Seitz: The Failures, Successes, Possibilities, and Danger Signs of Hell on Wheels (New York Magazine)
Like a lot of people, I watched the first few episodes of AMC’s _Hell on
Wheels__, _Joe and Tony Gayton’s drama about the building of the
transcontinental railroad,_ _and then checked out. It wasn’t awful, but a lot
of it was weak, and even in its better moments it seemed not to have found its
tone yet. The pilot and the next couple of episodes seemed stranded between
grubby naturalism and slick, empty mythmaking. In one scene, the show would
feel like a wannabe _McCabe and Mrs. Miller_ or _Deadwood_, muddy and lyrical
and depressive. In another it would echo Sergio Leone or early Clint Eastwood
(_High Plains Drifter_ and_ The Outlaw Josey Wales_ especially). Yet another
scene would feel anachronistic, glossy, and weightless. When I finally did
catch up after the New Year, what I saw made me wish I’d been watching the
show in real time. _Hell on Wheels_ didn’t turn into a great drama, but it
settled into a distinctive groove, growing more relaxed and confident by the
week, dealing with painful historical subjects and unique personal crises that
most TV, even Western-themed TV, often ignores, and indulging in some of …
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