Hell on Wheels: Season 2
  • Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 6, 2011
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 22 Ratings

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  • Summary: Lily Bell (Dominique McElligott) helps Thomas Durant (Colm Meaney) with the railroad as the second season of the western finds Elam (Common) and Cullen working on opposite sides.
  • Genre(s): Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    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]
  2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Aug 9, 2012
    70
    It no longer feels like you're watching a dozen different TV shows now that the main characters actually interact with one another. And the show's pace seems more brisk, less stodgy.
  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
    Aug 10, 2012
    70
    Hell on Wheels is a perfectly adequate piece of television with above adequate production values.
  4. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Aug 17, 2012
    50
    Mount needs to run this thing, and he can't if he's the caboose. [27 Aug 2012, p.44]
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
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  1. Cymon
    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.… Expand

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