It's The Beauty That Hurts You Most -- Rectify

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TITLE: IT'S THE BEAUTY THAT HURTS YOU MOST
TYPE: FANMIX
FANDOM: RECTIFY
THEME: DRIP, DRIP




ABOUT THE SHOW:

Rectify is a Sundance Channel Drama about a man who spends almost twenty years on death row for the rape and murder of a girl before his sister manages to get the DNA evidence tested and he is released from prison.

It's not a 'has he done it?' show, and that is a good thing (imho). It's a show that is about a man who is lost in this world, not really grown up because he hasn't had time to live it, but also not a child anymore after the horrific things that happened to him in prison.

Have a trailer, because I'm not sure a great many people even know the show exists (and it's worth a watch, considering it's what drew me back into fandom after almost a year gone. :D Not that there is much of a fandom. Which is a shame.)

I can already say that this show will be without a doubt among my favorite five series of this year, and the fall season hasn't even started.

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ABOUT THE EPISODE:

Drip, Drip is a strange episode. It's full of Metaphors, illusions to biblical stories and hazy scenes and the first fifteen minutes or so are a surreal mind-bendy kind of experience. Not at least because we're not sure just how sane our protagonist Daniel is.

[This is a bit tl;dr. Sorry.]

In the previous episode, Daniel decides to let himself be baptized.
Not because he's a particularly spiritual person (he falls more on the zen spectrum á la Life's Charlie Crews; just with less fruit), but because Tawny, his step-brother's wife who is both a believer and an active participant in her church, is taken by the idea. She thinks he wants to be 'saved'. Daniel isn't sure if he's just attracted to her, or in love with her. Either way, he's not convinced this will actually cleanse him of his sins, but he'd like it if it did.

So this episode deals with Daniel's doubt. He's not sure whether to go through with it, he's worried about what his dead father would say and so for the first twenty minutes of the episode he's either sleep walking and dreaming, or he's having a road trip with the devil. We're not sure, and he's not sure either.

The only thing that we are sure of is that he does in fact let himself be baptized that evening. He opens his eyes underwater and thinks for a moment he's free of his sins. Manically, he tells Tawny that he's 'never been so alive'. But everything comes crashing down around him when he asks Tawny if he could kiss her and she is suddenly scared of him.

Daniel doesn't feel with god anymore. He doesn't feel clean. He doesn't feel safe. And he walks away from the church festival alone.





It's The Beauty That Hurts You Most from lyrate on 8tracks Radio.

MISSES - GIRLS IN HAWAII
There is always a clock / Gods beyond, by the curve /
What's the point to give in to desperation?

OBLIVION - WILSON
it's hard to understand, because when you're running by yourself
it's hard to find someone to hold your hand

MADONNA - JUDE
You are Madonna, you're Lady Divine / You are part Mother Theresa and part Valentine / Some man's pariah and a slippery slope / But to me you are the fire and I fly to my hope

WHERE THE DEVIL SLEEPS - GEORGE BARNETT
I was lost till you graced me / I've been lost since I was seventeen / This facade has set my conquests free / And I won't bow down at the rain man's feet

JUST MAKE IT STOP - LOW
Now I'm looking up from a ten foot hole / Seeing nothing but blue sky shining on my soul / As I untie the chord and untwist the knot

WALK WITH ME - MEMORYHOUSE
We gave ourselves to the current / A surface unswayed in our wake / I rest my head on your shoulder / And dreamt we were gone, but our names remained / Felt the pulse of the water / And left behind all my old ways

BABY'S FIRST STEPS - YOUNG HUNTING
As the water rushes down / And you look through your reflection /
Into the darkness that surrounds you / And you cannot hide the damage / You cannot bridge the distance / You can't pretend you're present

SEASON OF SERPENTS - ROSE WINDOWS
She moves her arms to see the clouds / but gone is he and sorrow bound / faced with the season of serpents / damned by the gods, by her words

THE BREACH - DUSTIN TEBBUTT
And you grow weak at your knees / I want you to know that / If all you’ve ever wanted was a dream /Then you know that I can’t help you.