Faith Is (Almost) Better than Sex in "Saving Grace"

Published: July 23, 2007, 9:37 am

Or so says Holly Hunter's hard-as-nails character Grace Hanadarko as she basks in the heavenly glow of an angel in the pilot for TNT's newest police-with-a-twist drama "Saving Grace." TNT isn't kidding in its advertisements about how the show is raw and edgy and boundary-pushing. The opening scene involves full-on sex with clever camera angles, a la NYPD Blue. Grace likes to walk around the house naked and flash her old neighbor, to his great delight. Vices abound: the characters swear, smoke, and drink like it's candy. Grace gave up God long ago--she was abused by a Catholic priest in fourth grade and she is angry about God letting her sister die too early. Oh, and Grace is having an affair with her partner--that's who she is having the mindblowing sex with in the first minute of the pilot--and she can't seem to beg off the addiction. No one's pulling any punches about why Grace needs saving. See all of the above. The reasons are plain as day. The miracle of the show,

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