Rectify

Six Episodes That Defy Easy Categorization: Sundance Scores With The Season's Most Unusual And Thoughtful Drama
The six episode "Rectify" is being touted as the first original series created specifically for the Sundance Channel. And it is quite unlike anything else that you're likely to see on TV this year. I mean this as the highest compliment. I was so caught up in this unusual and strangely powerful drama that I watched all six episodes over the course of two days. A word of warning, though, much of "Rectify" is left relatively open-ended. Also, much is left to interpretation. In this way, it may not satisfy those expecting more conventional television fare. In truth, the program is a little scattershot and even a tad overcrowded. I would have liked to follow certain characters or situations more thoroughly. What is does present, however, is absolutely mesmerizing. Chilling, spiritual, darkly humorous, contemplative, the show defies easy categorization. And with an anything could happen feel, I absolutely fell in love with "Rectify." Created by Ray McKinnon (an actor most recently seen on...

So much quality, you won't believe it's television
This journey down the rabbit hole of the real and mundane starts with the release of the protagonist, Daniel Holden, from death row after 19 years due to DNA evidence. Although his guilt or innocence remains unclear, the whodunit of it is beside the point. How he is to fit into any life and how we all fit together (or don't) is the show's concern. This slow burn series is thought provoking, nuanced, delicate and what I believe to be the best writing on T.V. ever. It is insightful to the human condition, hyper aware of the convenience, artifice, and convoluted nature of our modern life and the books and writing it mentions alone make it worth the watch. It gives you the gift of varied viewpoints with mirrors as well as pictures and I believe the actors are all doing their very best. Unlike a show like Mad Men (which I like) it doesn't try so hard to make you think, it coaxes you there, you want to rise to the material. Show runner Ray McKinnon, an underrated actor and...

Six Episodes That Defy Easy Categorization: Sundance Scores With The Season's Most Unusual And Thoughtful Drama
The six episode "Rectify" is being touted as the first original series created specifically for the Sundance Channel. And it is quite unlike anything else that you're likely to see on TV this year. I mean this as the highest compliment. I was so caught up in this unusual and strangely powerful drama that I watched all six episodes over the course of two days. A word of warning, though, much of "Rectify" is left relatively open-ended. Also, much is left to interpretation. In this way, it may not satisfy those expecting more conventional television fare. In truth, the program is a little scattershot and even a tad overcrowded. I would have liked to follow certain characters or situations more thoroughly. What is does present, however, is absolutely mesmerizing. Chilling, spiritual, darkly humorous, contemplative, the show defies easy categorization. And with an anything could happen feel, I absolutely fell in love with "Rectify." Created by Ray McKinnon (an actor most...

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