Now, like a good fan girl- I put my hardcore viewing goggles on, grabbed my @XfinityTV remote, and a cocktail and proceeded to sit my tail down and start a mini binge. Right? WRONG!!! the flipping episodes that were onDemand to watch were not working!! The run time was accurate, the commercial ad prior to the episode were fine. But, when the ad and the network identification finished- the screen was black! AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH! LOL have no fear, for I went to the INTERNET! lol I found them on the @xfinityGO app on my phone and got caught up, So, here's what we know thus far...We're (as in Cullen Bohannon) in Truckee, California. Sans our young Mormon wife and son, working for the Central Pacific railroad. The journalist, (Miss Ellison) is preggers from a down and dirty railroad hookup from last season. ;) Eva is working with Mickey and helping to keep his head in the business of his business (the saloon) while she runs the brothel.
Mr. Durant is still in the trenches trying to get his railroad ahead and despite his best efforts, without Cullen...he falls short EVERY time! He's resorting to selling land with claims that each plot is going to be smack dab in the middle of the country's LARGEST railroad hub!! (hasn't he been selling that load since Cheyenne?) Any-who, now his dealings take him into the web of Mr. Brigham Young (the leader, prophet and creator of The Church of Latter Day Saints) who, by the by is not as holy as it would seem in the history books in this drama. I say this, because in this depiction: He has been skimming cash off of the payment that he has been receiving from the Union Pacific before paying it out to his son, Phineas. AND also willing to blackmail Thomas Durant!! (Stuff is getting real on the railroad! maybe we should be calling it the REALroad!)
The Swede (after his travels with The Prophet) is in the Mormon camp (on the West Coast) working for the railroad.He has been buying guns secretly from the man (Chang) who has been providing the Chinese workers for railroad work. He also has his own agenda...as all these railroad men do! :) Meanwhile, Cullen has paired up with Chinese woman who has been going under the guise of being a man to stay with her father, the only family she had left after the war in China that sent them to America. Mei (who was known by the men as Fong) has been a refugee because she was betrothed to a violent soldier in China that she did not only not love, but feared. she converted her identity and worked like a man, She was only found out after a wound caused Cullen to look in on her/him only to find out the TRUTH in a very unexpected way! She begged to be let back on the tracks to work because if she had been found out as a girl from the rest of the men she would have been killed.Of course, the railroad must go on and it does as she continues to translate to the crews of Chinese workers for Bohannon.
Things seemed to go well until the Irish workers began to get uptight about the heavy presence of the Chinese workers and their inability to truly get ahead of them in any way the railroad was willing to help them with, That's when violence ensued and Chang was hung to die. had it not been for Mei's father and Cullen he would have been dead for sure.... Child, I was like- OMG!! Get him down, get him down!!! smh...moving on. during the festival of Tin Hau Don, Mei's father was gunned down. Mei is determined to return her father to China to be buried. Unfortunately, she was still a girl and not truly able to make it on her own, and here comes Cullen!!
Now, it seems that since Cullen is without his family and Mei is without hers, they have become much closer and things in the near future may be heating up in Truckee!! Stay tuned in and if your life's unexpecteds keep you from watching, I'll be here!
Keep Watchin' 'n' Readin'!!
Xoxo
