Rectify (Sundance, 9 p.m.) — Series premiere. Aden Young plays Daniel, who after 19 years spent on death row because of wrongful rape and murder convictions is released from prison and now must readjust to life on the outside. If the premise doesn’t already suck you in, the fact that Rectify was created by Ray McKinnon (who directed Walton Goggins in The Accountant) and produced by Breaking Bad‘s Melissa Bernstein and Mark Johnson should.
Defiance (SyFy, 9 p.m.) — You’ve read the post, now see the show.
90210 (The CW, 9 p.m.) — There’s someone on this show named Robin Givens and that makes me think of Raylan Givens and now I miss Justified. F*ck you, 90210.
Bates Motel (A&E, 10 p.m.) — “Norma warns Emma that some things are best kept to themselves.” Like Gus Van Sant’s Psycho.
Daily Show/Fallon (Comedy Central/NBC) — Follow a shot of Betty Draper with a chaser of Joan Holloway.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Lochte, and Steve Earle on Letterman; Diane Keaton and Trevor Moore on Leno; Dennis Quaid and Abigail Spencer on Kimmel; Kat Dennings and Philip Kerr on Ferguson; January Jones and Adam Ferrara on Fallon; Christina Hendricks on Stewart; and Michael Pollan on Colbert.
