Hell on Wheels season 5 review

Within just a few short minutes of Saturday night’s “Hell on Wheels” episode, there was cause for celebration: Some old favorites are back! We got a sense for the first time of Mickey and Eva’s new saloon / brothel operation in Laramie, and some of their immediate difficulties getting their business of the ground. Namely, […]

“Hell on Wheels” has spent the past two episodes setting up more and more of what the world is like for the Chinese workers in Truckee. On tonight’s episode, the struggle escalated to new heights courtesy of one of the biggest hate crimes we have witnessed on the show today. Angry over the low wages […]

Even before this season of “Hell on Wheels” first began, we heard that one of the primary focuses was to tell this untold story of the migrant Chinese workers on the railroad. We were fascinated to see how these stories would play out, and for the most part they have been impressive and complex with […]

The opening minutes of “Hell on Wheels” were simply breathtaking. You saw inside the head of Cullen Bohannon into what he wishes his life could now be, and also what his life now is. He knows very little other than railroad work, but the longing for his wife and his child has never been clearer. […]