We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered – a review of “East Texas Hot Links”

'Burgh Vivant: In the summer of 1955, a colorful cast of characters comes out to drink some homemade hooch, feed the jukebox and play cards at a woodsy Jim Crow era “colored-only” bar in Eugene Lee’s “East Texas Hot Links.”

Charlesetta (Cheryl El-Walker) runs the Top O’ the Hill Café with verve, even while fending off advances from Roy (Monteze Freeland), and breaking up battling brothers-in-law, Columbus (Kevin Brown) and XL Dancer (Jonathan Berry).