Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created

and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five

seasons, from January 20, 2008 to September 29, 2013. The main character is Walter

White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with

inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and

selling crystallized methamphetamine, in order to secure his family's financial future before he

dies, teaming with his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). The show was set and

produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Walter's family consists of his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) and children, Walter, Jr. a.k.a. Flynn (RJ

Mitte) and Holly (Elanor Anne Wenrich). The show also features Skyler's sister Marie

Schrader (Betsy Brandt), and her husband Hank (Dean Norris), a Drug Enforcement

Administration (DEA) agent. Walter teams up with lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), who

connects him with private investigator and fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and in turn

Mike's employer, drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). The final season introduces the

characters of Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) andLydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser).

Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. By the time

the series finale aired, the series was among the most-watched cable shows on American

television. The show received numerous awards, including sixteen Primetime Emmy Awards,

eight Satellite Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Peabody Awards and a People's Choice

Award. In 2014, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the highest rated show

of all time.

Main cast

Bryan Cranston as Walter White – a chemistry teacher diagnosed with Stage IIIA lung

cancer who turns to making meth to secure his family's finances. As his shady businesses

progress, Walter gains a notorious reputation under the name of Heisenberg. Cranston

stated that, though he enjoyed doing comedy, he decided he

"... should really focus on doing something else. But I think any good drama worth its

weight always has a sprinkling of comedy in it, because you can ease the tension to

an audience when it's necessary, and then build it back up again. Walt White has no

clue he's occasionally funny, but as an actor I recognize when there are comedic

moments and opportunities."[36]

Anna Gunn as Skyler White – Walter's wife who was pregnant with their second child prior

to his diagnosis, and who becomes increasingly suspicious of her husband after he begins

behaving in unfamiliar ways. Gunn sees Skyler as "grounded, tough, smart and driven".

Gunn sees Skyler's stalled writing career as her biggest dream, saying "I think she really

deep down yearns to be an artist and to be creative and productive."[37]

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman – Walter's former student, Jesse, is a drug dealer who

partners up with Walt and makes high-level meth. Paul sees Jesse as a funny kid. "He's just

this lost soul – I don't think he's a bad kid, he just got mixed in the wrong crowd." Paul

elaborated on the character's background, saying "He doesn't come from an abusive,

alcoholic background. But maybe he just didn't relate to his father, maybe his father was too

strict and too proper for Jesse." Paul compared the character's relationship with Walt to The

Odd Couple.[38]

Dean Norris as Hank Schrader – Marie's husband, Walter and Skyler's brother-in-law and

a DEA agent. At the beginning of the series, Hank was intended to be the "comic relief."

Norris, who has played several cops before in film and television, stated,

"Having played so many cops, I've talked with a lot of technical advisers, so I've

been able to pick up a lot. Coincidentally, one of my best friends growing up is a cop

in Chicago, and one of my other best friends out in LA is a sheriff. So I get to see all

the components of that culture."[39]

Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader – Skyler's sister and Hank's kleptomaniac wife. Brandt

described Marie as "an unpleasant bitch", but also stated there was more to her than that. "I

think we're seeing more of it now that she would be there for her family. But it's all about

her."[40]

RJ Mitte as Walter White, Jr. – Walter and Skyler's son, who has cerebral palsy. He begins

lashing out after Walter's cancer announcement. Like Walter Jr., Mitte has cerebral palsy,

although his is a milder form.[41] Mitte stated he had to regress from his therapy to portray the

character, staying up late into the night to slur his speech and learning to walk on crutches

so his walking wouldn't look fake.[42]

Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman (recurring season 2, main cast season 3–5) – a

crooked strip mall lawyer who represents Walt and Jesse. Odenkirk based his character on

film producer Robert Evans.

"I thought about Robert Evans because I've listened to The Kid Stays in the

Picture on CD. He's constantly switching up his cadence and his delivery. He

emphasizes interesting words. He has loads of attitude in almost every line that he

says. So when I rehearse the scenes alone I do my impersonation of Robert Evans

to find those moments and turns. Then I go out and I do Saul."[43]

Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo "Gus" Fring (recurring season 2, main cast season 3–4) – a

high level drug distributor who has a cover as an owner of a fast food chain Los Pollos

Hermanos. Esposito stated that for the third season, he incorporated his yoga training in his

performance.

"Gus is the coolest cucumber that ever walked the Earth. I think about Eddie

Olmos way back in Miami Vice. He was like dead – he was hardly breathing. I

thought, how is this guy just standing in this fire and doing nothing? Gus has totally

allowed me that level of flexibility and relaxation – not because he has ultimate

power and he knows he can take someone's life. He's just confident."[44]

Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut (guest star season 2, main cast season 3–5: part 1) –

works for Gus as an all-purpose cleaner and hitman, and also works for Saul as a private

investigator. The character of Mike has been compared toHarvey Keitel's Winston Wolf

character in Pulp Fiction, which Banks says he isn't trying to emulate: "I immediately tried to

put it out of my mind, quite honestly. His cleaner ain't my cleaner. But throughout this world,

you would suspect there had been a great many cleaners, whether government-run or

individual contractors."[45]

Laura Fraser as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (recurring season 5: part 1, main cast season 5: part

2) – a high-ranking employee of Madrigal Electromotive and a former associate of Gus

Fring. She reluctantly begins supplying Walt and Jesse with methylamine and helps Walt

expand his operation overseas.

Jesse Plemons as Todd Alquist (recurring season 5: part 1, main cast season 5: part 2) – an

employee of Vamonos Pest Control who becomes an associate of Walt and Jesse.

Themes and symbols

Moral consequences

In an interview with The New York Times, creator Vince Gilligan said the larger lesson of the

series is that "actions have consequences".[12] He elaborated on the show's philosophy:

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human

desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the

last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for Biblical atonement,

or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at

some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that's

become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's

a hell.'

In a piece examining the show in comparison to The Sopranos, Mad Men and The Wire, Chuck

Klosterman said that Breaking Bad is "built on the uncomfortable premise that there's an

irrefutable difference between what's right and what's wrong, and it's the only one where the

characters have real control over how they choose to live." Klosterman added that the central

question of Breaking Bad is "What makes a man 'bad' – his actions, his motives, or his

conscious decision to be a bad person?" Klosterman concluded that, in the world of Breaking

Bad, "goodness and badness are simply complicated choices, no different than anything else."[5]

Ross Douthat of The New York Times, in a response to Klosterman's piece, compared Breaking

Bad and The Sopranos, stating that both series are "morality plays" that are "both interested

in moral agency". Douthat went on to say that Walter White and Tony Soprano "represent

mirror-image takes on the problem of evil, damnation and free will". Walter is a man who

"deliberately abandons the light for the darkness" while Tony is "someone born and raised in

darkness" who turns down "opportunity after opportunity to claw his way upward to the light."[46]

Devotion to family

The show explores most of the main characters' connections to their families in great

detail. Walt justifies his decision to cook crystal meth and become a criminal because of

his desire to provide for his family.[47] In the third season he tries to exit the business

because it has driven Skyler to leave him. Gus convinces him to stay, telling him it is a

man's job to provide for his family, even if he is unloved.[48] In the final episode of the

series, however, Walt finally admits to Skyler that the main motivation for his endeavors

in the meth business was his own interest, in spite of secretly securing the 9.72 million

dollars (which is all that he had managed to salvage) for her and the children. Jesse's

loneliness in the early seasons of the show can be partly explained by his parents'

decision to kick him out of their home due to his drug-related activities. This parental

disconnect brings him closer to Jane, whose father berates her for her drug use. When

Walt crosses paths with Jane's father, he refers to Jesse as his nephew, and laments the

fact that he can't get through to him. Jane's father responds by telling him to keep trying,

saying "Family. You can't give up on them, ever. What else is there?"[49] Jane's subsequent

death, which Walt purposely did not prevent, is a major factor in her father causing the airline

crash at the end of the second season.

Even the show's more hardened characters maintain ties to family. In the second season,

Tuco Salamanca spends time caring for his physically disabled uncle, Hector. When

Tuco is killed by Hank, his cousins vow revenge. Their actions are further explained in a

flashback, where Hector explains to the brothers that "La familia es todo" ("Family is

everything"). Gustavo Fring's franchise Los Pollos Hermanos translates to "The Chicken

Brothers". This refers to the fact that the company was co-founded by Gus and a man named

Max, with whom he shared a close personal connection. When Max is killed by Hector

Salamanca, Gus vows to destroy the Salamanca family.[47] In the first part of the fifth season, it is

explained that Mike Ehrmantraut's intentions for being in this business were to provide for his

granddaughter's future and by his last episode we see him conflicted when having to leave her

in a park by herself once he's warned the police are onto him. While on the second part of the

season, white supremacist Jack Welker says "don't skimp on family", and lets Walt live after

capturing him in the desert because of love for his nephew Todd Alquist, who has great respect

for Walt.

Pink teddy bear

The pink teddy bear as seen during the second season

A motif within the second season is the image of a damaged teddy bear and its missing eye.

The teddy bear first appears at the end of the music video "Fallacies" for Jesse's band "Twaüght

Hammër", which was released as a webisode in February 2009 leading to the second

season.[50] The teddy bear can also be spotted on the mural on Jane's bedroom wall during the

final episode of the second season, further connecting the crash to Jane. It is seen in

flashforwards during four episodes, the titles of which, when put together in order, form the

sentence "Seven Thirty-Seven down over ABQ".[51][52][53] The flashforwards are shot in black and

white, with the sole exception of the pink teddy bear, which is an homage to the film Schindler's

List, in which the color red is used to distinguish a little girl in a coat.[54] At the end of the season,

Walter indirectly helps cause the midair collision of two airplanes;[55][56] the pink teddy bear is then

revealed to have fallen out of one of the planes and into the White family's pool. Vince Gilligan

called the plane accident an attempt to visualize "all the terrible grief that Walt has

wrought upon his loved ones" and "the judgment of God."[57]

In the first episode of the third season, the NTSB fishes the teddy bear out of his pool and Walt

later finds the missing eye in the pool filter. Television critic Myles McNutt has called it "a symbol

of the damage [Walter] feels responsible for,"[58] and The A.V. Club commented that "the pink

teddy bear continues to accuse."[59] Fans and critics have compared the appearance of the teddy

bear's face to an image ofGus Fring's face in the fourth season finale.[60]

The teddy bear was auctioned off, among other memorabilia, on September 29, 2013, the air

date of the show finale.[61][62] On October 29 of the same year, Aaron Paul posted production

pictures of Cranston posing with the teddy bear on Instagram.[63]

Walt Whitman

Walter White's name is reminiscent of the poet Walt Whitman.[52] The mid-season finale of

season five, "Gliding Over All", is titled after poem 271 of Whitman's Leaves of Grass.[64] During

the series, Gale Boetticher gives Walt a copy of Leaves of Grass.[65] Prior to giving this gift,

Boetticher, recites "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer".[66] In the episode "Bullet Points",

Hank finds the initials W.W. written in Boetticher's notes, and jokes with Walt that they are his

initials, although Walt indicates that they must refer to Whitman.

In the episode "Hazard Pay", Walt finds the copy of Leaves of Grass as he is packing up his

bedroom, briefly smiles and leaves it out to read. This occurs at an especially high point in his

life, where he feels that things are coming together and he is succeeding in all his ventures. A

poem in the book, "Song of Myself", is based on many of these same feelings, furthering the

connection between Walt's life and Whitman's poetry.[67] In the episode "Gliding Over All", Hank

finds Leaves of Grass in Walt's bathroom and opens it to the cover page where he reads the

hand-written inscription: "To my other favorite W.W. It's an honour working with you. Fondly

G.B." Upon reading this, Hank becomes visibly shocked, realizing the truth about Walter for the

first time, which provides the opening premise for the second half of the final season.

Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter, about

the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town

in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie

Hunnam), initially the vice president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself.

The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) is an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United

States as well as overseas. The show focuses on the original and founding chapter, Sons of

Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original,[12] referred to by the acronym SAMCRO[13] or Sam

Crow. This nickname is also reflected in the original title of the show, Forever Sam Crow.[14] The

Redwood chapter is headquartered in the fictional town of Charming, California, in a clubhouse

adjacent to the Teller-Morrow auto mechanic shop. Led by President Clay Morrow, and later Jax

Teller, the club protects and controls Charming through close community relationships, bribery,

and violent intimidation. In early seasons they are particularly vehement about keeping "hard"

drugs, and drug dealers, out of Charming.

Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3, 2008, on cable network FX. The series' third

season attracted an average of 4.9 million viewers per week, making it FX's highest rated

series ever.

Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as the

other members of Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their

families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies

that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.

Character Actor

Seasons

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Jackson "Jax" Teller Charlie Hunnam Main

Clarence "Clay" Morrow Ron Perlman Main

Gemma Teller Morrow Katey Sagal Main

Tara Knowles-Teller Maggie Siff Main

Alex "Tig" Trager Kim Coates Main

Filip "Chibs" Telford Tommy Flanagan Main

Robert "Bobby / Bobby Elvis" Munson Mark Boone Junior Main

Wayne Unser Dayton Callie Recurring Main

Harry "Opie" Winston Ryan Hurst Recurring Main

Piermont "Piney" Winston William Lucking Recurring Main

Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz Theo Rossi Recurring Main

Kip "Half-Sack" Epps Johnny Lewis Main

Nero Padilla Jimmy Smits

Recurring Main

Wendy Case Drea de Matteo Recurring

Recurring Main

Happy Lowman David LaBrava Recurring Main

George "Ratboy" Skogstrom Niko Nicotera

Recurring Main

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created

by Terence Winter. Airing on premium cable channel HBO, the series is set in Atlantic City, New

Jersey, during the Prohibition era and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Winter,

a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, created the show inspired by the

book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson

Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.[2]

The pilot episode, directed by Martin Scorsese, was produced at a cost of $18 million.[3] On

September 1, 2009, HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes.[4] The series

premiered on September 19, 2010[5] and completed its fourth season on November 24,

2013. HBO renewed Boardwalk Empire for a fifth and final season,[6][7] which consists of eight

episodes.

Main cast

Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (seasons 1–5) – the corrupt treasurer of

Atlantic County and its most powerful political figure, based on Enoch L. Johnson.

Michael Pitt as James "Jimmy" Darmody (seasons 1–2) – An honor student who left

Princeton for service in World War I; works briefly for Nucky before embarking on his own

into organized crime.

Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder/Thompson (seasons 1–5) – a young widow and

mother, she turns to Nucky and becomes his mistress, and later his wife.

Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden/George Mueller (seasons 1–5) – a former

Prohibition Agent on the run. Under the alias "George Mueller," he is a bootlegger in the

Chicago area working as the muscle for Dean O'Banion's organization, as well as Johnny

Torrio's organization.

Shea Whigham as Elias "Eli" Thompson (seasons 1–5) – Nucky's younger brother and

former sheriff of Atlantic County. Now works as part of Nucky's organization, based on Alf

Johnson.

Aleksa Palladino as Angela Darmody (seasons 1–2) – Jimmy's wife and the mother of his

young son.

Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein (seasons 1–4)[11] – a powerful New York gangster

who does business with Nucky. Charlie Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Siegel work

for him.

Stephen Graham as Al Capone (seasons 1–5) – a violent Chicago gangster who is the

right-hand man of Chicago crime boss Johnny Torrio.

Vincent Piazza as Charles "Lucky" Luciano (seasons 1–5) – a New York gangster and

associate of Rothstein.

Paz de la Huerta as Lucy Danziger (seasons 1–2) – Nucky's former mistress.

Michael Kenneth Williams as Albert "Chalky" White (seasons 1–5) – a powerful African-

American gangster in Atlantic City.

Anthony Laciura as Edward Anselm "Eddie" Kessler (seasons 1–4) – Nucky's assistant and

butler.

Paul Sparks as Mieczyslaw "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik (seasons 1–5) – an Atlantic City

bootlegger.

Dabney Coleman as Commodore Louis Kaestner (seasons 1–2) – Nucky's mentor and

predecessor in Atlantic City; Jimmy's father.

Jack Huston as Richard Harrow (recurring season 1; regular seasons 2–4) – a former Army

marksman who allies with Jimmy. Disfigured in the war, he wears a tin mask[12] over half of

his face.

Gretchen Mol as Gillian Darmody (recurring season 1; regular seasons 2–5) – Jimmy's

mother and friend to Nucky.

Charlie Cox as Owen Sleater (recurring season 2; regular season 3) – an IRA volunteer who

works for Nucky; also having an affair with Margaret.

Bobby Cannavale as Gyp Rosetti (season 3) – a ruthless gangster who challenges Nucky.

Ron Livingston as Roy Phillips (season 4) – a wealthy out-of-town businessman who finds

himself getting involved with Gillian Darmody.

Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Valentin Narcisse (seasons 4–5) – a Harlem-based philanthropist and

"Doctor of Divinity", who has plans involving Nucky. Casper Holstein serves as the

inspiration behind Narcisse's character.[13]

Ben Rosenfield as Willie Thompson (recurring season 4; regular season 5) — Eli's son and

Temple University student.

The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series

developed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert

Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. It stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick

Grimes,[3] who awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-

eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the

way.

The Walking Dead premiered on October 31, 2010, on the cable television channel AMC in

the United States.[4] It premiered internationally during the first week of November 2010 on Fox

International Channels.[5

Main Cast

Actor Character

Seasons

1 2 3 4 5

Andrew

Lincoln

Rick Grimes Main

Jon

Bernthal

Shane Walsh Main Guest

Sarah

Wayne

Callies

Lori Grimes Main

Laurie

Holden

Andrea Main

Jeffrey

DeMunn

Dale Horvath Main

Steven

Yeun

Glenn Rhee Main

Chandler

Riggs

Carl Grimes Main

Norman

Reedus

Daryl Dixon Recurring Main

Melissa Carol Peletier Recurring Also Starring[a] Main

McBride

Michael

Rooker

Merle Dixon Recurring Guest Main

Lauren

Cohan

Maggie Greene

Recurring Main

Scott

Wilson

Hershel Greene

Recurring

Also

Starring[a] Main

Danai

Gurira

Michonne

(Stand-in) Main

Emily

Kinney

Beth Greene

Recurring

Also

Starring[a] Main

David

Morrissey

The

Governor/Phillip

Blake

Main

Chad

Coleman

Tyreese

Recurring

Also

Starring[a] Main

Sonequa

Martin-

Green

Sasha

Recurring Also Starring[a]

Lawrence

Gilliard, Jr.

Bob Stookey

Also Starring[a]

Alanna

Masterson

Tara Chambler

Recurring

Also

Starring[a][23]

Michael

Cudlitz

Abraham Ford

Recurring Main

Josh

McDermitt

Eugene Porter

Recurring

Also

Starring[a][19]

Christian

Serratos

Rosita Espinosa

Recurring

Also

Starring[a][23]

Andrew J. Gareth

Guest Also

West Starring[a][23]

Seth

Gilliam

Gabriel Stokes

Also

Starring[a][20]

* ^ This actor/actress is not featured in the opening credits, and instead is credited as "also starring",

but is otherwise considered by AMC as a series regular.[24][25][26]

Talking Dead

A live after-show titled Talking Dead premiered on AMC on October 16, 2011, following the

encore presentation of The Walking Dead's season two premiere. Talking Dead features

host Chris Hardwick discussing the latest episode with fans, actors, and producers of The

Walking Dead.[65]

Companion series

In September 2013, AMC announced they were developing a companion series to The Walking

Dead, which will follow a different set of characters created by Robert Kirkman.[66] In September

2014, AMC ordered a pilot to go into production in late 2014, which was written by Kirkman and

Dave Erickson. It will be executive produced by Kirkman, Erickson, Gale Anne Hurd and David

Alpert, with Erickson to serve as showrunner.[67]

Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of

the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series, which features Colm

Meaney, Common, and Dominique McElligott, follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its

surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who lived, worked and died in the

mobile encampment called "Hell on Wheels" that followed the railhead west across the Great

Plains. In particular, the story focuses on Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate

soldier (played by Anson Mount) who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the

railroad, initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young

son during the American Civil War.

The series, which was created and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton, is broadcast in the

United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC and premiered on November

6, 2011.

On November 8, 2011, co-creator Joe Gayton spoke of the series' origins. "We [Tony and I]

started talking and remembered this story, American Experience, which was this really great

documentary, and I thought, 'God, that’s great. I just learned a bunch of stuff I had never

learned before.' You just have this cursory information that the Chinese and the Irish built the

railroad, but it got in underneath all the dirt and stuff that went on, with the financing of it, and

the greed and corruption. And then, I heard about this Hell on Wheels place and I went, 'What

a great setting for a western.' So, we pitched that to Jeremy Gold [at Endemol] and ended up

taking it to AMC, and they loved it," he said.[16]

Main cast

Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who is determined to

avenge the deaths of his son and his wife, Mary.

Colm Meaney as Thomas "Doc" Durant, a businessman and investor in the First

Transcontinental Railroad, where he hopes to make his fortune.

Common as Elam Ferguson, a recently freed slave who is trying to find his place in the

world. He works as security and general assistant to Bohannon.

Dominique McElligott as Lily Bell, a recent widow; her husband was a surveyor working on

the transcontinental rail project.

Tom Noonan as Reverend Nathaniel Cole, a minister who formerly participated in Bleeding

Kansas prior to the Civil War; he is sick of the slaughter and wants to help the whites and

Indians avoid another war.

Eddie Spears as Joseph Black Moon, a Cheyenne who must choose between the new

world and the traditions of his ancestors.

Ben Esler as Seán McGinnes, an ambitious young Irishman looking to make his fortune in

the West.

Phil Burke as Mickey McGinnes, Sean's brother, who has travelled with Seán to America.

Christopher Heyerdahl as Thor Gundersen, Durant's head of security. He is known as "the

Swede", even though he is Norwegian.

Robin McLeavy as Eva, a woman with a prominent chin tattoo given to her while in the

captivity of Indians. She initially supports herself by working in the Hell on Wheels brothel.

Kasha Kropinski as Ruth, Reverend Cole's abandoned daughter and the heir to his church.

Dohn Norwood as Psalms Jackson, a freed former slave and criminal, whose prison

sentence has been purchased by the railroad.

Jennifer Ferrin as Louise Ellison, a smart, witty, and flirtatious journalist hired by the New

York Sun to cover the "story of the century".

Chelah Horsdal as Maggie Palmer.

MacKenzie Porter as Naomi Hatch, Aaron Hatch's daughter and Cullen's second wife.

Siobhan Williams portrayed Naomi in a recurring role in the third season.

Tayden Marks as Ezra Dutson, only survivor of the Swede's massacre.

Jake Weber as John Allen Campbell, Wyoming's first governor.

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