The Monday Playlist: An Uneasy Life After Death Row on Rectify, Plus Brain Games
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Published 8:04 am, Monday, April 22, 2013
Impeccably written and acted, quietly suspenseful, almost unbearably sad in its aching poignancy, Sundance Channel's six-hour drama series Rectify explores the impact of freedom on the overwhelmed Daniel, his grateful yet apprehensive family and the hostile Georgia small town that still condemns him. Nothing about Rectify is ordinary, starting with the empathetic performances, including Abigail Spencer as Daniel's spitfire sister Amantha, who fought for his freedom with the help of Northern lawyer Jon Stern (Luke Kirby) and is having her own uneasy homecoming from Atlanta, and J. Smith Cameron as his welcoming but wary mother Janet. Last week may have contained the best moment yet, as Norman (Freddie Highmore) confesses his fears about crazy mama Norma (ferocious Vera Fermiga) right to her face, and she throws it back at him: "I scare you?" (Hee.) "There's something every mother dreams their children will tell them one day." [...] as the Hardy crew gets ready to storm the Mansion of Mad Followers, Psycho Joe executes an escape plan that involves his followers creating a diversion that puts (you'll never guess) another FBI official in danger. ... In an episode delayed a week by news coverage of the Boston tragedy, NBC's Revolution (10:01/9:01c) picks up with the embattled Capt. Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) bolting from the Monroe camp, leaving paranoia in his wake. ... [...] ABC's Castle (10:01/9:01c) performs its own Boston-related episode shuffle, wisely postponing an episode involving a bomb scare and replacing it with one guest-starring Ioan Gruffudd (Ringer) as a charming billionaire Beckett is assigned to protect, triggering Castle's jealousy. In back-to-back episodes, we learn the limits of our peripheral vision among other aspects of how our eyes can deceive us when it comes to focus and misdirection, and then we get to play with the fault lines in our perception of time. Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 hours ago.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Published 8:04 am, Monday, April 22, 2013
Impeccably written and acted, quietly suspenseful, almost unbearably sad in its aching poignancy, Sundance Channel's six-hour drama series Rectify explores the impact of freedom on the overwhelmed Daniel, his grateful yet apprehensive family and the hostile Georgia small town that still condemns him. Nothing about Rectify is ordinary, starting with the empathetic performances, including Abigail Spencer as Daniel's spitfire sister Amantha, who fought for his freedom with the help of Northern lawyer Jon Stern (Luke Kirby) and is having her own uneasy homecoming from Atlanta, and J. Smith Cameron as his welcoming but wary mother Janet. Last week may have contained the best moment yet, as Norman (Freddie Highmore) confesses his fears about crazy mama Norma (ferocious Vera Fermiga) right to her face, and she throws it back at him: "I scare you?" (Hee.) "There's something every mother dreams their children will tell them one day." [...] as the Hardy crew gets ready to storm the Mansion of Mad Followers, Psycho Joe executes an escape plan that involves his followers creating a diversion that puts (you'll never guess) another FBI official in danger. ... In an episode delayed a week by news coverage of the Boston tragedy, NBC's Revolution (10:01/9:01c) picks up with the embattled Capt. Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) bolting from the Monroe camp, leaving paranoia in his wake. ... [...] ABC's Castle (10:01/9:01c) performs its own Boston-related episode shuffle, wisely postponing an episode involving a bomb scare and replacing it with one guest-starring Ioan Gruffudd (Ringer) as a charming billionaire Beckett is assigned to protect, triggering Castle's jealousy. In back-to-back episodes, we learn the limits of our peripheral vision among other aspects of how our eyes can deceive us when it comes to focus and misdirection, and then we get to play with the fault lines in our perception of time. Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 hours ago.