Saving Grace

Grace Hanadarko is an Oklahoma City homicide detective who excels at solving cases while letting her private life fall apart. After a string of professional and personal losses she pushes her own limits until a single night changes her course: a rough-edged angel appears, claiming a history that echoes hers and offering guidance she never expected. The series watches Grace juggling police duties, strained relationships, and the uncanny presence that challenges her habits, beliefs, and capacity for change. It blends gritty procedural beats with supernatural elements and dark humor, keeping the focus on character over spectacle.

Created by Nancy Miller and debuting in 2007, Saving Grace centers on Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko, with Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Bailey Chase, and Dylan Minnette in supporting roles. The series mixes crime drama conventions with spiritual overtones and was positioned as a character-driven cable drama.

Holly Hunter’s lead performance drew consistent critical attention, and the program earned industry recognition through several award nominations that highlighted acting and writing. Those acknowledgments underscored how the show balanced grounded performances with offbeat supernatural material without relying on spectacle.

The series made an impression by tackling faith, guilt, and redemption in a frank, sometimes awkward way. Its image of a gruff angel helping a self-sabotaging cop stuck with viewers, creating a dedicated fanbase that still references the show’s moral questions and a handful of stand-out scenes. It helped normalize slightly surreal elements in hard-edged cable dramas that followed.

Critics generally praised Hunter’s work and the tonal mix of crime procedural and personal reckoning, and audience ratings reflect a solid reception, with an average of 7.4/10 from 55 votes. Recurring themes include accountability, the toll of trauma, and the uneasy intersection of belief and consequence, with episodes often balancing crime-solving against Grace’s attempts to change her life.