What a desperately sad season finale. I had tears in my eyes a few times which rarely happens with tv shows. The scenes with Daniel's Death Row friend were just heartbreaking. And the closing scenes were just a massive kick in the balls for me as a viewer rooting for and believing in Daniel. To see him beaten so…

Although the show is also okay with her not being very likable all the time. In her scene with Tawney, Amantha's facial expressions were oozing with disdain. I fully sympathize with how angry that character would be with a person like Tawney in a situation like this, but I also thought Tawney was being sweet and…

I don't think Daniel actually raped Ted, but subduing him and exposing him in that manner is a form of sexual abuse regardless. Even though we are fuzzy on what actually happened this was a traumatic experience for Ted. It's also a challenge to his masculinity—which he held over Daniel in season 1—by the man who his…

I thought it was possible he was even actually screaming silently; how couldn't he scream?, but how could he offer his tormentor even more fuel?

I certainly see a lot of parallels between Friday Night Lights and Rectify, starting with its authentic, natural portrayal of a tightly-knit Southern small town, and reaching into its bittersweet, sublime mixture of struggle, guilt, and hope. I think that's one characteristic that's set both shows apart from their…

I really wasn't sure about Tawney last year, but have come around to think she will be one of the most interesting characters on the show.

I found Tawney's questioning her own faith a really good nuance, that lesser shows would have handled much more perfunctory. Great stuff.

I am dismayed and disheatened that there aren't more people here, as Headphone Princess said. I can't up vote your comment hard enough, by the way.
I only started this show over the weekend when Sundance was running a marathon of it; and I was spellbound by its fullness.
It gets what it means to be human on a molecular…

My favorite part of this episode is the huge disparity between what one character says to another and what the tone of the show seems to imply. To me, the conversation between Amantha and Tawny ("How could a loving God allow this to happen…" etc.) initially threw me off, considering the relative immaturity of this…

Loved the Tawney-Amantha scene. This show handles religion so well.

That final scene really was fantastic. This is just one of the best shows on tv, and I think any doubts that the show would crumble in the second season have pretty much disappeared.

The Daniel-Kerwin friendship is one of the most well-drawn, well acted things I've seen on television. Kerwin's honest and selfless and optimistic, and his ability to live vicariously through Daniel allows him to truly live, even if right now, he's dead (gosh, that "Because I know you" scene…still sticking with me).…

I recorded Rectify last year and just got around to watching it. WOW! What a powerful show. I love the relationship between Daniel and Amantha. When she told him she loved him in the final episode and he said it back, it just broke my heart. Are his feelings coming back? Was Love part of his old 'ordinary' that…

I don't think he raped him in a physical sense, but in a mental one. Teddy was  cocksure that he wouldn't have gone down without a fight in prison and possibly triumphed over his jailhouse rapists, so he suggested that Daniel didn't because he's less of a man and, possibly, gay. Daniel just knocked him out and…

I thought that area was Hanna's murder site, so if the new body was found there of a previous witness, it denotes guilt that's suspicious. It would throw a lot of uncomfortable questions Trey's way.  Moving the body might deflect some of that. Just my speculation, though.

Yes, I agree with this. I don't think that Daniel was reliving the rape & death of Hannah in attacking Teddy.  I think he was pushed in a corner by Teddy's taunts and wanted to prove to him that it didn't matter how little or how hard you fight back, your humanity is negated either way.

How do you rape someone with coffee? 
I think Daniel was making a point. Teddy mocked Daniel, implied that he didn't fight hard enough to prevent himself from getting raped, so Daniel made it clear that if he had wanted to rape Teddy, he could have.

I almost hope we never find out what really happened that night.  I know we will, and I'll be crazy until we do, but I love the way this is going.  His confession being more important than his guilt.  His dealing with the way his life is now (out of jail finally, never having had a grown up life, no longer having…

Yeah this is the most I have wanted to rewatch a season of TV in a long time. Also, the most I have been this emotionally affected by TV in a long time.

This episode really felt like the midpoint of the season. The narrative has little resolution, and some story elements seem to have been just dropped in with no development. While I understand that might read as a criticism of the series, I think it's more of a testament to the strength of what has largely been…