Hell on Wheels: Season 2

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Hell On Wheels: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

AMC | Season Premiere Date: August 12, 2012

Starring: Colm Meaney, Anson Mount, Christopher Heyerdahl

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.

Creator: Tony Gayton and Joe Gayton

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E10. Blood Moon Rising
Air Date: October 7, 2012
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S2:E9. Blood Moon
Air Date: October 7, 2012
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S2:E8. The Lord's Day
Air Date: September 30, 2012

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Ken Tucker

Aug 3, 2012

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] Read full review

Rob Owen

Aug 9, 2012

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. Read full review

Willa Paskin

Aug 10, 2012

Hell on Wheels is a perfectly adequate piece of television with above adequate production values. Read full review

Verne Gay

Aug 8, 2012

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. Read full review

Tom Gliatto

Aug 17, 2012

Mount needs to run this thing, and he can't if he's the caboose. [27 Aug 2012, p.44]

Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 9, 2012

Hell on Wheels seems to be puttering around a circular track, with no straightway in sight. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Aug 10, 2012

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. Read full review

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Cymon

Oct 10, 2012

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 theI 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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WikileaksWho

Aug 13, 2013

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.

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SwampDonkey

Nov 7, 2013

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.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: July 18, 2014
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: August 2, 2014
Season 3

74
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: August 10, 2013
Season 2

60
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 12, 2012
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  S2:E10. Blood Moon Rising
  Air Date: October 7, 2012
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  S2:E9. Blood Moon
  Air Date: October 7, 2012
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  S2:E8. The Lord's Day
  Air Date: September 30, 2012
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  S2:E7. The White Spirit
  Air Date: September 23, 2012
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  S2:E6. Purged Away With Blood
  Air Date: September 16, 2012
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  S2:E5. The Railroad Job
  Air Date: September 9, 2012
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  S2:E4. Scabs
  Air Date: September 2, 2012
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  S2:E3. Slaughterhouse
  Air Date: August 26, 2012
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  S2:E2. Durant, Nebraska
  Air Date: August 19, 2012
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  S2:E1. Viva La Mexico
  Air Date: August 12, 2012
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  S2:E0. Inside Hell on Wheels: Episode 202, "Durant, Nebraska"
  Air Date: August 20, 2012
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 6, 2011