Hell on Wheels Recap: Fork Stab (New York Magazine)
The whole of _Hell on Wheels_ has been building toward the bromance that was
finally consummated this week. Even when Elam and Bohannon were pounding each
other’s flawless faces, it was clear that these two would soon team up to form
a Wild West version of Will Smith and Kevin Kline from _Wild Wild West_. This
week it happened.
But before the bromance, a flashback. And before the flashback, some
nitpicking. Can we get some consistency with the flashbacks, please? Either
use them more regularly or not at all. Pulling one out of the magic bag of
story-telling tricks every third episode is disorienting and lazy. OK,
nitpicking over.
Onto the flashback. We’re in the Antebellum South and a beardless Elam (he’s
only nine but I thought the man was born with a beard) is reading the bible to
some old white guys. One warns Elam’s owner, who’s also his father, that
teaching a slave boy to read is dangerous. The smirking slave owner brushes
him off. Elam might be able to read, but he can’t understand any of it, he
says. That claim is quickly refuted as Elam sits down with his family and
reads …
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