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Hell on wheels
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Rintimtin
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It is about time. Last 7 episodes hope they don't decide to take a 3 month brake in the middle like some shows.
10mmauto
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I thought it was on AMC?
StakeOut
US Veteran
The first half of the Hell on Wheels‘ fifth and final season, which was announced back in November 2014, aired last summer.
Hell on Wheels will start running out of track on Saturday, June 11 at 9/8c, when the first of the AMC series’ final seven episodes hits your TV box.
Hell on Wheels will start running out of track on Saturday, June 11 at 9/8c, when the first of the AMC series’ final seven episodes hits your TV box.
StakeOut
US Veteran
Yea, it's produced by AMC, but I'm not subscribed to any cable/satellite networks. My only source of shows is netflix and amazon prime.
Forgot what happened last season, in a galaxy far far away. 
Is Lilly Bell coming back?
Someone cap Swede
Is Lilly Bell coming back?
Someone cap Swede
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Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
In terms of the acting and drama, it's a good show, and I made it through a few seasons.
I just always had issues with the historical angle. The real characters of the Transcontinental Railroad story are just too well known if you've spent any time reading Western history.
The "Hell on Wheels" version of the Union Pacific story is a bit like re-telling the story of D-Day with two platoons of boy scouts and an Allied Supreme Commander named Willie Weedwhacker. You just can't tell the story of the greatest industrial enterprise of the 19th century with a core cast smaller than that of "Downton Abbey", and replace all the former (mostly Union) generals and engineers that really built the UP with some fictional ex-Confederate (Only Durant as one of the financiers gets his historical due). May work as drama to a degree if you don't know or don't care about the history, but doesn't compute otherwise.
I finally gave up, even though I really wanted to hang in there until the Swede got killed. (Did he finally?)
I just always had issues with the historical angle. The real characters of the Transcontinental Railroad story are just too well known if you've spent any time reading Western history.
The "Hell on Wheels" version of the Union Pacific story is a bit like re-telling the story of D-Day with two platoons of boy scouts and an Allied Supreme Commander named Willie Weedwhacker. You just can't tell the story of the greatest industrial enterprise of the 19th century with a core cast smaller than that of "Downton Abbey", and replace all the former (mostly Union) generals and engineers that really built the UP with some fictional ex-Confederate (Only Durant as one of the financiers gets his historical due). May work as drama to a degree if you don't know or don't care about the history, but doesn't compute otherwise.
I finally gave up, even though I really wanted to hang in there until the Swede got killed. (Did he finally?)
