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Saving Grace DVD Release Date: 14th July 2008

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Saving Grace DVD Review:

If you’re feeling suffocated by reality TV and bland, forgettable shows, “Saving Grace” may be the cure for you. And if you missed the first season, it’s now out on DVD and provides the perfect antidote to summer reruns (as does the second series which is currently airing).
Oscar-winner Holly Hunter (“The Piano”) plays Grace Handarko, a police detective who through her hedonistic and apathetic lifestyle embodies the worst in all of us. As Hunter says in one of the featurettes: “She lives impulse to action…and of course she lives out a lot of her desires that many people would like to live out but are too afraid of how it would wreck their own lives”.
When an unorthodox angel (played by Leon Rippy with the perfect combination of bluntness and subtlety) appears to tell her she’s going to hell, she must weigh the improbability of what she’s seen against the risk of eternal damnation if she doesn’t seek redemption. She struggles to make sense of the death of her sister, who died in the Oklahoma City bombings, and fights off faith in angels and miracles with reasonable yet ultimately unanswerable questions about fate and the afterlife.
Hunter gives one of the finest performances I’ve ever witnessed in a TV drama, and Laura San Giacomo of “Just Shoot Me” plays Grace’s best friend and colleague Rhetta, and in doing so makes an indelible mark on the series, as does the rest of the supporting cast.
The DVD presentation is easily the best I have ever seen for a single season for a TV series. The first and last episode both include commentaries from the team of Executive Producers, which include the Series Creator and the director of said episodes.
One thing “Saving Grace” can be credited with is bringing back the art form of the television theme song. The theme song here (aptly titled “Saving Grace”) is written and performed by Everlast, and a music video is included here. The song perfectly embodies the spirit of Grace, and the music video perfectly captures the spirit of the show.
Also included are one-on-one conversations, lasting three to seven minutes in length, with Hunter, San Giacomo, Rippy and Executive Producer Gary Randall.
Also offered is a three-minute featurette which takes the audience through a day on the set of “Saving Grace”.
Much more is included, and the content of the show as well as the DVDs make this the must-own DVD purchase of the summer.

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Saving Grace DVD review written by: Jackson Truax