tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post2817908164965337863..comments2024-03-29T09:13:52.064-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Rectify: Weird As YouBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-80839731186610411952022-03-30T14:37:13.104-04:002022-03-30T14:37:13.104-04:00"Trey called Daniel a psycho killer, and Dani..."Trey called Daniel a psycho killer, and Daniel promptly threw him into a wall hard enough to break the fake wood paneling. Now what?"<br />Now Daniel spends the 10 years plea bargain in prison because violence is never the answer, no matter the provocation. *Strained smile*<br /><br />>>"How did Amantha getting stoned with her co-worker Alesha relate to the rest of the episode?"<br />I don't know but it was fucking adorable. Teddy was sweet there, and even better in his other scene with the sheriff and Foulkes. <br /><br />>>"I wonder if it's going to come out, anyway. It probably will. This is television."<br />This is RECTIFY! But... you're probably right. There's no way Foulkes is gonna let it go. <br /><br />Oh yeah I completely forgot the opening until you mentioned it. I kinda wish they found a way to do the whole song, because it's really good. I've heard Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" on Mad Men, but Rectify used the one by Dorothy Squires. <br /><br />|I know what you must be saying to yourselves<br />If that's the way she feels about it, why doesn't she just end it all?<br />Oh, no, not me, I'm not ready for that final disappointment<br />Because I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you<br />That when that final moment comes and I'm<br />Breathing my last breath, I'll be saying to myself<br />Is that all there is, is that all there is?<br />If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing<br />Let's break out the booze and have a ball<br />If that's all there is|<br /><br />So what the frig is Trey doing? It's even more perplexing to me now than the Hanna murder. He's going to make it look like Daniel killed George? What the hell is his problem?Onigirlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10070327483035350298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-83242667462013861012016-01-16T17:08:22.653-05:002016-01-16T17:08:22.653-05:00What a terrific comment, Ez.
I absolutely agree ...What a terrific comment, Ez. <br /><br />I absolutely agree about the excellence of Sean Bridgers' performance. He's got this sliminess and misogyny going on, along with the weirdness. "Weird As You" definitely applies to both Trey and Daniel -- they're both such oddballs. But it just feels like Daniel's oddness isn't evil, and Trey's is. <br /><br />I also liked what you said about Daniel and the grape soda. I think you're right.Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-13663250478485796582016-01-16T10:27:24.369-05:002016-01-16T10:27:24.369-05:00I rather liked this episode, although I totally un...I rather liked this episode, although I totally understand why you wouldn't, Billie. In a way I'd be disappointed if Rectify did give us straight answers about all this - it's just not the show's style. I think maybe the point is to show life and human beings in all their complexity and that real life's not that simple. "Peace in the not knowing", and all. <br /><br />That said, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Trey was the one who strangled her. And I definitely think he was one of the boys who raped her. He’s slippery as a barrel of eels, and a good liar. And I hate the way he speaks to his daughter and about Hanna, so we can gather he doesn’t have a lot of respect for women. At least George had enough conscience to shoot himself over whatever lies or half-truths he was coaxed into telling the cops. Trey didn't. <br /><br />I had no idea Sean Bridgers could be so scary from watching him on Deadwood and Justified! Amazing performances from both of them. That was about fifteen minutes straight of dialogue, and it's never boring.<br /><br />The grape soda thing - I took it as part of the manipulation tactics the police employed on Daniel to make him "confess" and the kind of odd detail that he would blurt out apropos of nothing, being Daniel. It was a sad, sweet reminder too, of just how young he was when this happened, young enough to be plied with something as simple as soda. Just a boy. <br /><br />One thing that bothers me about the prosecution's case against Daniel - he was found sitting next to her. If he really had killed her, why wouldn't he run? Why would he wait to be found by the cops right there, holding her hand? Presumably all the other boys had scarpered, and we do know for a fact that there were multiple assailants. At the very least, he was left by them to take sole responsiblity for something a group of attackers did. Whethere he was one of them or not remains to be seen, but it's hard to imagine Daniel participating in a gang rape.Ezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06973392170210759018noreply@blogger.com