i was ready to love it on account of Phyllis Smith
sadly, no

technically speaking, every experience with a living, revived subject is NDE

it's infuriatingly lame, honestly

while i didn't like the show, i'm truly sorry we didn't get to read your comments on the matter. glad you, as somebody who had a NDE, found something that resonated with your experience. thanks for sharing

no
the old adage is show, don't tell
this series doesn't know how to do either
ambiguity needs to have a strong thematic core, only a well plotted/constructed and well filmed story can afford ambiguity. otherwise it appears as laziness and lack of skill to a seasoned viewer. i'm not saying the authors lack potential.…

precisely

i rarely use that word but it feels pretentious — and incompetent and confusing. illusions of arthouse grandeur with hokey new age sentimentality instead of beautifully filmed spiritual substance. i can imagine what this would look like in the hands of a more skilled author and i truly believe marling needs some…

speaking of that rare show with an actual point of view, that would be Rectify. that was something Marling and Batmanglij need to watch and learn from. their creation is appallingly amateur in comparison.

i'm starting to think she is a very silly person

the delusional angle seems like such an afterthought in my opinion because the series is so messily plotted and filmed and edited. in a well crafted piece of visual art you see the (subtle) clues and feel the ambiguity, here the amateurish shifts in perspective only leave the viewer with a sense of incompetence and…

i'm truly frustrated with this show, it's not a bad premise (even though they seem to be self congratulatory smug about it at times) but it's infuriatingly overwritten and boy oh boy, the series format really exposed the authors' weaknesses.

the writers obviously had some knowledge of the occult and anthropology but subtext be damned if the visual component strikes the uninformed viewer as silly rather than beautiful and mysterious. the movements were appallingly choreographed and tedious.

i would probably enjoy it more if she cast somebody else as the lead character, the somewhat unnerving fact that she both writes and plays these prophetic angelic characters is starting to interfere heavily with my suspension of disbelief

i'm starting to wonder about Marling's possible messiah complex, this is the second thing she penned and cast herself as a prophetic cultish figure

- somewhere in all of this I've managed at times to fight for myself, for some reason. to fight for my life, for some reason. and I survived, for some reason. and here I am, still, for some reason. and me not knowing that reason doesn’t diminish it or invalidate it, or disprove its existence. and that’s what I’m going…

that's just it. that it's okay to feel. that change is possible. how important it is to be open. that other people are not just hell but heaven, as well. that intimacy heals. it was a lesson in mindfulness, as well. a lesson in mysticism. it taught me about the human experience. it was as important to me as the…

Mr McKinnon, thank you. words fail to describe how important and helpful Rectify was to me. how deeply it touched me. how encouraging it was in moments when i felt completely closed off from the world. i am profoundly grateful for your work. it will stay with me for as long as i live. best of luck from Eastern Europe

well, the last time i tuned in, a witch was using a penis she stole from a minion as a dildo on her puritan male lover, afterwards turning the said penis into a bird and putting it into a bird cage. and then they switched to marilyn manson without makeup playing a sweeney todd/mrs lovett of sorts, as the local barber…

true. Rectify is psychologically and spiritually educational, therapeutic and invigorating. its profound, simple, loving decency is amazing in its genuineness. i find it aspirational.
sublime zen-americana.

such a travesty we're not getting any space for PLM comments this year. that last episode was astounding.