Rectify wraps up season two with moving performances, but leaves enough mystery to bring us back for more.
Daniel Holden didnt kill Hanna.
Over the last two seasonsRectifys writers have seemed ambivalent about how important this fact really was.
Thats not to say of course, that theres no room for experimentation.
And over six episodes it kind of worked.
The writers emphasized the profound strangeness of a world that was at once distant and intimately familiar to Daniel.
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Then came season two.
In the process, there were losses and gains.
Angsty adolescent half-brother Jared was perhaps the most conspicuous casualty ofRectifys new direction.
Or maybe it was planned all along.
Ive never hidden the fact that I dont sympathize with the man.
They laugh and play as lovers would, but somehow it all feels forced an unnatural.
And so is the case with Momma Holden, Ted Sr. and even Amantha.
And it is here that we finally, if rather ambiguously, learn of Daniels innocence.
But it is too late to care.
More than justice, we now understand that Daniel must set his family free.
But Ray McKinnon and co arent going to let us off that easily.
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Rating:
5 out of 5
