Grrl TV

This was a no-brainer in so many ways — Oscar winner Holly Hunter, for starters — but still the network has to make it official before Saving Grace fans can properly jump for joy.
The time to have at it is right about now, then, because TNT has done the deed and renewed the series for a third season of fifteen episodes. In case you’re counting, that order equals the number of episodes in the current second season, which is on hiatus right now until early 2009.
What excellent news for us Grrl TV watchers. And if you’ve been enjoying …read more

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Well, if I’m going to blog about Grrl TV, I have to give a huge shout-out to the three amazing actresses who make up almost half of the cast of TNT’s Saving Grace.
Sure, Academy Award winner Holly Hunter is a huge draw as Oklahoma City Police Department Detective Grace Hanadarko. But that doesn’t diminish the talent or accomplishments of her equally fantastic co-stars Laura San Giacomo (Just Shoot Me!, Veronica Mars) and Lorraine Toussaint (Ugly Betty, Law & Order, Crossing Jordan, Any Day Now). You gotta love these women and the characters they play.
For those who don’t watch …read more

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Original Air Date: August 25, 2008
Ham, Ham, Ham!
Whoever wrote the official TNT description for “You Are My Partner,” Saving Grace’s second-midseason finale, must have been as drunk as Ham is at the very beginning because there’s no mention of Bobby at all, let alone his recent disappearance into an undercover role. Despite the customary crime woven into the plot for good measure, this episode was all about Ham and the cop’s continuing spiral downwards following the death in the Middle East of his Marine younger brother, Ralph.
The crime of the week, an especially hateful and typically twisted one, revolves …read more

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Some fans may not realize this, but the August 25 episode of Saving Grace, “You Are My Partner,” doubles as the series’ midseason finale. Although the second season has a total of fifteen episodes and only seven will have aired after the 25th, Holly Hunter and her castmates are going on hiatus and will return with the remaining eight installments later.
The big question is when since TNT hasn’t announced a set date that I know of. Whenever it is, the show will be back with fresh material; chopping seasons in half is a common practice on basic cable.
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On “Are You an Indian Princess?,” the August 18 episode of Saving Grace, the officers in the Oklahoma City Police Department will tackle a painful case involving a kidnapped child.
The little boy in question is abducted after his mother is murdered, and considering that Ham’s younger brother Ralph just died on the previous episode from injuries sustained while on active duty in the Middle East, the case will cut too close to home for him in particular.
Watch Grace visit the hospital room of a severely injured child in the sneak peek following the jump. Be forewarned, however, that it’s …read more

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Grace has problems everywhere she turns on the August 11 episode of Saving Grace called “Do You Love Him?“
First, a drunk driver hits her Porsche, revealing thousands of dollars worth of bills in the door that were stored there by the car’s former owner. Of course, the inevitable investigation that follows leads right to a murder.
Second, Ham’s younger brother Ralph, who was just on the episode before last called “A Little Hometown Love,” goes missing in Afghanistan, causing the entire squad to feel Ham’s pain.
And third, just as Ham decides to get more serious about Grace, his older brother …read more

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The August 4 episode of Saving Grace has the cool, if lengthy, title “It’s a Fierce, White-Hot, Mighty Love.”
Maybe the title is so long because there’s so many plotlines. Grace will become involved with the disappearance of a mother of two, and one of the children’s story about the disappearance will set off alarm bells in the cop.
Meanwhile, Grace’s young nephew Clay will ignore his father’s wishes and join the Oklahoma City Police Department’s Police Explorer program.
And elsewhere, Grace’s colleague Butch will find himself the focus of a stalker who seems affiliated with the squad. Now that’s scary.
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Original Air Date: July 28, 2008
I don’t know if it was because I was coming off of the intense high of The Closer’s preceding episode “Cherry Bomb” or if it was because something is changing on Saving Grace, but to my great surprise, I actually enjoyed an episode of Holly Hunter’s show all the way through. This is a first, and an amazing one at that, at least for a TV watcher like me who didn’t last past the halfway mark of Saving Grace’s first season.
The episode opens with Grace having a recurring dream about her and Leon Cooley …read more

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Murder, war, and dreams all figure into “A Little Hometown Love,” the July 28 episode of Saving Grace.
Things are set in motion when an integral member of the staff for Grace’s squad ends up dead mere feet away from where the cop and her married partner and lover Ham are getting busy. Ham’s brother, who’s in the service, also pays a visit during the episode, and Grace and Leon Cooley (Bokeem Woodbine) dream about each other.
If the spoilers alone aren’t enough to make you eager to see this installment, the sneak peek after the jump most definitely will. …read more

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Original Air Date: July 21, 2008
Let’s get the big Ham news right out of the way — at the beginning of this episode of Saving Grace, he informs Grace he left his wife Darleen two months ago and now has his own apartment. After Grace learns the news and we viewers get to endure a disgusting prolonged scene featuring the couple playing around while drenching each other in ketchup, mustard, and milk, we head to the crime scene the next morning.
A 21-year-old college student named Paul Shapiro has disappeared from his filthy and bloody apartment. Grace actually knows the …read more

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