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Hell on Wheels (2011)

Drama · Western

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

IMDb rating
8.3 (59,753 votes)
Seasons
5
Streaming (US)
Paramount+ · AMC+ · Philo · Spectrum On Demand · The Roku Channel · Xumo Play · Plex · Plex Channel
Language
EN
Type
TV series
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Seasons

Season 1 (2011)

7.97 avg 10 episodes 7.8 → 8.3 43 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 1,480 votesEp 2: 7.9 · 1,124 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 1,014 votesEp 4: 7.6 · 952 votesEp 5: 7.8 · 954 votesEp 6: 7.7 · 905 votesEp 7: 8.5 · 954 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 903 votesEp 9: 8.3 · 892 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 898 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Pilot7.81,480
2Immoral Mathematics7.91,124
3A New Birth of Freedom7.71,014
4Jamais je ne t'oublierai7.6952
5Bread and Circuses7.8954
6Pride, Pomp and Circumstance7.7905
7Revelations8.5954
8Derailed8.1903
9Timshel8.3892
10God of Chaos8.3898

Season 2 (2012)

8.28 avg 10 episodes 8.1 → 8.7 48 min avg

  • Big finale
Ep 1: 8.1 · 761 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 775 votesEp 3: 8.2 · 760 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 737 votesEp 5: 8.6 · 813 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 758 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 730 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 731 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 741 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 911 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Viva La Mexico8.1761
2Durant, Nebraska8.1775
3Slaughterhouse8.2760
4Scabs8.1737
5The Railroad Job8.6813
6Purged Away with Blood8.4758
7The White Spirit8.0730
8The Lord's Day8.1731
9Blood Moon8.5741
10Blood Moon Rising8.7911

Season 3 (2013)

8.22 avg 10 episodes 8.2 → 8.3 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 829 votesEp 2: 8.5 · 771 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 662 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 661 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 658 votesEp 6: 8.6 · 722 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 655 votesEp 8: 8.0 · 643 votesEp 9: 8.6 · 710 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 746 votes
Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Big Bad Wolf8.2829
2Eminent Domain8.5771
3Range War8.1662
4The Game8.0661
5Searchers7.9658
6One Less Mule8.6722
7Cholera8.0655
8It Happened in Boston8.0643
9Fathers and Sins8.6710
10Get Behind the Mule8.3746

Season 4 (2014)

8.32 avg 13 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 42 min avg

  • Rollercoaster
Ep 1: 8.0 · 706 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 668 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 642 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 639 votesEp 5: 8.5 · 678 votesEp 6: 7.3 · 827 votesEp 7: 8.8 · 1,071 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 647 votesEp 9: 8.8 · 715 votesEp 10: 8.9 · 778 votesEp 11: 8.4 · 676 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 718 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 617 votes
Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Elusive Eden8.0706
2Escape from the Garden8.4668
3Chicken Hill8.3642
4Reckoning8.0639
5Life's a Mystery8.5678
6Bear Man7.3827
7Elam Ferguson8.81,071
8Under Color of Law8.1647
9Two Trains8.8715
10Return to Hell8.9778
11Bleeding Kansas8.4676
12Thirteen Steps8.5718
13Further West8.1617

Season 5 (2015)

8.29 avg 14 episodes 8.0 → 8.8 44 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 657 votesEp 2: 8.3 · 646 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 556 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 557 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 560 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 569 votesEp 7: 8.6 · 613 votesEp 8: 8.9 · 827 votesEp 9: 8.0 · 550 votesEp 10: 8.1 · 532 votesEp 11: 8.5 · 592 votesEp 12: 8.3 · 542 votesEp 13: 8.7 · 588 votesEp 14: 8.8 · 717 votes
Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Chinatown8.0657
2Mei Mei8.3646
3White Justice7.9556
4Struck8.0557
5Elixir of Life8.1560
6Hungry Ghosts7.8569
7False Prophets8.6613
8Two Soldiers8.9827
9Return to the Garden8.0550
1061 Degrees8.1532
11Gambit8.5592
12Any Sum Within Reason8.3542
13Railroad Men8.7588
14Done8.8717

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