Saving Grace: Season One
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Actor: Holly HunterBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 576 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Saving Grace: Season One
Movie Review: Edgy, Emotional, and Raw
Summary: 5 Stars
SAVING GRACE, starring Holly Hunter and Leon Rippy, quite simply takes my breath away. This show is an unfiltered look at the life of police detective Grace Hanadarko (Hunter) who works in the Oklahoma City major crimes division. Grace feels responsible for the death of her sister in the Oklahoma City bombing, and she is well down the path of total self destruction, taking all of her guilt, anger, and frustration out on herself. While Grace excels at her job, is compassionate with victims and their families, is devoted to her nephew and her dog (Gus), and is a dedicated friend, she is also a hard-hitting, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed, booze-swilling, bed-hopping mess. Grace is almost beyond redemption.
Almost beyond redemption, but not quite. Into her life comes Earl. Earl was quite literally sent to Grace by God. He is her "last chance angel." Wings and all. It is Earl's job to help Grace redeem herself, and help her stop her tail-spin into Hell. And so the sparring begins. Let me make it clear that this is not a show about religion. It is not. SAVING GRACE is about faith, forgiveness, and healing.
Holly Hunter is brilliant in this role. She is gutsy, raw, honest, and in your face. She never pulls a single punch. She is not always likeable, but she is always real, believable, and passionate. Leon Rippy as Earl, a good ole boy who just happens to be one of God's handymen, is warm, friendly, and very likeable. Although he is not human, he likes to sample the tamer human pleasures (food, warm showers, shopping, world travel, etc.), and he provides the perfect counterpoint to Hunter's irrepressible Grace.
The rest of the cast are all superb (including Laura San Giacomo as the OKC version of CSI and Grace's devoted pal since childhood); a fantastic ensemble that rounds out the show and completes the total package. The interactions, the timing, the humor, and the emotions are all dead on. The camaraderie of this cast come shining through; they clearly enjoy what they are doing. The writing and the dialogue are tight and terrific. This is a superior show, week after week.
Please be advised that this IS a very adult show. Language, nudity, sex, uncomfortable topics; there are no holds barred. But that is part of what makes SAVING GRACE the out of the ballpark hit that it is.
Summary of Saving Grace: Season One
SAVING GRACE:SEASON 1 - DVD MovieThere are very few television shows that revolve around a single figure to the extent that Saving Grace does. Then again, there are even fewer that can boast an actor as good as Oscar winner Holly Hunter in the lead role, and Hunter draws on her considerable chops and charms to bring to life a character who, while certainly sympathetic, isn?t always especially likable. Her Grace Hanadarko, a detective working for the Oklahoma City Police Department?s Major Crimes division, is a mess. We?re barely into the pilot episode (the first of thirteen comprising the show?s first season) before we discover that her married partner is just one of Grace?s many bedmates (promiscuous is one way to describe her; slut is another), and that she?s a heavy smoker and drinker and a foul-mouthed, habitual liar. And that?s on her good days. There are reasons for all of this, of course--turns out that the death of her sister in the 1995 terrorist bombing that claimed 168 lives is just one of them--but it?s only when Grace commits a particularly stupid and reckless act that the potential for redemption appears in the form of Earl (Leon Rippy), a tobacco-chewing good ol? boy who just happens to be an angel. A "last chance angel," to be exact, who suggests that if Grace will simply turn herself over to God, good things will ensue.
It won?t be easy. Despite Earl?s good-natured appeals (along with an occasional spectacular display of God?s awesome powers), Grace is nigh on incorrigible. And while each episode features a crime of some sort, ranging from murder and child abduction to the theft of a million-dollar statue of a steer, creator-writer Nancy Miller (who was an executive producer for The Closer, another TNT series with a strong female lead) focuses much more on Grace?s ongoing struggle to accept Earl?s presence ("Why me?" she asks. "I don?t know," comes the reply) and do something to clean up her life. The show?s bluesy, authentic music (including Everlast?s title tune), dry sense of humor, and sexy tone (Hunter, looking very buff, is nearly nude on numerous occasions) are all positive elements; so?s the supporting cast, especially Rippy and Laura San Giacomo (as a police examiner who?s Grace?s best pal). But Saving Grace is all about Holly Hunter, and by and large that?s a very good thing. Bonus features include audio commentary by Miller and others on two episodes and several short featurettes. --Sam Graham
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