Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 10: “God of Chaos” “Just choose hate, it’s so much easier” What better way to end this season of Hell on Wheels than with a dance? That’s correct, the first annual Hell on Wheels Sock Hop is the backdrop for this superb finale. Will Cullen build up the courage to ask Lilly for the dance he’s been secretly yearning for? Will Thomas “Doc” Durant jealousy lead to a...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 9: “Timshel” “I can’t wait until they invent proper deodorant. Everyone here smells awful.” Last week I went on a fairly mild rant, declaring that I don’t know anyone who watched Hell on Wheels and it needed to shape up before AMC kicked it to the curb. If I did a wee bit of research before boldly talking about the show like it was my disappointing middle child,...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 8: “Derailed” “I didn’t sign on to be no Indian fighter” Hell on Wheels is back! Does anyone care? We’re into week 8 and I’m starting to think that no one is watching. None of my friends spend their Sundays with Cullen and the gang, none of the blogs I read give the show the time of day, and the biggest red flag is that my mom only...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 7: “Revelations” “…look at her peacocking around in that garish dress, I’d like to give her a good drubbing.” Oh boy, it looks like Hell’s wheels are about to fall off, my friends! Will Hell have to walk? Will it have to use someone else’s wheels and take the bus? Will Hell take up skiing or some other transportation that doesn’t require wheels? Is a jetpack in Hell’s...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 6: “Pride, Pomp and Circumstance” “You once had my head in a vice, Thomas, now I have your pecker in my pocket” Last week we saw Cullen vs. Elam in a knock down dragged out brawl. There was blood, sweat, tears and abs. This week we have an Indian on a horse vs. a train in a 100 meter dash. There was… a train… and an Indian… on...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 5: “Bread and Circuses” “Ooh, I could strangle you and embrace you at the same time!” Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, northerner and southerners, ex-slaves and ex-slave owners, welcome to fight of the century! In one corner we have the Grizzled Southerner, The Pale Whiskey Chugger, the Wet and Wild Cullen Bohannan. In the other corner we have The Ebony Wonder, the Cool Calm Laborer, the one and only...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episodes 4: “Jamais je ne t’oublierai” “She used her organ like a velvet hand on me tallywacker” This week’s episode of Hades on Roller Skates was entitled, “Jamais je ne t’oublierai”, which of course translates to the quote above… ha, just razzing ya! It means “Never will your memory fade”. Not as enticing, I know. It seems like everyone in the 1800s was in constant mourning, much like the...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 2: “A New Birth of Freedom” “Look at him, can’t even land a cheap ass whore who’s been plowed by every heathen buck in the territory” This week on Hell on Wheels (which, to my surprise, is NOT about a ragtag girls’ roller derby team) Cullen takes the day off from his new job and from seeking vengeance to go find Lilly, The Swede rounds up his own...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 2: “Immoral Mathematics” “You know why the man didn’t finish eating your sorry ass? Cause you Yankees all taste like shit.” The second episode of Hell on Wheels chronicled an elaborate game of hide and seek. The big news: Cullen evaded a hanging sentence for Johnson’s murder. It also featured less action while it experimented with flashbacks and flushed out some peripheral characters. Once again, the dialogue was...
Hell on Wheels Season 1: Episode 1: “Pilot” “Blood will be spilled. Lives will be lost. Fortunes will be made. Men will be ruined.” The original programming on AMC is notorious for exposing the gritty underbelly of human nature. Self-preservation drives the protagonists to ask bleak questions, and the viewer is left to unpack the answers. The network isn’t afraid to reveal dark and desperate truths – the results are strikingly honest and unlike...
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