NEW YORK (AP) – Abigail Spencer remembers being about to shoot a scene for last season’s “Rectify.” It was set in a hospital room as Daniel, played by series star Aden Young, came out of the coma from his brutal beat-down. At bedside was his devoted sister Amantha, played by Spencer.
Cameras were ready to roll.
“Then Aden whispers to me, ‘I don’t know what I’m about to do.’ And I was like, ‘Me neither!'” Spencer bursts into laughter. “It’s this magical thing: There’s only so much technical process you can bring. Then comes a moment of release.”
On this show, the word “release” is somewhat loaded.
Peabody Award-winning “Rectify” (which begins its third season July 9 at 10 p.m. EDT on SundanceTV) is a quiet yet painfully evocative drama about a man jailed two decades earlier for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend. Then, when his conviction was vacated thanks to new evidence, he re-entered his small Georgia hometown as a disruptive force who rekindled old questions that plague the community: Was he innocent all along? Or now is he getting away with murder?