AMC's "Hell On Wheels." Yay or Nay? Binge watching it on Netflix

[Miles Archer]

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]

1. Hell on Wheels - one of our favorites...eom

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. I watched the first three seasons.

I liked it well enough but once they killed off a certain character I didn’t want to watch anymore.

[Miles Archer]

4. I assumed it was that way for a lot of people

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]

3. Watched it when it aired. Great cast, especially Anson Mount (Cullen), Christpher Heyerdahl (Swede)

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]

5. Thought Mount and Common were great...

...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]

6. i started binge watching it last yr and got thru a cpl episodes...and i

..really liked it but for some reason i forgot to keep watching it.

[procon]

7. Nay. Watched the first two seasons while it was running, but I just couldn't

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]

8. I read a lot of history from the time...

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]

9. Yay, for Mister Bohannon.

[benld74]

10. Big Yay from here

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]

11. Nay. The first couple of seasons were ok.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

12. I thought the first two seasons were good - then they kinda lost me

I'm a big fan of the topic of the transcontinental railroad, so the show had a certain appeal.