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Critic Consensus: Hell on Wheels' third outing teases an exciting new direction for its characters but unfortunately loses locomotion in the end, leaving its characters stuck in a stranded narrative boxcar.
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as Cullen Bohannon
as Thomas "Doc" Durant
as Elam Ferguson
as Sean McGinnes
as Mickey McGinnes
as Mickey McGinnes
as "The Swede"
as Louise Ellison
as Eva
as Ruth
as Psalms
as Lily Bell
as "The Swede", Joseph Black Moon
as Eva, Ezra Dutson
as Joseph Dutson, Louise Ellison
as Senator Metcalf
as Naomi Hatch
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Critic Reviews for Hell on Wheels: Season 3
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The final nail in the coffin for Hell on Wheels is that scourge of all television programs that begin slowly: Most viewers simply won't have the patience to find out if the show's writers ultimately find their footing.
The Mormon subplot is quick-and-dirty writing that uses nasty stereotypes as shorthand. Because it's harder and takes longer to put research and effort into scriptwriting. It's harder to create characters who aren't just cartoonish clichés.
An at times jerky return, but a fun one at that.
The Hell on Wheels writers have taken us on a short ride that started out with a bang, dropped the speed for a couple of episodes in the middle there, started on an incline again, but only to never send us down the roller-coaster in an exciting fashion.
For a season that was primarily about redemption, season 3 may have wound up being about finding a way back to the middle.
A prickly alliance founded on mutual respect and constantly threatened by both history and present, unpleasant circumstance, it's more subtle and moving than your average TV bromance and brings out the best in Common and Mr. Mount.
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