(Am I) Lost & Found By Saving Grace
I just finished watching the season finale of Saving Grace. I must say there is just something about this show that is just so honest and pure, but gridy and edgy at the same time.
This is the kind of stuff I would like to write one day when I’m an established author. It’s raw, true-life kind of stuff. The show is non-apologetic about being very realistic. It doesn’t try to sugarcoat some of the realities that life throws at you.
But the great thing about this show is the writers have taken a gridy drama and put faith, God and angels in the center of it. It’s so refreshing to see something so good – in many different ways – on tv today.
The last episode really hit a cord with me. The performances were just out of this world. I have to give it up to the writers and actors of this amazing show. They did an excellent job with the sexual abuse story line.
For me those parts of the show were really hard to watch. Especially the scene with just Grace and Rhetta - It was just pure emotion. In that scene Holly Hunter reminded all of us that she is a true actor that has claimed the academy award.
To be so honest with your writing like that seems so hard to me right now. I wish I had that kind of courage to tackle something like that.
There are of course a few things I don’t like about the show; one of them being the fact that it feels the need to have a few graphic scenes of the sexual nature. That I could really do with out. But other then that the show is outstanding.
The one thing I hate about novels is that it’s so hard to really show the true raw emotion a character is feeling and going through. You really have to work the words of a novel to really jerk the emotion strings of the reader. But I think I also love that about novels. It gives you a challenge. I know, the irony.
If you decide to watch this outstanding show, I must warn you that there are a few graphic scenes of the sexual nature and they do exercise the right of free speech to express themselves. Meaning questionable language. I thought I needed to point that out, being this is a Christian oriented blog.
Julie
May 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This show looks well done but too raw for me–however I watch the Closer, usually an hour before Saving Grace and I love that show for much of what you said here. I am counting the days until it returns. That—and Ice Road Truckers—who would have thought?