to view his confession about losing everyone he loved a couple of episodes back as some moment of […]

Was it worth it? For many of the characters on AMC’s “Hell on Wheels,” we definitely understanding wondering over this question. There are so many characters who gave their everything to this railroad, whether it be Cullen (who finds it the one thing of consistent value to him), Mickey, Psalms, or many others who have […]

Through much of this final season of “Hell on Wheels,” we’ve seen Cullen Bohannon operate with a relatively-specific goal in mind: Trying to find a way to make it back to Naomi and his family. Yet, that phase is over, and what we’re seeing now is a wilder, more uninhibited version of his man. He’s […]

You can argue that for Cullen Bohannon on “Hell on Wheels,” he lives a life steeped in tragedy. Is there a certain part of it that is of his own doing? Absolutely, but there is also a part of it that is circumstantial and inevitable. He cannot be in every place at once, and he […]

A funny thing tends to often happen to us when it comes to AMC’s “Hell on Wheels”: Somehow, we continue to constantly underrate it in our head, and every time it returns with new episodes we’re continually surprised by just how good it is. Maybe a part of it is because it’s not spoken about […]

We’ve spend several weeks now on “Hell on Wheels” season 5 exploring Cullen Bohannon and his efforts working with the Central Pacific, which in turn has been an interesting exploration in its own right into life for the Chinese workers who toiled for little pay and respect. On tonight’s midseason finale, meanwhile, the show decided […]

It may be hard to believe, but there is now only one episode left until “Hell on Wheels” ends the first half of season 5. There are still so many stories left to tell, and also conclusions for us to reach. One of the big questions that we could see many wondering after this past […]

It has taken us some time this season, but “Hell on Wheels” has really started to paint a fuller picture of what season 5 will be … and we are of course extending the story beyond just Cullen Bohannon and the town of Truckee. In Laramie, we are seeing many beloved characters show off some […]