Ray Liotta plays a fictional character. I have no idea why they feel they need that. The story stands on its own.

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So whose this guy who "escaped" the Alamo supposed to be???

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There's always been some story about a survivor who snuck away.

I'm only seeing about 2/3 of this show thanks to EAS alerts.

Im apalled at the scenery in the show. There are now mountains or cliffs between San Antonio and Houston. Very inaccurate. It's like they shot the film at the Gaudalupe mountain range.

Nacogdoches is in the desert too

So now we have an 1880's Dodge City gun fight in a the Great Plains of Nacogdoches. This is unwatchable. But I'll watch it anyway. I always do...

The vikings is great, but this is garbage. I turned it off after 15 minutes.

Does History make Vikings? I thought they just carried it, or were partners or something.

San Antonio is in the llano estacado. Gonzales is on the Palo Duro. And Nacogdoches is on the great plains.

I must have dozed off in Texas Geography 101.

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Does History make Vikings? I thought they just carried it, or were partners or something.

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To be honest, I have no idea.

I'll continue to watch it as it was slightly entertaining but these "liberties" they are taking are just downright dumb. How the hell does Gonzales look like it's some arid, desert terrain? And Ray Liotta's character while cool that he survived and is on some revenge quest, is obviously not historical. Also, I don't recall that Houston had some long festering wound. Oh, and the Karankawa raiding as far in as SA? Not that I remember. Lot's of liberties taken and just seems like lazy writing to me. Oh well, i'll still watch it but man sometimes it's painful to watch if you have even a basic understanding of Texas History.

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How the f does the same channel that makes Vikings produce this garbage????? Did the same people that makes Ancient Alien Artifacts in my Local Pawn Shop next to the Swamp decide to make a parody about the history of Texas?

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It's actually the same folks who made Hatfields and McCoys which adds to my disappointment because H&M was great.

The geography of Texas looks so different than I had pictured...

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The geography of Texas looks so different than I had pictured...

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Looks a little like Tombstone.

Seeing the latest trailer in the movie theater this weekend, any hopes I had were dashed, as they were obviously going to AT LEAST hang heavy on fictional myths and then run wild from there (trailer had a heavy dose of Yellow Rose, but painted to be a Turn-like conspiracy). Reading your responses makes it seem even worse than I would have thought.

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Im apalled at the scenery in the show. There are now mountains or cliffs between San Antonio and Houston. Very inaccurate. It's like they shot the film at the Gaudalupe mountain range.

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Probably consulted with Michael Bay on the geography he used from Transformers 4. Anybody spot any big, solitary trees strung with lights?

I saw "A Million Ways to die in the West" a couple of weeks ago.

It was better than this. The only thing that I can think of that is worse than this is Part 3 of Atlas Shrugged.

I had set this to record. Appreciate the responses to let me know to delete and forget about this series.

I'll never get that 35 minutes back. I couldn't get past the desert of Gonzalez.

My 8 year old liked it.. .. i wonder if Danes complain about Vikings as much as we complain about Texas Rising

GonzaleS is only a ten minute horse ride to Goliad... Takes me a little over an hour in my car going 70mph

Just looked it up. The guy that directed this is French.

Texas water level rising.

AMIRITE?

I don't really have a problem with historical inaccuracies, or outright alternate fiction as long as the story is good. (Like Inglourious Basterds - completely fictional but set in a historical setting). But Texas Rising is both inaccurate and boring.

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I'll continue to watch it as it was slightly entertaining but these "liberties" they are taking are just downright dumb. How the hell does Gonzales look like it's some arid, desert terrain? And Ray Liotta's character while cool that he survived and is on some revenge quest, is obviously not historical. Also, I don't recall that Houston had some long festering wound. Oh, and the Karankawa raiding as far in as SA? Not that I remember. Lot's of liberties taken and just seems like lazy writing to me. Oh well, i'll still watch it but man sometimes it's painful to watch if you have even a basic understanding of Texas History.

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Actually the bit about Houston was one thing that they actually did get right, as he did suffer from a long-festering, unhealed wound in the groin which he received while fighting against the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. There has been some speculation that it was a major cause of the breakup of his first marriage, as supposedly his wife was so physically repulsed by what she later called his "dreadful injury" of emasculation that she left him, but as with so many things in Houston's life, that is still a matter of ongoing debate.

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Just looked it up. The guy that directed this is French.

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That explains it.

Over all it's pretty laughable, especially the karankawas. Hate to say it, but I figured this series would be rough to watch. Frustrating because like some other posters said, it's like they're not even trying. And there's no need to make the story fictional, it should be entertaining enough.

The history channel of ten years ago would never out something out like this :/

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I'll continue to watch it as it was slightly entertaining but these "liberties" they are taking are just downright dumb. How the hell does Gonzales look like it's some arid, desert terrain? And Ray Liotta's character while cool that he survived and is on some revenge quest, is obviously not historical. Also, I don't recall that Houston had some long festering wound. Oh, and the Karankawa raiding as far in as SA? Not that I remember. Lot's of liberties taken and just seems like lazy writing to me. Oh well, i'll still watch it but man sometimes it's painful to watch if you have even a basic understanding of Texas History.

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Actually the bit about Houston was one thing that they actually did get right, as he did suffer from a long-festering, unhealed wound in the groin which he received while fighting against the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. There has been some speculation that it was a major cause of the breakup of his first marriage, as supposedly his wife was so physically repulsed by what she later called his "dreadful injury" of emasculation that she left him, but as with so many things in Houston's life, that is still a matter of ongoing debate.

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Thanks for the insight. Didn't realize that was accurate.

IMDB gave it 8.9/10...lol

By the end I was expecting aliens to show up and aid the Texans.

Terrible.

Anyone going to keep watching? I think I'm done.