No Where’s Good

The television series Hell on Wheels continues to intrigue me. The writers and director have done a great job of creating interesting questions for us to ponder. This scene from Season 4, Episode 11 is a good example. Cullen Bohannan has just walked into the room where Sydney Snow is recovering from being shot by…

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Cullen Bohannan

The AMC original television series, “Hell on Wheels,” is the new “Breaking Bad.” Both feature anti-heroes: men for whom we cheer and hope will survive, at least until the next episode, even as they leave a trail of death behind them. Both Walter White (“Breaking Bad”) and Cullen Bohannan (“Hell on Wheels”) are men who…

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Land of Dreams

Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny, had this to say in an interview with CBC Radio’s Jian Ghomeshi: My sense is that in my father’s generation, you wanted success and material wealth. You wanted a comfortable life, but that the way to achieve that was through commitment and a strong work ethic and personal integrity. But…

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