❮ Hell on Wheels
Season 2
5 Seasons
Season Premiere:
Aug 12, 2012
Metascore
Mixed or Average
60
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
60
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Aug 3, 2012
83
It's a measure of how absorbing Hell on Wheels is that each of these characters has evolved into someone we know and, in varying degrees,m root for. [10 Aug 2012, p.65]
Aug 10, 2012
70
Hell on Wheels is a perfectly adequate piece of television with above adequate production values.
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.1
87% Positive
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
9% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
4% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Oct 10, 2012
10
I have loved this show from the beginning. The writing leaves me each week in a state of looking forward to the next episode at Battlestar Gallactica. The characters are so evolving each episode that I don't care what part of the story ie.. the rail... is driven forward but what the characters are doing. Too bad more folks don't know their history or more would appreciate the show. There is so much that can be said without saying much. Thanks AMC.
Aug 13, 2013
5
I can't understand how people loved this season more than the previous one. First season was perfect but this?! Awful! Full of soap opera, full of disappointment. I hated season 2.
Aug 8, 2012
67
Where is this headed? Who knows? But it's heading there slowly. Nevertheless, the cast--Common, Meaney, Heyerdahl and Mount--is good, while the Old West still feels especially beautiful and perilous.
Aug 17, 2012
50
Mount needs to run this thing, and he can't if he's the caboose. [27 Aug 2012, p.44]
Aug 10, 2012
40
The second season of this Western finds it marginally better paced and the characters moderated a bit from the broad archetypes seen in Season 1, but I still find little to compel me in the story of a robber baron and an ex-soldier teaming up to get a transcontinental railroad built.
Aug 10, 2012
40
Dramatically, the show feels as stalled as the trains, which have nowhere to go. Studiously gritty but rarely convincing in its clichéd characterizations and pretentious posturing, Wheels is hell on one's endurance.
Nov 7, 2013
1
The first season was great, reminded me of Deadwood's excitement and believability. Seasons 2 episodes have the same arc...boring, boring, boring, cliffhanger. AMC does best when they stick with the original show runner see seasons 3 and 4 of Walking Dead.
