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Set in the 1860s at the end of the United States Civil War, the series centers on Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, who is determined to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the transcontinental railroad.
None of Hell on Wheels' juicy eruptions of pulp or sporadic glimpses of soul impedes the myth-belching progress of a story about the little engine of empire that could.
Hell On Wheels might not be groundbreaking, but it is captivating and eager to tell multiple stories of the men and women struggling to find purpose after the end of the Civil War.
This ambitious but wildly uneven cable drama is a drearily paced collection of cowboy cliches, saddle-sore plot twists and hackneyed characters with all the appeal of stale oats.