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‘Rectify’ Gets a Season 2 Already, Because Sundance Just Loves It Some Bleak!

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Go ahead, get your fill on Feel Good TV — your upbeat comedies, your singing competitions, your reality shows about various types of cake. But in between banquets of serotonin-spiking fluff, you’ll need a return trip back to Earth with some of the small screen’s darker, bleaker, more critically revered entries. Take the Sundance Channel’s newest series Rectify, a beloved addition to the our Monday night lineup, despite (or because of) its penchant to veer quite dark. As revealed in a press release, the series has been renewed for a second season on the network. The news comes after the airing of only two episodes, boding well for Sundance’s confidence in the sustainable quality of the hour-long drama.

A new project from Breaking Bad producers, Rectify stars Aden Young as Daniel Holden, a man released from prison after a 19-year sentence that followed a conviction for the rape and murder of his high school. girlfriend. What’d I tell you? Makes Twin Peaks look like Newhart.

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Rectify will kick off its 10-episode second season in 2014. The show follows the recent conclusion of Top of the Lake, the Sundance mini-series which was equally gripping and equally dismal. Let’s hope the network keeps this trend going… just so long as we can unwind with some The Nanny reruns afterward.

Follow Michael Arbeiter on Twitter @MichaelArbeiter

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