The ratings for Hell on Wheels have dropped lower and lower so AMC decided to end the series with season five. Will the fifth season’s ratings be the show’s best numbers yet or, will they drop lower. Will the execs regret not cancelling the show instead of giving it a final season? Stay tuned.
A gritty period drama that takes place in the 1860s, Hell on Wheels revolves around the institutionalized greed and corruption behind the building of America’s Transcontinental Railroad as loyalties are abandoned and the race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines intensifies. The cast includes Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Christopher Heyerdahl, Robin McLeavy, Jennifer Ferrin, Phil Burke, Tim Guinee, Dohn Norwood, Reg Rogers, Byron Mann, A. Zhou, Tzi Ma, and MacKenzie Porter.
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For comparision: The fourth season of Hell on Wheels averaged a 0.37 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.09 million viewers.
What do you think? Do you like the Hell on Wheels TV series? Do you think it should be ending? Would you watch a sixth season?
Good actors and a really good storyline , even if it did stray from the truth occasionally.I would have loved for it to continue especially as there is so much rubbish about on TV.We watch it on Amazon Prime.
This show has been great but it was best staying with the western theme. We watched it every weekend and loved it. Had the writing stayed with the real story it could have stayed on for years. PLEASE bring it back !!!!
AMC needs writers that know history. Too much crap that was blatantly wrong in history. I love the actors in this show, with good writers it would have been phenomenal.
Saturday night is a horrible time slot for such an awesomely written and all together fantastic show!! You (AMC) could have annihilated in the ratings on say a Wednesday night or a Sunday night and kept this show around for at least 8 or 9 great seasons!! Very sorry to see this show gone too soon!!!
We came to this late also but we’re immediately embedded in the series. Pls bring anson IV back! Cullen deserves a fitting conclusion.
Where the hell is season six!
Great show. I just think people found out about it too late. I just found it on Netflix 6 months ago or so and immediately loved it. Once I told all my friends and family members to watch it, they became addicted too. However, 6 months ago was too late for my group to find it to save the show. Amc should consider it a success no matter what. I just don’t think the right audiences knew about it.
Cullen and Mei forever. 😉
I will truly miss Hell On Wheels. It was such a fantastic show.
This sucks-what a great show!!! I hated the ending-we need Season 6 for a better ending!!!PLEASE!
What i don’t understand is how it dropped in ratings, should have increased because I know a lot of people in Edmonton, Alberta that watches it.. and hell, i even got all my friends into it. Please make a season 6! I love this show to death
oh man I am a loyal fan.. my parents and siblings watch this. Please make another season! I love this so much! I don’t want to see it go! The cinematography, the storyline, the accuracy, the complex characters, the sxript was all beyond exceptional. Mindblowing! Thanks to all who put this together.. walking dead is good but it isn’t Hell on Wheels….
Loved this show! My husband and I are in our 60’s and we are tired of all the same old shows and reality shows. Yes, got tired of the Swede, but that came to an end. Could have continued this show for years. I don’t know how the ratings were figured. No one called us!
HELL ON WHEELS was a great show.The cast was great.You could have done so much with the show. KNOWING THEY HAD TO RUSH THROUGH because they knew last season they were being cancelled.Such a shame. REALITY TV is taking over ever channel this was such a nice change. WILL MISS THIS SHOW
agree I love the show but it has been getting a lot more rotten All That season was nothing but the Swede chasing after Anson Mount and it got annoying the first two seasons were the best when they built the town and everything was still in the beginnings of who was who, and who had what, and who was getting what, and who wanted what, but the last three seasons have went downhill completely and I am sad to see it go I’m glad they finally killed the swed off but it was a little too late I mean… Read more »