Hell on Wheels has continued to plod on, as it is about to start its fourth season, even though it was relegated to Saturday nights, an evening where original television is scarce.

News About Season 3 Of Hell On Wheels

Nevertheless, AMC's tale of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad after the end of the Civil War is beginning its fourth season soon, and, on Friday, Indiewire announced an exclusive new promo for the upcoming season.

The video features the time lapsed construction of a railroad and a city, while Thomas Durant, the rail baron played by Colm Meaney, gives a speech about venturing into unknown territory. This is thematically relevant for a show that has featured the railroad expanding further and further West with various issues arising along the way.

Common Hosts Event For Canon

Hell on Wheels starts Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who started the show seeking revenge, but he has seen himself, and his story, integrated into the railroad business as it has gone on. The show also stars the aforementioned Meaney, as well as the rapper Common, who plays freed slave Elam Ferguson. As this is a Western, there is plenty of violence and gunfights and battles with Native Americans and so on. The fourth season, which has the tagline "Hell ain't civilized," begins August 2 with the episode "The Elusive Eden."

There will be 13 episodes to the season, and showrunner John Wirth says to expect shocking events that change the landscape of the series. If you've been in on Hell on Wheels for this long, that probably will interest you enough to keep you watching.

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