Rectify 2.8

An episode of pivotal conversations and moments:

• Daniel confronts Tawney about what happened between them during the first season.


• Ted Sr. has a late night meeting with Senator Foulkes (but we don’t hear the dialogue).


• In flashback, Wendall confronts Daniel with some unpleasant truths about his character.


• Sheriff Daggett appears to be coming around to the idea that Daniel may not have done it. How is that going to impact on the big story arc, moving forward?


• Janet and Ted Sr. talk about their marriage/their love. The scene is both beautiful and sad, and cleverly fills in more detail on the back-story.

As is always the case, the pace is slow and the result is powerful, engrossing storytelling. 10/10

Rectify 1.6

Graveyard. This episode has lots of jumping back and forth between different people, in different locations, and it illustrates just how much this quiet little show has accomplished in only six short hours, and how deeply layered the world it puts forward really is.

The scene with Johnny Ray Gill near the end brought me to tears, and the graveyard scene that followed it was magnificent in it’s cruelty and violence. 10/10