| Saving Grace - Season 1 | 
 enlarge | Actor: Holly Hunter
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 2966
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 576
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: FOXD2253038D
UPC: 024543530381
EAN: 0024543530381
ASIN: B0016MOWQ4
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 07/15/2008 Run time: 559 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com
There 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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 Awesome Show October 2, 2008
This series is incredible! The story lines are current and the cast is exceptional. Granted, the idea of an angel appearing to try to save someone from the path they're going down might be difficult to adjust to but somehow in this show, it works. Holly Hunter is absolutely fabulous in her role. Be aware though, there are some adult scenes so wait to watch it when the kids are in bed.
Best show on TV September 17, 2008
This is the best show on TV. I don't miss a show and I plan on buying them all. You have to watch this show.
 Strong, gritty series with a 'hokey' Okie naming element September 8, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Seeing the series is almost like coming home. My husband and I lived in Oklahoma City for nearly thirty years and yes, some of the places in the episodes are very familiar. Probably the most familiar even to non-Oklahomans is the Murrah Building Memorial.
The concept is interesting, Grace Hanadarko (Hunter) can't even be favorably described by an angel. She's an OKC-PD detective who drinks too much, sleeps around a lot including with two co-workers one of whom is married.
One night, while driving drunk she hits and kills a pedestrian. While trying to resuscitate him, she prays to God (whom she really doesn't believe in) for a miracle.
What God sends her is Earl (Leon Rippy), a tobacco chewing beat-up looking angel who's the last stop between her and Hell. It's Earl's job to help Grace save herself, but it's not going to be easy. The girl's got issues, including blaming herself for a sister who died in the Murrah Building bombing and dealing with abuse by a priest when she was a child.
As you can imagine, the show's pretty gritty. Grace has to redeem herself while dealing with one of the most stressful jobs in the world and her squad doesn't seem to do low profile cases. We're talking kidnapped little girls, witnesses under threat, hotel murders, etc. I don't think anyone but Holly Hunter could pull the performance off. Rippy is great as Earl, as well.
The show has some excellent elements, character, place, tension. The script occasionally bogs down and a bit of it is 'hokey.' One aspect that amuses me is giving the characters Oklahoma place names as their surnames, including: Hanadarko (Anadarko); Yukon, Purcell, Stillwater, Norman, etc. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when they run out of names and start using Tahlequah, Tishomingo, Tonkawa and Pottawatomie. (Yes, those are also real Oklahoma place names as well!)
Rebecca Kyle, September 2008
 How about saving the script...... September 7, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well I have seen this show, and what is so good about it? It really stinks. I see no good writing and I see that Hunter should have stayed with film acting because television really does nothing for her.
Holly Hunter delivers a breathtaking performance September 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Saving Grace" is a marvelous showcase for the talents of Holly Hunter. She's fearless in her portrayal of Oklahoma City detective Grace Hanadarko. The way her emotions play across her face - threatening sudden violence like a summer tornado or breaking into a smile that would crack ice - is testimony to a carefully honed talent. There's magic in Holly's voice, whether she's yelling at a suspect to get on the ground or whispering to a friend about a barely repressed childhood trauma.
She's got her finger on the pulse of something elemental.
Of course, that performance wouldn't count if she couldn't rely on a staff of writers who've crafted a character who, despite a sackload of flaws and failures and weaknesses, is a jewel, the kind of person you'd be proud to call a friend. They allow Grace to fail spectacularly, but they never strip her of her basic humanity.
"Saving Grace" is a compelling drama that manages to ask hard, basic questions about existence and the presence and absence of God, all in the context of a police drama. That's pretty heady stuff for network television, even an edgy network like TNT.
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