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Edgy Grace

Holly Hunter brings realism to new cop/angel drama.

Todd Hertz | posted 11/05/2007 08:48AM

TNT's new cop drama, Saving Grace (Mondays, 10/9c), is like watching Touched by an Angel in reverse. While Touched followed an angel helping a new lost person each week, Grace flips the script to follow ...

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RJ	Posted: November 07, 2007 3:11 PM

M Stuart's response reminded me of why I have problems with "Christians". He was so uplifting in his word choice. "Redneck Angel", "nasty, vulgar, bimbo" was his words. Then he has the fortitude to reference "resemblance to scripture". I can discern his usual understand of the New Testament! Hey, Stu, Danced with the "B-Attitudes" lately? I saw discipleship in the old movie Pretty Woman!! I saw a characteristic of God when the rich young business man saw through the prostitute's veneer and viewed her true self. Sound familiar?! Check out Luke 7:36-50. Jesus was a friend of Sinners! Can we be less?

F Oliver

Posted: November 06, 2007 2:04 PM

I,too, watched the first episode and knew I could not stomach any more. I feel that however redemptive the message will turn out to be, as a Christian, I refuse to watch filth. We know, as the gospel song says "If He has to reach 'way down, Jesus will pick you up". Thank God that He saves the chiefest of sinners, and no case is too difficult for God! But I do not want to witness these acts. Ephesians 5:11-12 tells us: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. I think an old-fashioned word is applicable in this case - disgraceful. CT should be on the side of some type of reproof or standard of righteousness in its reports, even if the secular film producers are not.

B Fleming

Posted: November 05, 2007 2:57 PM

I watched the first episode, and I don't even remember if I watched all of it. The near-nudity and language really turned me off. I get that we're all sinners, but I don't need a gratuitous display of Grace's sin - there are other ways to get the point across and make it have just as strong of an impact. I was very disappointed by it and have no intention of watching the first or subsequent seasons. Maybe I didn't watch it long enough to agree with CT's take on it, but what I saw was enough for me, and I only gave this article one star because zero wasn't presented as an option.

Bob Maxwell

Posted: November 05, 2007 2:06 PM

My wife and I watched the wntire first season and look forward to the start of the 2nd. Todd Hertz gave a good review of what happens and the issues involved. We have friends and family that lived the sins and addictions portrayed and have seen the struggle to even reach compliance and then the final battles before total surrender. We have seen the grace that transforms the life of those friends and family that have made their complete surrender of their life and will, daily. to God. In reality, it is the same walk that all of us have had to make as we broke the first commandment and spiraled away from The father, but were never let go by the Holy Spirit until we surrendered at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. Amazing grace. The right venue, say a college or single adult group, put together with food and socializing and this would be great discussion and bible study stimulation!

M Stuart

Posted: November 05, 2007 1:32 PM

I can't believe that Christianity Today gave such a whitewash picture of this show. She was naked and gyrating on screen within the first few minutes. The show is vulgar, nasty, ignorant, and the redneck angel is bewildering. The Lord's name is taken in vain repeatedly. There is a reason that this show has lost viewership. It stinks. The people who like vulgarity and nudity don't even like it, and I am repulsed. I thought there might be some kind of thought-provoking meaning to this show, but it's just plain nasty. The plots are thinly veiled stories written around some Hollywood idea of God and bear little resemblance to scripture. The only thing I liked was the time the bimbo taunted the angel, and he briefly showed power. I took it off my TiVO.

John Rich

Posted: November 05, 2007 1:29 PM


Good review. Saving Grace can be painful to watch; like a slow-motion trainwreck. You want to yell at Grace to just quit her evil ways. But that's the point: she, like us, is a sinner, and yet God, as represented by the Last Chance Angel Earl, reaches out to her. As He does to us all, if we but will meet Him in the middle.

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