Imagine the best western movie but 398,5 hours longer, this is THAT show!

Hell on Wheels (2011) is a gritty and exciting western that takes place right after the Civil War ended!

Set against the background of a recently post Civil War America, we see a country of freed slave and immigrants, Southerners and Northerners, minorities and the wealthy, all fighting to assert themselves, reshape their identities and their fortunes, as they unite and are carried along around the building of the first transcontinental railroad.

And what characters they are - hero and anti hero, side kick and damsel, villains, evangelicals, charlatans, criminals - all competing for attention and giving as good as they get from beginning to end.

Main story follows Cullen Bohannon - a former confederate soldier and slave owner. Who seeks revenge for his dead family by the hands of southern soldiers. The road of his revenge brings him to Union Pacific railroad - monumental project of Lincoln to unite divided country by one railroad.

Truly one of the most satisfying TV series I have ever had the pleasure to watch.

You can watch Hell on Wheels (2011) on AMC+