The debut season of the drama series “Rectify” focuses on the efforts of Daniel Holden (Aden Young), a convict who spent 19 years on death row, to reindoctrinate himself into society and reacquaint himself with his family in a small Georgia town after DNA testing overturns the verdict in his murder trial. His efforts to make a new life are complicated by the politician ( Michael O’Neill ) who was instrumental in putting him behind bars, who makes it his business to see that Daniel gets sent back to jail.