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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAMC's "Hell On Wheels." Yay or Nay? Binge watching it on Netflix
Didn't have cable when it aired, so I'd never seen it.
I'm up to Season 4, episode 11.
Finding it to be a mix of the highly improbable mixed with U.S. history.
Pretty decent casting.
Have you seen it?
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,507 posts)I liked it well enough but once they killed off a certain character I didnt want to watch anymore.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Won't name the character for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I assume it didn't go over well at the time.
hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)and Common (surprisingly impressive as an actor).
I really liked it. Of course it is no documentary, but there is enough REAL history to make it interesting.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...but Heyerdahl blew my mind. There was no small degree of bravery that went into that part. Just when you think you have seen the depths of The Swede's madness, he goes down a few more levels.
samnsara
(17,656 posts)..really liked it but for some reason i forgot to keep watching it.
procon
(15,805 posts)take the gruesome slaughter anymore and stopped watching. The actors were all excellent and the plot was good, but the story was too often sidelined by the overwhelming, gratuitous violence. The characters were becoming too grotesque, and they lacked any redeeming social qualities with little ties to community or their humanity.
I get that the producers wanted realism, but there are other ways to portray a violent scene without taking the audience on a close up tour of an abattoir. I don't watch blood and gore horror movies because they make me ill, and "Hell On Wheels" was increasingly determined to concentrate on every blood-soaked death and dismemberment in close up details instead giving me a good story with interactions between the characters.
hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)the violence was not gratuitous, but rather consistent. That said, I admittedly turn away when I know what's coming, in most of the popular movies as well.
Iggo
(47,586 posts)benld74
(9,911 posts)Watched all seasons
Recording then watching
Found myself stopping episodes
To Google something from the show
Was either spot on or could infer from history
Entertained thoroughly
Luciferous
(6,087 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,795 posts)I'm a big fan of the topic of the transcontinental railroad, so the show had a certain appeal.