The best crime dramas can keep audiences guessing about who committed a murder. But the truly elite? They’re better off when they tell us what happens when it seems like the investigation is over. While shows like Mindhunter and True Detective have built enormous followings by exploring the darker corners of criminal investigations, one of the most critically acclaimed dramas of the 2010s took a much quieter approach. And despite earning the sort of reviews most television creators could only dream of, it somehow managed to remain relatively overlooked. Until now, perhaps.
All four seasons of Rectify have officially arrived on Netflix in the United States, joining the streaming service on November 1. The acclaimed drama originally aired on SundanceTV between 2013 and 2016, producing 30 episodes and earning widespread critical acclaim throughout its run, even winning one of the most prestigious awards going.
When Daniel Holden is released after nearly 20 years of complete isolation on Death Row, he returns as an outsider to his family, to his community, and to the times. Somehow, he survived the mental and emotional strain of his imprisonment, but now the walls have suddenly come crumbling down, and Daniel is set free in a world he no longer understands. He’s an outsider, lost in a once familiar world, struggling to navigate his newfound freedom. Combined with two decades of technological and social changes to his small town and the larger world, everything he encounters is a puzzle.
- The Wachowskis’ 1999 film won four Academy Awards, including Visual Effects and Film
Editing. - Bullet time was shot with a rig of roughly 120 still cameras firing in sequence around the
actors. - Keanu Reeves trained in martial arts for about four months before a frame was shot,
recovering from neck surgery the whole time. - It opened the same year as Fight Club and eXistenZ, in a run of films about not trusting the
world in front of you.
- Mad Max: Fury Road won six Academy Awards in 2016, more than any other film that year.
- George Miller storyboarded the entire film as roughly 3,500 panels before there was a
script. - The chase was shot almost entirely practical in the Namib Desert, with real vehicles and
real stunt performers. - Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth carried the prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in 2024.
- Blade Runner 2049 won Roger Deakins his first Oscar for cinematography, on his fourteenth
nomination. - The film also took Best Visual Effects, 35 years after Ridley Scott’s 1982 original.
- Villeneuve shot it on large-format film and kept the fog and rain practical on set wherever
he could. - Three short films by Luke Scott and Shinichiro Watanabe bridge the 30-year gap between the
two movies.
- Denis Villeneuve’s Dune won six Academy Awards in 2022, including Cinematography and
Original Score. - Hans Zimmer turned down Christopher Nolan’s Tenet so he could score Dune instead.
- Dune: Part Two arrived in 2024 and brought in Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher
Walken. - David Lynch’s 1984 version and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade one are both their
own legends by now.
- The 1977 original won six Academy Awards plus a special achievement award for sound effects.
- John Williams’ score was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and became the
best-selling symphonic film soundtrack ever. - Andor took the galaxy somewhere colder and earned Emmy nominations for drama series in both
seasons. - The saga now runs across eleven feature films and a growing shelf of series on Disney+.
Who Stars in ‘Rectify’?
The cast stars Aden Young (The King Tide) as Daniel Holden, Abigail Spencer (Timeless) as Amantha Holden, Adelaide Clemens (Silent Hill: Revelation) as Tawney Talbot, Clayne Crawford (Lethal Weapon) as Ted Talbot Jr., J. Smith-Cameron (Succession) as Janet Talbot, Bruce McKinnon (Lawless) as Ted Talbot Sr., Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) as Jon Stern, and Sean Bridgers (Get Shorty) as Trey Willis. The show is created by Ray McKinnon (Deadwood).
Rectify was met with universal acclaim from critics and audiences, receiving a score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the audience score not far behind at 92%. Its third and fourth seasons both earned perfect 100% critics’ scores, while the final season achieved an extraordinary 99 out of 100 on Metacritic; it also received a coveted Peabody Award, which shows just how highly regarded it was.
All 30 episodes of Rectify, spanning four seasons, are streaming now on Netflix in the United States.
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