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Unhinged: Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. With Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron, Adelaide Clemens. Daniel questions Jon Stern's advice. Tawney reconsiders her choices and Ted, Jr. asks a favor. Janet makes an upsetting discovery. Amantha levels with Jon Stern. Sheriff Daggett investigates a lead.
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- Drama
- Stephen Gyllenhaal
- 2014-08-21
- Let me go.
- Verdict
By Matt Fowler
Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:57 pm
Warning: Full spoilers for the Rectify: Season 2 finale follow...
*While we don't regularly cover Rectify, it's an excellent show (and one of my current favorites). We figured we'd check in with it as its second season wraps up and gauge interest in potentially covering it more moving forward*
Even though it was a long shot, and too much of a game changer story-wise, for Daniel to actually up and leave Paulie, GA outright, as part of a "banishment" plea, I think we can agree that Rectify managed to use this arc effectively and emotionally.
And during the powerful debriefing toward the end of the episode, we saw Daniel show us just how his confession could have been coerced 19 years ago. When he was boy who wanted nothing more than to simply the leave the room he was in and see his father. So this time, against both Jon and Amantha's separate advice - and while stoically maintaining his innocence - he "confessed" to killing Hanna. Giving the whole false, coerced confession another try. "Will you let me go this time?" Daniel asked/accused Senator Foulkes. He was just a boy again. Wanting to leave the room.
"Unhinged" may have wound up, in its culmination, focused more on the actual crime than the show's ever concerned itself with - but its been a satisfying slow-burn of a mystery. I also loved how it's taken all season for Daniel's attack on Ted, which didn't even happen in the Season 1 finale (a few episodes before that, in fact), to boil into somet...
Aug 22, 2014 · Rectify wraps up season two with moving performances, but leaves enough mystery to bring us back for more. Spoilers ahead.
Season 2 Episode 10: Unhinged. Aired: August 21, 2014. Daniel has a problem accepting Jon Stern's advice, while Tawney rethinks her options. Meanwhile, Ted, Jr. seeks a favor, and Amantha comes clean to Jon Stern. comments.
Aug 22, 2014 · Daniel proves to be every bit of the coward his sister accuses him of being, but Young comes alive in his righteous anger, his profound sorrow, and his heartbreaking resignation. This year ...
Aug 22, 2014 · Daniel decides to tell her what happened between him and Teddy at the tire shop on the night of the baptism, that he hurt and humiliated Teddy. He called the moment “violent and unhinged.”
Aug 21, 2014 · HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "Unhinged," the second season finale of Sundance's "Rectify," in which Daniel has to confess his 'crime' in order to go free.
