EPISODE
The story of how the Texas Rangers were created. In 1836, west of the Mississippi was considered the Wild West and the Texas frontier was viewed as hell on earth. But this was a time of bravery, a time to die for what you believed in and a time to stand tall against the cruel rule of the Mexican General Santa Anna. At the end, the Texas flags stood tall and victorious, claiming a piece of history for all eternity.
11 April 1975, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
29 November 1952, Olean, New York, USA
April 26, 1989 in Mexico City, Mexico
22 August 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 March 1979, Calabria, Italy
26 January 1980, Waco, Texas, USA
31 December 1967, Houston, Texas, USA
12 January 1966, Paris, France
22 February 1969, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
15 October 1979, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
30 July 1996, Arkansas, USA
3 December 1968, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1970, Mexico City, Mexico
11 June 1955, Mexico City, Mexico
24 March 1947, Sanderson, Texas, USA
28 November 1992, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
May 26, 2015
"Follow me a little longer along this bloody, twisted road," says Sam Houston at the end of the second night. You could hear that as a plea directed at viewers. I'm not sure it's gonna work, Sam.
May 21, 2015
Texas Rising isn't very rich fare, but there's a lot of it.
May 29, 2015
Texas Rising offers a multistory sprawl, with perhaps a few moments of entertainment, but more often with stilted dialogue, and it is undecided, or worse, defensive, about the history.
October 04, 2016
It is perhaps to North & South what The Vikings is to Game of Thrones, not dissimilar, but starker, simpler and perhaps a little more instinctively brutal.
May 29, 2015
History Channel has made some ratings fictionalizing history, so here is more: a long, languishing 10-hour, five part miniseries, Texas Rising about the battles following the Alamo
May 26, 2015
[The cast] may not be enough to raise the entirety of Texas, but they along with rich historical details that go well beyond the usual Alamo myths make the series worth watching.
May 26, 2015
The cardinal sin of Texas Rising is that it is just dreadfully boring. There is a whole lot of talking but next to no doing. A handful of conflicts are over too soon and too small in scope for an epic production such as this.
May 26, 2015
I know the miniseries is set in the 1830s, but aren't we at the point now, in the 2010s, when we no longer want to see history reduced to offensive stereotypes and simplistic good versus bad morality?
May 29, 2015
In the end, this messy Texas tale will likely prompt viewers to forget about watching long before the Alamo is avenged.
