Rectify
2013 · 4 Seasons · SundanceTV · Drama
Rectify is one of the quietest and most profoundly moving dramas in television history, a show about a man released from death row after nineteen years that refuses to turn his story into a procedural or a thriller. Ray McKinnon's series is interested in something harder and more honest than guilt or innocence: the question of whether a person can rebuild a life that was taken from them, and whether the people around them can handle the answer. Aden Young's performance as Daniel Holden is a masterpiece of restraint, and the show's deliberate pace rewards patience with emotional payoffs that land with devastating quiet force. Its final season received universal acclaim, and the series as a whole stands as one of the finest character studies television has ever produced.