Sundance Channel and New York Times

I get an enormous cable package, and in that Sundance is included.

But if you order Sundance a la carte, and it's not in your basic cable package, how much does it cost?

Is it possible that the lower ratings were because Rectify was on a premium channel and people couldn't afford it?

Mike Hale, a NYT TV critic, have me a weasley answer about not recapping Rectify, while that sordid The Affair is on its third year of recaps. "We can't cover everything." No, you can't. But you don't have to cover crap, either (Maura Tierney being the saving grace of that show.)

Rectify deserved a place at the NYT recap table.

I've started reading AV Club and Vulture, which I didn't before, since discovering Rectify. I typically get most of my TV news from the NYT - it should not have taken until season 4 for me to learn about the existence of this show.

Rectify and the final season of Wallander (another underwatched show), in which the eponymous detective learn he has Alzheimer's - the two most beautifully-sad shows on TV, ever. Because what happens to their characters happen to people in real life. I won't be happy if Dany and friends, et al are killed in the battle for Westeros, but they are fictional and not from our neighborhood, let alone our planet. Real innocents are executed by the state; real people to get dementia.

Kudos to the cast of #Rectify for making us feel for their characters.