Culture Beast: ‘Rectify’ is Television’s Best New Show of the Year

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1 TELEVISION The Best New Show of the Year Sundance Channel's Rectify, which begins on Monday, is a weighty meditation on crime, punishment, beauty, and solitude. It is also insanely riveting television, says Jace Lacob. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 FILM 'Exorcist' Director Tells All In the four decades since he hit pay dirt with The Exorcist, director William Friedkin has staged operas, slapped actors, and seen Ashley Judd naked. He talks to Lloyd Grove about his new book. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 UNSCRIPTED Ryan Lochte Tells All Ryan Lochte talks to Anna Klassen about dating, showing up hung over to swim practice, his new E! reality-TV show—which begins on Sunday—and more. Read it at The Daily Beast The sequence itself seemed more like Norman's wet dream than an actual account of teenagers losing their virginity." READ IT NOW › 5 MEDIA The Times's Holocaust Blunder The short documentary Reporting on the Times, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, exposes The New York Times for burying Holocaust stories. Marlow Stern talks to the filmmaker. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 STREAMING Netflix Trips With 'Hemlock Grove' Netflix will today offer all 13 episodes of its latest original series, Eli Roth's horror drama Hemlock Grove. Jace Lacob on how Netflix has stumbled with this poisonous fare. Read it at The Daily Beast Strangest Celebrity Themed Weddings Best of the MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet Tribeca's Must-See Movies Best Celebrity Twitter Pictures In response to Justin Bieber Visits Anne Frank House, Enrages Internet : Hey, at least he went to the Anne Frank house and is now bringing it to the attention of a new generation of young people. And yes, what he wrote in the guest book was ultimately narcissistic. So what? — slander In response to MPAA Adjusts Movie Ratings System in Wake of Newtown and Boston Tragedies: It seems to me that television does a decent job of content-related warning. You know that a certain show contains sex and violence based on the disclaimer. I think it's actually a pretty good idea to list content factors. Kids aside, sometimes you just don't want to watch grisly killings over your lasagna on a Friday night. — SpicedApple

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