Driving by his deep will and need to vengeance, Cullen Bohannon, a former confederate soldier, who during the Civil War, has lost his wife, who has been killed by the unions soldiers, the thing that makes his rage, leaves to the country of Hell on Wheels. After the end of the hard winter, Culen and Elam are traveling to New York, in order to save their positions.
There are some new folks; a NYC reporter who is an unnecessary tough-dame-reporter caricature. What this well-written series does not need is a character whose only job [is to move] the story along with expository dialogue in the guise of interviews.
These first two episodes reestablish Hell on Wheels as a series that isn?t quite as wacky?even if the show does start with ghosts and Bohannan fighting a wolf?and seems to have a much greater focus.
There's certainly some promise in this apparent new direction; if nothing else, the show seems to be more directly about railroads than it ever was in the first two seasons.