Think Red Dead Redemption meets Sid Meir’s Railroad Tycoon and you have the basic premise for AMC’s gritty new western series, Hell on Wheels.
Actor Anson Mount Portrays Protagonist Cullen Bohannan Who Brings Gritty Frontier Justice to the Westward Bound Railroad. Airing Sundays on AMC 10/9C
The story is set in 19th century America, after the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. As the nation tries to heal from the scars of war, a great endeavor is put forth: unite the halved country by stitching eastern shore to western shore with a railroad. It’s on the front lines of said railroad that we meet Cullen Bohannan (Anson Mount), a mysterious gunslinger who (after a brazen murder) comes out west under the guise of working for the railroad, in order to continue his quest for vengeance. Leading the push for railroad expansion is Thomas ‘Doc’ Durant (Colm Meaney), a tycoon who at once wants to fatten his pocket and make the nation great via cross-country tranist. The other players include a famous topographer’s wife, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Tom Noonan), a freed slave with a major grudge (Common), and a former slave master with a major grudge (Ted Levine). By the end of the pilot, not all of the aforementioned characters make it out alive.
It’s dark, gritty and historically accurate to the time period…what more can you ask for in a show airing Sunday nights directly after, The Walking Dead?
Hell on Wheels: First Look (AMC)
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A native of Tampa, FL Robert is the presiding editor and co-owner of both Down Shift Magazine and DS Holdings, LLC. A proud alumnus of the University of South Florida’s class of 2005 Robert is active in the Tampa Bay community and when not residing at his home in Tampa, FL enjoys traveling throughout the United States and abroad covering the motorsports and cultural phenomenon that shape our modern automotive enthusiast community.
