Charming and brutal

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Having LOVED Touched by An Angel and Joan of Arcadia, I wasn't sure how I would like this one. Grace is a hard drinking, swearing, promiscuous woman. But she is also a woman who is an outstanding police detective with a very strong sense of right and wrong. She really does have principals! It truly was an outstanding series. It reminds us all that G-d loves you no matter what you have done; are going to do; and He forgives us for our very human shortcomings. It is also a timely reminder that G-d uses real men and women to do His work. The apostles were NOT saints! They were flesh and blood men who like all men had their flaws. Yet G-d used them to spread the Gospel of Christ and to found the Christian church. It's a comfort really to know we too can serve G-d and survive this earthly plain intact even with our flaws. I do find it really weird though that Joan of Arcadia was canceled after 2 seasons...just when she was actually going to start confronting evil in season 3. The top dogs of Saving Grace did the same thing to this show. I have no doubt, if they had been given time, we would have seen some phenomenal story lines the next season. I am grateful, however, that the powers that be did allow them 3 additional episodes to tie up this series. Every actor chosen for this series was outstanding! I hope we will see many of them in the future in other series.SERIES SPOILER AHEAD: While I was truly saddened to see Grace die in the final episode, I thought it was fitting. She had already had her garden of Gethsemane and knew she was going to be used for something horrific, awesome, G-d honoring. Her death was NOT for naught. While WE cannot destroy evil, we CAN most certainly thwart it. Grace did exactly that. She lived up to her principles right to the very end.

I loved "Saving Grace". It was admittedly hard to watch sometimes, but a great allegory about human frailty, separation from God and redemption. It had gems for the lead characters and perfectly showed how as humans we can lose faith in ourselves and the world but there is a door we can choose to walk through where the light awaits us. Holly Hunter was excellent as the self-destructive cop who has lost her faith, seemingly loves only family and her beloved bulldog, and is the only one who can see Earl, (the angel), played brilliantly by the wonderful Leon Rippy. The other standout is Laura San Giacomo, Medical Examiner, Grace's lifetime friend and woman of profound faith. The musical score was always an added treat and the final episode was all I hoped it would be and more!

I like most cop shows on TV but it's nice for a change to have one of them based in a city that's not New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. Well I guess you have Homicide and The Wire based in Baltimore but otherwise pretty much every other cop show on TV has been in one of those 3 main cities. It's like really, crime happens in other cities too. This show is based in Oklahoma City, and many of the characters are named after cities in Oklahoma.The story revolves around Holly Hunter's Grace Hanadarko character who's a hard drinking, smoking and promiscuous Oklahoma City detective who meets an Angel named Earl who gives here a last chance to redeem herself. Kenny Johnson plays her partner/lover.The show only had a 3 season run but kept the quality going straight thru all 3 of those seasons.

This was a really fun show to watch as Grace (Holly Hunter) and fellow detectives solved case after case each episode. Holly Hunter as Grace is one of the most life affirming / self destructive woman her age on TV. She exudes life and lives it to the fullest. The circle of friends surrounding her is endearing and touching. Co-Star Kenny Johnson as Grace's partner and sometimes lover does a fine job as an all around likable tough guy with a good heart and a high tolerance for Grace's crazy. Leon Rippy as Grace's angel named Earl grows on you with time given his enigmatic smile and unconventional "angelic" behavior smoking and drinking along with Grace and his other "cases". The deeply religious aspect to the series is tempered by its ecumenism. Earl is merely amused that each religion thinks it is the only way. The Catholic Church is given some hard core treatment as SPOILER ALERT the darkest of themes such as pedophilia are explored, but even potential anti-Catholicism is tempered by good priests and genuine and sincere Catholic believers who make up the supporting cast, including Grace's best friend. SPOILER AlERT Grace's mission to save a prison inmate in seasons one and two ends anticlimactically and without real resolution to my mind, but the series still packs a punch. The real flaws with the series begin in Season 3 as Grace is charged to redeem a highly enigmatic and even more self destructive young woman whose name is unknown for most of the series. About halfway through season 3 things begin to get a bit over the top and the writers shove far too much material into the last 8 episodes making the series bloated, sometimes incoherent and sometimes surreal. The producers received cancellation notice at that time and made the mistake of cramming far too much into the show at the halfway mark. The ending of the final episode is disappointing and poorly written. Had the last 8 episodes been written better with more restraint this could have become a cult classic.