I couldn't disagree more - and you seemed to have totally missed a few salient points:

I don't think you can use the "healing" to judge the time passed (since it always tends to be accelerated in TV/films).

Nowadays Apple would just like you to buy the word from them, preferably with DRM-protection.

I never said it was a zero sum game. Is that what you think critical reasoning does? When someone critiques one artwork, all other artworks profit or lose from said critique?

I never said the show didn't have potential. I'm still watching and hoping it will course-correct itself enough (and perhaps have an uptick of viewership in the final episode or two) to warrant a second season. As someone who wrote BIOS code in assembly in the early '80s, I have nostalgic reasons for wishing it would…

Well, I never said that Rectify or Masters of Sex didn't have flaws - and it's fine, of course, if you enjoy watching HACF as much.

I disagree. I think the reviewer is doing an admirable job noting (and even occasionally cheering) the show's minor successes - while pointing out the many problems - and backing his assertions up with reasoning. As you pointed out previously yourself, "…the show suffers from too many cliches."

"As Gordon explains in a drunken bedtime story to his daughters, the Cardiff Giant was a notorious hoax wherein a farmer planted a fake, fossilized behemoth in a field in order to attract attention and rake in some bucks. Then legendary huckster P.T. Barnum swooped in, copied the Giant, exhibited it as the real deal,…

'Nitpicking' involves small or unimportant errors or faults - this show is rife with large problems.

One of the reasons Mad Men was so well-received when it debuted is that, despite it's anachronisms and exaggerations of historical relevance - it got the ATTITUDES of the people of the period correctly much of the time.

Just re-watched it and I suspect that perhaps Peggy actually recognized Daniel, but was too polite to mention it. Maybe we'll see her turn up in Paulie at some point to visit Daniel.

"trinkled"

1) The SWAT team was exiting their vehicle and they got fired upon. The first person hit by a bullet is a SWAT member (in the leg).

Wow, YOU need to watch the scene again - you missed what happened completely. I just re-watched it and here's precisely what happened:

Palini bread.

That's not right: Daniel was sentenced to death - and that mean's death row and an isolation cell. What he told Teddy was that in the early years of his stay on death row, certain guards were either bribed or just didn't care, and they would let some death-row inmates rape other ones in the shower (obviously the men…

McKinnon and Young announced before the series began airing that this season would move time forward at a faster - and less regular - pace.

This show is just so well written that I trust McKinnon (as I have David Simon in the past) - and want him to get as many episodes as HE wants to tell his story, whatever that may be. So if he feels it's wrapped up in these 16, fine - otherwise let's hope he gets another season. Even with a small audience, Rectify has…

"I'm not sure if it's been discussed here but I found out that Ray McKinnon is the creator"

I don't think death-row inmates eat in a meal hall or cafeteria - in fact, they're fairly isolated from other inmates, so I'm not sure your logic is exactly correctly. But he was certainly under the yolk of authority and required to behave in a certain way - otherwise, as we saw previously, the SWAT guys were called…