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- 2015
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- 2015
- TV-14
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- 2015
- TV-14
- History
- 2015
- TV-14
- History
Texas Rising
Season 1 Premiere: May 25, 2015
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3.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
52
25% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
There’s doubtless some dramatic license here. No matter. It’s a classic campfire story, from a land that truly was the Wild West.
Texas Rising doesn’t have the urgency of “Hatfields vs. McCoys,” but Texas enthusiasts will enjoy the blow-by-blow reenactments of a crucial period in American history.
Richly textured and enjoyable if wildly uneven, the star-studded series tries to marry the hard-nosed, brutally violent realism of modern TV to an antique--some would say antiquated--aesthetic of genteel mannerisms and off-the-wall humor prevalent during the first golden age of TV in the 1950s and '60s.
By the end of Chapter Two, many viewers might well be in the mood to detour elsewhere rather than follow Houston’s plea to “follow me a little longer down this twisted, bloody road.”
As directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields), Rising has some entertaining shoot-‘em-ups and showdowns, but Joffe is hobbled by the script, which forces him to cut away from Houston to give equal weight to Olivier Martinez’s Santa Anna, the leader of the Mexican army and president of the country, and the subject of some of Rising’s most tedious storytelling.
What should be a sweeping, exciting epic about Texas' fight for independence instead comes off as a muddled cross between a costume party and historic re-enactors convention.
The overall plotting is as disjointed as it is clichéd.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 47 User Ratings
3.2
23% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
6% Mixed
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70% Negative
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 47 User Ratings
3.2
23% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
70% Negative
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
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Production Company:
- A+E Studios
- ITV America
- Thinkfactory Media
Initial Release Date: May 25, 2015
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 3 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Nominations
