I watched all four seasons of this inappropriately pretentious but mostly beautiful bullshit and I still don't know if Daniel killed that girl or nah.
Is it important? Um, yes. The fuck I look like rooting for a potential rapist and murderer??? Tell me if the nigga is okay to care about! I guess that's the point, or one of them? Lowkey I have no idea what the real ~point~ of Rectify is/was. Not that everything has a point, or needs one, but if you watch Rectify you can damn well infer they tryna get something across, so bitch, what is it?? Don't play games with me okay. Your show is not superior enough for that. You have a whole ass character named Amantha, so stop it.
Lol but like, literally? The show is called Rectify. So that's the point I guess. The process, I suppose, of rectifying? But how you finna rectify when the facts aren't even clear and apparent???????? Never mind the audience or Daniel's family and community members not knowing the true tea; Daniel himself don't even know. Like?? What are you rectifying when you don't even know what it is you supposed to be rectifying, if anything at all? Like, do you know what I mean? Lol, it's obscene! But look, it's easier for me to bitch about it not being clear who killed and raped that girl (actually, it was made mostly clear towards the end of the series, I think?), than to kind of just focus on the spiritual aspect of the show, and acknowledge that is what the show was really about. However, this brings me back to talking about how pretentious the show kind of is, because the spiritual stuff could get, like, weirdly intellectual or something? Like Daniel read a lot, so the way he spoke about different spiritual things sometimes (to me) came across like a math teacher talking about math. You know how math teachers just like assume you know all the math shit because they do? It's like, bitch, simplify! Make this make sense to me, I didn't get a fucking Master's in Geometry! Daniel would almost be lowkey autistic how he spoke of spiritual stuff in his weird book-learner sort of way, but spirituality is more feelings-based?? Not, like, some words you read in a dry book by some old white dude? Eye dee kay.
I would recommend this show to anyone no matter what they believe in, because it just allows for you to ruminate about different spiritual things, which is good always, imo. But like I said it can get pretentious (and it's not good enough to pull it off), and then you have the flip of the Tawney character who is religious (different from spiritual, though they are not mutually exclusive, obvi) and you have all this talking and hemming and hawwing about Jesus and shit and Daniel transcending himself so he can forget about being butt raped and etc etc and it feels simultaneously like Yes, this needs to be on a show but also Please shut up and get over yourselves???
It's complicated.
The dude who plays Daniel, Aden Young, um? Where are his Emmy's? I don't know this dude from Adam or Eve, but I am pretty sure irl he is NOTHING like Daniel? I might be mistaken, but I think he is some goofy Cali white boy irl (eta: omg he is CANADIAN), but in the show he is like this soulful Southern dude with a gravelly ass voice and just...it seems like a complete transformation, but absolutely NO ONE FUCKING CARES? Girl, anyway!! This sum bullshit, like I think this is a great performance? Am I wrong? No! Awards are all popularity contests, pretty much, which works when someone I like is popular or they're in something popular, but is annoying to me when I like someone/something that like only four people in the entire world give a shit about. Great! Does no one watch this? lol it was on for four seasons. Someone was watching it. Right? Sigh.
Acting-wise overall, though? This show is pretty good. Like I think I recommend it for good-acting? Maybe. Yes. Like J. Smith-Cameron and Clayne Crawford and Aden and others? Idk, I think it's pretty good acting. Like pretty sure this show made me tear up on numerous occasion, so I think that's a sign of good acting because I try really hard to never have feelings lol so if you causing me to have an Emotion, you're doing something correctly.
Let's talk about my baes. So Daniel, obvi. Even though he was kinda...hmm. Like I deeply cared about him? But 1. the whole time i don't even know if he innocent or not. So it's like, awkward. And then more times than I liked, I'm wondering if I feel lowkey weird vibes from him because he a psycho and murdered his girlfriend and would do that shit again. OKAY, LIKE, WHEN HE STUFFED TEDDY'S ASS WITH THOSE COFFEE GROUNDS. lol, but like, who wasn't cracking up about that and didn't think Teddy's annoying, pressed ass deserved it??? Sigh.
WAIT LET'S TALK ABOUT MY SECRET LOWKEY NUMBER 1 BAE, TEDDY. Daniel's fuckin' uh...stepbrother. Teddy for me is equivalent to Hank from Breaking Bad. I used to HATE Hank's ol' bullying, annoying ass. But then I was like...FULLY ROOTING for him towards the ends of the series??? That's how it worked out with Teddy, though I came to love him pretty quickly. The actor that plays him...I think is mad charming or something? So like Teddy is this almost completely unlikable character (lol is he or do I just hate things too much/easily?), but the actor dude imbues him with likeableness? Btw, is that dude on a Lethal Weapon Remix right now???? I think it has Damon Wayans. It looks and sounds terrible but somehow I need it? Iono, but anyway I love me some Teddy. But I...hated being brought back to fucking reality concerning my love for him. Like when he was telling that story a little too casually for me about how he raped that girl when he was younger?? UHHHHMMMM! And then was like using it to teach his younger brother to respect woman and not rape them lol and ol' Troll Doll was like UHHHHH I would never do that? I was fucking screaming and Teddy is the worst and I need to not like him and think Tawney a bitch for leaving him lol.
Wait can we talk about Troll Doll? The youngest, most forgotten son? Literally no one cared about him and it was so funny. Was it supposed to be? This is primarily a straight-forward drama like there's not too much light or comedic moments to break up the heaviness, but they just had this straight-up hilariously ignored character. They ignored his ass so completely and violently it was almost slap-stick in nature? Very inappropriate for the tone of this show lol. Literally no one cared about him and I am not even joking and tell me why the one time he got a little bit of a story it involved him selling Furbys on what seemed to be some sort of 1997 version of Ebay??? Sigh, you can't make this shit up. Also why was his hair like that? He lowkey seemed sus, in like a...what is he mixed with sort of way. And now them ignoring him is a racism. There was literally like...one whole black person on this entire show set in the freakin' South. Girl, okay. Wait, do you think we can count Luke Kirby as a minority since he is Canadian and has that...hair?? We can and we will!! Diversity quota fulfilled, thank you!
Let's talk about who should've been ignored, but wasn't ever. And it was getting on my goddang nerves!!
Amantha.
I wish I would like...involve myself in message boards or some shit when I watch shows so I could see what the other people who watch (no one watched this shit) think of certain characters who pique my shitty interest (in either positive or negative ways). Amantha piqued mine in a negative way. I think I might have a thing...where I hate the actress Abigail Spencer. Remember when she was in commercials for a bit then she got a role on Mad Men and then they started putting her in other shit? And then she was in that HORRIFIC season two of True Detective and wasn't even close to the worst thing about it, but sigh, idk, this bitch get on my nerves. It's just some people you don't like lol. She's a fine enough actress, I guess, but I just...don't want to see her. She is SO ANNOYING. Watch I end up loving her because that always happens and I hate myself and want it all to just fucking end, but for now it's a full nah. And like, a character named Amantha? Really? God she was so annoying! And was it just me or was there like an incesty sort of vibe between her and Daniel (I love incest btw) (in a normal way)? But it's a testament to how annoying she is lol because it was like completely one-sided. Like Deb and Dexter on Dexter. Lol Deb was so annoying but I ended up rooting for her. Maybe if Rectify continued I would have eventch rooted for Amantha? I was getting into her and that dude who pulled up on her after her car broke down lol - they had a good chemistry. But Amantha was getting on my nerves being like some no-one-asked-for-this Southern Belle versh of Daria. Like girl, ENOUGH! Just..please. Please. And her working at the Dollar Barn or whatever and she had this attitude like...well, it's no one's dream to work at the freakin' Dollar Barn. Um, literally no one told you to do any of the things you did to end up working there, including applying to work there???
You see I'm so pressed about Amantha I prob lowkey loved her and I was DEF shipping her with Teddy lowkey. You know, if I wrote this show it would be so much better (worser). I'd have Teddy and Amantha getting into some weird shit FOR SURE; Daniel and his mom getting into some weird shit; the stepdad getting arrested on child porn charges (natch); fucking uhhhhhh brokedown Michelle Williams getting ass-blasted on the reg by revealed-2-be-actual-legit-crazy Mr. Holden; the forgotten son having a lyme disease storyline and no one still cares - this show would be far litter if I wrote it but also it would've been cancelled like five seconds into the pilot ep, so. Here we are.
Can we talk about the final season and how lowkey trash it was? I'm guessing this show was force-ended? Cuz this coulda been a six seasons (no movie) type of deal. There was def more story. OF COURSE, because they were just haphazardly piecing together the fucking mystery of who raped and killed Daniel's high school girlfriend. That's a whole season and a half right there and they was just stuffing that shit in in like three episodes. They def could have cleared that shit up in previous seasons, though, but they was playing games having Daniel ~confess~ and that mess with him having to leave the state forever and then the final season with him in a fucking halfway house with the dad from Smart Guy. Girl...
I did like the first episode, I think, of the last seaz where we just see Daniel's new depressing ass life. This show won't quit, or give his unlucky ass a break as far as I can tell. I liked his longer hair. Very hot and like, emo? Lol, most good. I felt so bad for Daniel when he had that room8 who was masturbating. Lowkey I forgot Daniel got raped? But then he reminded me and I wanted to die? I will never quit my bae okay, I love him and want him to have happiness. Even if he did horrible things but let's ignore that cuz look if the show not gon' spell it out than it never happened, mmkay??!!
But yeah last seaz was trash with that pregnant ~artsy~ chick. Like... sigh. lol. Having Daniel away from his family was really annoying to me. Full-no. You're teasing me the whole series with his relationships concerning them. I am sitting here waiting and waiting for breakthroughs and deeper connections to be made and shit but you pull some bullshit with him essentially betraying them and all the work they did (especially Amantha) and have him ~confess~ to the crime he just got freed from prison over, and then send his ass away to have him start the whole Man from Mars process all over again with a whole new crew. You barely scratched the surface with the first crew. I mean. Annoying!
Aight what else? Idk, I'm sad it's over even though I had my complaints. I always have complaints, I am a non-functioning depressive ass aquarius sun/gemini moon with a cancer ascendant, like I will never not be complaining, so. Do you think I am putting too much neg energy out into the universe and that's why Rectify was cancelled but The Big Bang Theory still persists and accidentally I started liking it? How did I even start watching it to get to the point of liking it (I watch TBS for Seinfeld and Friends reruns and shit just happens OKAY?) No!! I don't like it. But Sheldon is funny sometimes and Amy, sigh. If only Rectify had like...some Jews. Then it'd have a chance.
But anyway, qq: Was that random black maid person at the end Spike Lee's sister? I hate this show and being alive 100% completely.
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