Saving Grace Season 3 Premiere

Recently I was invited to preview the season premiere of the TNT series Saving Grace. I accepted because I’d heard a couple of people I know mention it and I wanted to check it out. I’d never watched the show and knew nothing about it so for me this was more like a series premiere then a season premiere.

“TNT’s bold series SAVING GRACE is set to return for a third season Tuesday, June 16, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). Academy Award® winner Holly Hunter stars as gutsy Oklahoma City Police Det. Grace Hanadarko, a woman who holds nothing back, whether on the job or in her personal life. Hunter’s acclaimed performance has earned the actress two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Award® nominations. She is joined in the series by an ensemble cast that includes Leon Rippy (Deadwood), Kenneth Johnson (The Shield), Bailey Chase (Las Vegas), Gregory Cruz (Criminal Minds), Yaani King (The Prince & Me) and Dylan Minnette (Prison Break), with Lorraine Toussaint (Any Day Now) and Laura San Giacomo (Just Shoot Me).”

Saving Grace stars Academy Award winner Holly Hunter as Oklahoma City Police detective Grace Hanadarko. Grace has an angel named Earl (Rippy),who is trying to save Grace (from herself) and get her to embrace God. Noone else can see Earl, and she discusses him with noone except her friend and coworker Rhetta (San Giacomo). Grace is having a relationship with newly divorced fellow officer Ham (Johnson), who has a fear or birds that his coworkers often use against him for their enjoyment.

In the season 3 premiere, We’re Already Here, Grace launches her own search for Neely, a drug addicted woman who also sees angels. Ham and Neely are both injured when a police officer is killed and a domestic terrorist plot is uncovered.

The second episode of season 3, “What Would You Do?,” finds an angel Matthew competing with Earl to get Grace to accept God. Grace weighs the decision of whether to accept Matthew’s offer of anything she wants in return for accepting God while investigating a series of home invasions, one of which includes a rape and murder.

Hubby was able to watch these with me and we both enjoyed them. We’d both really enjoy seeing the first two seasons in order to better understand the storyline. The two episodes we saw were wonderful by themselves but I feel like I’d appreciate them even more if I understood the backstory. This is one of those times that a past season box set would be most helpful.

The first season of Saving Grace on TNT, ranked as one of ad-supported cable’s top new series of 2007, averaging 4.7 million viewers. The show’s second season averaged 4 million viewers and ranked as ad-supported cable’s #1 entertainment program in its timeslot among adults 25-54, viewers and households. Saving Grace was created by Nancy Miller (Any Day Now). The third season of Saving Grace premieres tonight (Tuesday, June 16) on TNT at 10 pm ET/PT.

Here’s a look at the beginning of Season 3.

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