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Capsule review: ‘Tulia, Texas’
A made-for-TV doc recounting a shameful episode in recent Texas history, “Tulia, Texas” does a fair job of getting the basics across: how 46 people in a town of 5,000 (39 of them black) were corralled in a drug sting that, upon closer inspection, was riddled with holes and led by an undercover drug agent who turned out to have a history of theft and abuse of power. The scandal, which sadly played out in a familiar racial template, with only a few white residents proclaiming their skepticism about the charges, has been well documented already, though, and this recap adds little. Moreover, the chronology may confuse viewers who don’t know the case; it’s unclear, especially early on, that interviews are being conducted as the years-long saga unfolds, rather than after its end.
9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Dobie Theatre; 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Alamo South
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