Hell on Wheels, Season 4, Episode 9, “Two Trains”
Written by Bruce Marshall Romans
Directed by Marvin Rush
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“I looked into his eyes and saw a wickedness that has yet to be unleashed”
Hell on Wheels has had a difficult fourth season. There have been excellent episodes like “Elam Ferguson” and the introduction of brilliant new characters like Campbell (Jake Weber), but with only four episodes left in the season it seems like Hell on Wheels has no real direction. Strong acting and interesting characters haven’t been able to save the season from its aimlessness.
“Two Trains” ranks with “Elam Ferguson” as one of the season’s best episodes. It is a quickly paced, violent, down and dirty episode full of great moments, exceptionally clever directing, and excellent performances. This is the Hell on Wheels viewers have come to expect and love.
The opening...
Written by Bruce Marshall Romans
Directed by Marvin Rush
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“I looked into his eyes and saw a wickedness that has yet to be unleashed”
Hell on Wheels has had a difficult fourth season. There have been excellent episodes like “Elam Ferguson” and the introduction of brilliant new characters like Campbell (Jake Weber), but with only four episodes left in the season it seems like Hell on Wheels has no real direction. Strong acting and interesting characters haven’t been able to save the season from its aimlessness.
“Two Trains” ranks with “Elam Ferguson” as one of the season’s best episodes. It is a quickly paced, violent, down and dirty episode full of great moments, exceptionally clever directing, and excellent performances. This is the Hell on Wheels viewers have come to expect and love.
The opening...
- 9/29/2014
- by Tressa
- SoundOnSight
I find myself writing about Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Three more than any single season of any season from any franchise. And that’s fine by me given the quantum leap in quality improvement from the previous two seasons. I am happy to do it one more time as the Blu-ray set from Paramount Home Entertainment is due to arrive on Tuesday.
The behind-the-scenes turmoil that led to the first two seasons feeling incredibly inconsistent began to fade with the arrival of a new set of writers and producers. As Gene Roddenberry grew frailer and ceded more day-to-day control to producer Rick Berman, the show also bid farewell to the exhausted head writer Maurice Hurley. He was briefly replaced by Michael Wagner but illness forced him to leave after just four episodes, but his recommended replacement, Michael Piller, proved to be the turning point in the show’s fortunes.
The behind-the-scenes turmoil that led to the first two seasons feeling incredibly inconsistent began to fade with the arrival of a new set of writers and producers. As Gene Roddenberry grew frailer and ceded more day-to-day control to producer Rick Berman, the show also bid farewell to the exhausted head writer Maurice Hurley. He was briefly replaced by Michael Wagner but illness forced him to leave after just four episodes, but his recommended replacement, Michael Piller, proved to be the turning point in the show’s fortunes.
- 4/28/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Hell on Wheels continues to roll along at a steady pace, but I'm sometimes still left wondering: where are we going?
I know the railroad construction is complete when they reach the Pacific, so that's a type of endgame, but what's the season arc beyond each singular episode? I know there's little bits that overlap, but I guess I'm still waiting for that larger story reveal.
In fact, season two has barely touched upon one of the driving forces of the freshman season: finding Bohannon's family's killers. Will we ever get back to that?
My concerns aside, "The Railroad Job" was a satisfyingly action-packed episode that really captured the gun toting, quick shooting, stick 'em up showdown of any Western. I'm just surprised I didn't see a tumbleweed bounce past all the fighting fray.
If anything, season two has amped up the action week to week from train robberies, impressively filmed giant mob fisticuffs,...
I know the railroad construction is complete when they reach the Pacific, so that's a type of endgame, but what's the season arc beyond each singular episode? I know there's little bits that overlap, but I guess I'm still waiting for that larger story reveal.
In fact, season two has barely touched upon one of the driving forces of the freshman season: finding Bohannon's family's killers. Will we ever get back to that?
My concerns aside, "The Railroad Job" was a satisfyingly action-packed episode that really captured the gun toting, quick shooting, stick 'em up showdown of any Western. I'm just surprised I didn't see a tumbleweed bounce past all the fighting fray.
If anything, season two has amped up the action week to week from train robberies, impressively filmed giant mob fisticuffs,...
- 9/10/2012
- by smckenna412@gmail.com (Sean McKenna)
- TVfanatic
Whether you’re into the show or not, a behind the scenes look at AMC’s Hell on Wheels is particularly interesting. The show’s a contemporary Western about an ex-Confederate solider who winds up helping construct the Union Pacific Railroad’s first transcontinental railroad, so timely set pieces and costumes are abound. Executive producer and director David Von Ancken touches on one of the show’s prime assets, their ability to rent 15,000 acres and, as Von Ancken points out in the video, 15,000 is a ton of land. Director of photography Marvin Rush piggybacks on the comment, noting the endless horizon the piece of land offers, something that lends itself to the visuals...
- 12/7/2011
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale Directed by: Chris Fisher Written by: Nathan Atkins Starring: Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, Jackson Rathbone, Ed Westwick, Elizabeth Berkley, John Hawkes Although Richard Kelly's directorial debut Donnie Darko didn't break even upon its initial theatrical release back in 2001, the movie went on to find a pretty massive cult following on DVD and has since become a bit of a cash cow. To this day I'm not quite sure what it is about the film that connected with teen audiences, but I suspect it has something to do with Jake Gyllenhaal's performance as an emotionally troubled outcast and its reputation for being such a mindbender of a film. Either way, it was successful enough to result in a Director's Cut re-release a few years later, and now, a direct-to-dvd sequel. Yes, that's right a sequel. There are certain movies that lend themselves well to sequels,...
- 6/8/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
At one point on the S. Darko DVD’s audio commentary, director Chris Fisher says something along the lines of, “I’m not sure I know what’s going on.” That wasn’t exactly comforting to hear while trying to make sense of everything that had transpired thus far.
This sequel to Richard Kelly’s cult fave Donnie Darko, debuting on disc from Fox Home Entertainment, isn’t the completely awful film many thought it would be (or wanted it to be), but it’s not great by any means, and many of its flaws derive from how this continuation adapts the original’s mythology and concepts. So take note: This review may become a bit spoiler-heavy. For those who want to sit this review out until they see the film, know simply that S. Darko may be intriguing enough to be worth a peek for fans of the original,...
This sequel to Richard Kelly’s cult fave Donnie Darko, debuting on disc from Fox Home Entertainment, isn’t the completely awful film many thought it would be (or wanted it to be), but it’s not great by any means, and many of its flaws derive from how this continuation adapts the original’s mythology and concepts. So take note: This review may become a bit spoiler-heavy. For those who want to sit this review out until they see the film, know simply that S. Darko may be intriguing enough to be worth a peek for fans of the original,...
- 5/8/2009
- Fangoria
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