#3. Rectify
(Season 3)
Take a step back, and you will see that the events covered in the first three seasons of ‘Rectify’ would fit into a single season of any other show. Heck, ‘Empire’ would have stuffed it into a single episode. So far, Daniel Holden (Aden Young, mesmerizing) has been released from a fifteen year death row stint for a crime he may not have committed, he’s done morally questionable things out in the real world as he adjusts to free life, and he’s ultimately banished from Georgia altogether. However, as anyone who watches this show knows, ‘Rectify’ is not about the plot points, but the people and the feelings that lie between those points. This is a show about family, love, commitment, happiness, fitting in, shame, and religion - no modern work of art, in any medium, captures southern life better. Simply put, it’s about life and every piece of baggage associated with it. The murder investigation is simply a stage for what it’s really all about. There may have been two better shows in 2015, but nothing felt as authentic, as true, as ‘Rectify’.
(Season 3)
Take a step back, and you will see that the events covered in the first three seasons of ‘Rectify’ would fit into a single season of any other show. Heck, ‘Empire’ would have stuffed it into a single episode. So far, Daniel Holden (Aden Young, mesmerizing) has been released from a fifteen year death row stint for a crime he may not have committed, he’s done morally questionable things out in the real world as he adjusts to free life, and he’s ultimately banished from Georgia altogether. However, as anyone who watches this show knows, ‘Rectify’ is not about the plot points, but the people and the feelings that lie between those points. This is a show about family, love, commitment, happiness, fitting in, shame, and religion - no modern work of art, in any medium, captures southern life better. Simply put, it’s about life and every piece of baggage associated with it. The murder investigation is simply a stage for what it’s really all about. There may have been two better shows in 2015, but nothing felt as authentic, as true, as ‘Rectify’.