I guess my expectations are much lower. Texas Rising is a mini-series created for mass entertainment and some historical education. They paint a large picture reasonably accurately. I don’t expect every scene depicted to be accurate down to the finest pixel. Heck, I’ve seen academics nit pick high school history books. Freaking out over the most tiny details. Put 10 historians in a room and get the popcorn ready. There will be some very intense arguments. Or go to a school board meeting when they are arguing over new textbooks to buy for the schools. No one is ever entirely happy with a textbook. They can’t include everything because they are trying to summarize several hundred years of history or maybe even a thousand years of history into a few hundred pages.
The one thing missing in Texas Rising is diaries. The History channel did a similar mini-series on the American Revolution. Quite a few characters (soldiers, housewives, even kids) had written diaries and they were used. It really gave a wonderful personal perspective on events. I’m surprised they couldn’t find any diaries from the Texas Revolution.