The “Rectify” star returns to television with “Reckoning,” a crime drama about a homicide detective (Young) who's been chasing a serial killer for two decades.

Is rectify connected to Reckoning?

It was the pairing of Aden Young and Sam Trammell in “Reckoning” that first caught my eye. ... “Rectify” was for a particular eyeball, not the sort of show that made viewers swoon over the troubled protagonist Daniel Holden, played by Young with various degrees of understandable affectation.

Is rectify based on true story?

Damien Echols, who as one of the West Memphis 3 was convicted and served nearly two decades in prison before being released in part based on DNA evidence, wrote about the series in The Huffington Post: "Rectify is the story of a man who was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, and spent 19 years on death ...