So what will cause Grace Hanadarko to change her ways?
Your favorite Oklahoma City Detective and mine, Grace Hanadarko, has been through some serious crap this season. From catching Ronnie cheating, to having her family targeted by an old collar of hers, to, oh yeah, getting kidnapped and held hostage, one could easily say that she’s had a hell of a summer. This week, she let herself get beat to hell to put a murderer behind bars.
I’d said in the past that Grace would never really change. Sure, yeah, she’d mellow out a little, but the hard drinking, hard partying, hard living Grace we’d come to know and love? Well … I doubted that she’d ever really change. Now that she’s been through this season’s experiences, I’m not so sure.
Does the crew at Saving Grace take their practical jokes too far?
(Season Three, Episode Eight)
We’ve talked about some of the elaborate pranks that the squad has pulled on each other in past episodes. I’m actually a big fan of the more simple stuff they do, but when they put their minds to it, they can really design some crazy stuff. Tonight’s episode may have just taken the cake (which, in my mind, was previously baked on the awesomeness of this season’s premier). But did they go too far tonight?
Saving Grace – The one with the title about a cow
(Season 3, Episode 4)
Bravo to the production team at Saving Grace. There’s not a show on TV today that has the wherewithal to delve into religion the way Grace does. I’m not saying that the show took a critical look at Hasidic Judaism, as doing so would be out of place on a cop drama. What they did do, however, was treat the religious sect with respect, avoiding making it an hour-long punch line, like other shows most definitely would.
Saving Grace – Grace does a bad thing to get to a good end
“She’s a Lump” (Season 3, Episode 2)
When I previewed the third season of Saving Grace, I was working with what I thought were the first two episodes of the season. Turns out they’ve decided to run the episode “What Would You Do” later, which I think was a pretty good switch. Tonight’s episode continues the storyline of the Jane Doe that Earl (and Grace) have been watching over, whereas it doesn’t play a major role whenever we see it (Looking at the previews of next week, it won’t be then). As it was a part of the second season finale, and the premier last week, I’m grateful for the change.
See Jane Clack – Grace Hanadarko vs. Patty Hewes
In my DVD post this week, it occurred to me that Saving Grace’s Grace Hanadarko and Damages‘ Patty Hewes are a lot a like. Well, maybe not so much alike, but they’re both intense and tend to live life on the edge. Let’s take a closer look at these two chicks and see how they compare … or not …
Hair: Wild vs. Neat. Grace boasts a long mane that flies everywhere and is indicative of her unrestrained outlook on life. Patty, on the other hand, has a cropped ‘do with never a hair out of place unless she’s been stabbed and has collapsed in an elevator. Even then, the hair is still prim and proper, much like her ability to sit through a conversation without letting on she’s been stabbed.
Hard-Partying Grace Hanadarko hits DVD this week
I am such a big fan of Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko on TNT’s Saving Grace. She brings an intensity to that role that reminds me of Glenn Close’s Patty Hewes on Damages, although the characters are very different. Patty is a lesson in control, whereas Grace is the exact opposite. But both get the job done.
Grace is a tiny firecracker who parties hard and regrets nothing in her job as a cop with the Oklahoma City Police. In her words, she has “an angel on my ass, a man who hears God talkin’ to him, and a killer on Death Row who shops at the Gap. None of this makes sense.” Read more about Grace in Ivey’s preview of season three.
Detective Grace Hanadarko is back (Oh, yeah, Saving Grace is back, too)
I’ve had a very hit or miss relationship with Det. Grace Hanadarko of Saving Grace. In the beginning, I followed the show, despite the fact that I thought it was pretty inconsistent. The, well, ah, saving grace, of the show was Holly Hunter’s powerhouse portrayal of the titular character. The show picked up steam, and tackled some pretty heavy storylines over the two seasons. I had the opportunity to screen the first two episodes of the third season, which premieres next Tuesday (10/9c on TNT), and it promises to build on the themes we’ve seen developed over the previous two seasons: redemption, faith, and kick-ass pranks.
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