“Rectify” creator Ray McKinnon defended the explain’s primarily white cast at the Television Critics organization (TCA) Summer Press tour on Sunday.
The SundanceTV drama is set in rural Georgia and follows a man who is cleared and released from death row after serving 19 years for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. When asked whether or not the explain will address the country’s increasingly tense racial dynamics in its fourth and final season,McKinnon said that’s not the explain he set out to make.“I grew up in a small town in Georgia. There are a lot of African-Americans in small towns in the South and they’re portrayed in our explain,” he said. “I didnt want to make a statement about race in America or in the South for this explain. I wanted to tell a story about a family.”
Also Read: 'Rectify' to End After Season 4The fourth season of “Rectify” premieres on Oct. 26, or will see Aden Young‘s character Daniel Holden enter a halfway house in Nashville after being banished from Georgia in at the end of Season 3. McKinnon said that like preceding seasons,Daniel will encounter African-American characters, but race will not necessarily be at the forefront of the explain.“We don’t make a statement about it, or it’s just a reflection of our research of a specific state in Nashville called Project Return that had a lot of African-American leaders,” he said, adding that the story examining race in the South is a explain worth telling.”“Hopefully we’re going to tell a piece of that explain, or but ultimately [“Rectify”] is still a story about a guy who was in a box for 19 years,” he said.
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