Being a huge Holly Hunter fan, this series seems like a dream come true for me: sex, crime, a complex femme heroine — sort of makes me wish I had cable again. Or time to watch it. Snip:
Compared to the neurotics, moms, and ingenues that Holly Hunter is best known for playing, her character in the new TNT drama “Saving Grace” is virtually unrecognizable. In the first episode, which premieres on July 23 , she has sex with a married man, then chastises him for feeling guilty. She shows her naked body to an elderly neighbor, waves a gun in front of a pair of elementary school kids, and drives drunk. She’s a hedonist.
She’s also a cop.
Indeed, Grace Hanadarko is a far cry from most of the female cops on TV, whose edginess is generally defined as a tendency to sass superiors. You’d be hard-pressed to find a woman so rough-hewn on network TV — or, as Hunter herself points out, in film. She was attracted to “the largeness of her,” Hunter said in a telephone interview last month. “And the fact that she held such darkness. Such black. And such lightness, all in the same person. And I kind of felt like her sexual life was a really stunning one. A beautiful one to get to talk about.”
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