Hell on Wheels Cancelled — AMC Series Not Returning for Season 6
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About the series
Hell on Wheels is a Western TV series that aired on AMC between 2011 and 2016. The last completed season was split between the summers of 2015 and 2016, with the series finale broadcast on July 23, 2016. The show was created by Joe and Tony Gayton and produced by Entertainment One, Nomadic Pictures, H.O.W. Productions, Endemol, Wirthwhile TV and AMC Studios.
The series chronicles the time between 1865 and 1869, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad is at the core of the plot, and Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), the protagonist, is a man who has lost his wife and son during the American Civil War. Bohannon is an ex-Confederate soldier who now works as an engineer on the railroad and initially seeks revenge on the Union soldiers responsible for the death of his family, but later finds solace in his work.
Excellent reception and cancelation
The series has elicited mostly favorable response, and its epic portrayal of a diverse group of characters was praised. The viewership ratings held mostly steady throughout the series' run, with the expected season-to-season decline that a rare program manages to avoid. Hell on Wheels originally premiered to 4.36 million viewers, the network's second most-viewed launch after The Walking Dead, while the second part of the final fifth season averaged approximately 1.5 million viewers per episode. The series has an 8.3/10 IMDb rating, and was certainly well received with its tough realism, exquisite camera work and brilliantly portrayed intricate relationships between people. However, the fifth season of Hell on Wheels has originally been conceived as the final one, and thus the story ends. Farewell, it was an excellent run.
Episodes
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinatown | Jul 18, 2015 |
| 2 | Mei Mei | Jul 25, 2015 |
| 3 | White Justice | Aug 1, 2015 |
| 4 | Struck | Aug 8, 2015 |
| 5 | Elixir of Life | Aug 15, 2015 |
| 6 | Hungry Ghosts | Aug 22, 2015 |
| 7 | False Prophets | Aug 29, 2015 |
| 8 | Two Soldiers | Jun 11, 2016 |
| 9 | Return to the Garden | Jun 18, 2016 |
| 10 | 61 Degrees | Jun 25, 2016 |
| 11 | Gambit | Jul 2, 2016 |
| 12 | Any Sum Within Reason | Jul 9, 2016 |
| 13 | Railroad Men | Jul 16, 2016 |
| 14 | Done | Jul 23, 2016 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Elusive Eden | Aug 2, 2014 |
| 2 | Escape from the Garden | Aug 9, 2014 |
| 3 | Chicken Hill | Aug 16, 2014 |
| 4 | Reckoning | Aug 23, 2014 |
| 5 | Life's a Mystery | Aug 30, 2014 |
| 6 | Bear Man | Sep 6, 2014 |
| 7 | Elam Ferguson | Sep 13, 2014 |
| 8 | Under Color of Law | Sep 20, 2014 |
| 9 | Two Trains | Sep 27, 2014 |
| 10 | Return to Hell | Oct 4, 2014 |
| 11 | Bleeding Kansas | Nov 8, 2014 |
| 12 | Thirteen Steps | Nov 15, 2014 |
| 13 | Further West | Nov 22, 2014 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bad Wolf | Aug 10, 2013 |
| 2 | Eminent Domain | Aug 10, 2013 |
| 3 | Range War | Aug 17, 2013 |
| 4 | The Game | Aug 24, 2013 |
| 5 | Searchers | Aug 31, 2013 |
| 6 | One Less Mule | Sep 7, 2013 |
| 7 | Cholera | Sep 14, 2013 |
| 8 | It Happened in Boston | Sep 21, 2013 |
| 9 | Fathers and Sins | Sep 28, 2013 |
| 10 | Get Behind the Mule | Oct 5, 2013 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viva La Mexico | Aug 12, 2012 |
| 2 | Durant, Nebraska | Aug 19, 2012 |
| 3 | Slaughterhouse | Aug 26, 2012 |
| 4 | Scabs | Sep 2, 2012 |
| 5 | The Railroad Job | Sep 9, 2012 |
| 6 | Purged Away with Blood | Sep 16, 2012 |
| 7 | The White Spirit | Sep 23, 2012 |
| 8 | The Lord's Day | Sep 30, 2012 |
| 9 | Blood Moon | Oct 7, 2012 |
| 10 | Blood Moon Rising | Oct 7, 2012 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pilot | Nov 6, 2011 |
| 2 | Immoral Mathematics | Nov 13, 2011 |
| 3 | A New Birth of Freedom | Nov 20, 2011 |
| 4 | Jamais je ne t'oublierai | Nov 27, 2011 |
| 5 | Bread and Circuses | Dec 4, 2011 |
| 6 | Pride, Pomp and Circumstance | Dec 11, 2011 |
| 7 | Revelations | Dec 18, 2011 |
| 8 | Derailed | Jan 1, 2012 |
| 9 | Timshel | Jan 8, 2012 |
| 10 | God of Chaos | Jan 15, 2012 |
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