Damages premiered Tuesday night on FX. It is a legal thriller starring Hollywood heavyweight Glenn Close as shark-like attorney Patty Hewes. The show is both legal thriller and mystery. It begins with Rose Byrne climbing out of an elevator bloody and beaten. She stumbles to a police station as the interrogation begins.
The show then jumps back in time six months to show Byrne's character Ellen Parsons interviewing for a job with a law firm. She ultimately takes a job for Hewes's law firm, but not without a stern warning from a friend about Hewes' killer reputation.
Parsons is immediately put on a major case in which Ted Danson is the defendant. He plays a billionaire charged with bilking millions of dollars from his employees in a stock scandal. He doesn't play fair and the two sides quickly engage in deadly games.
How did Parsons end up bloodied six month in the future? Whose blood is it? Why was Parson's immediately thrust on this high profile case when she is so wet behind the ears?
The show is fast paced, there are twists and turns at every corner, and the good guys aren't always as good as you'd hoped. Glenn Close is on the top of her game. This show really is going to be a wild ride for the next three months. Catch a repeat of it as soon as you can.
Now, in a completely different type of show, Holly Hunter takes on the small screen in the new TNT dramedy Saving Grace. Hunter plays Grace, a hard-to-the-core Oklahoma City cop with a bad drinking habit and a big need to sleep around. One night after a night of heavy drinking Grace strikes a man with her car. Luckily Earl, an angel, swoops in to grant her one last chance on God's behalf.
Grace is skeptical at first, but soon comes to realize that Earl is real, not just a drunken figment of her imagination. But can she change her ways? We'll see. Holly Hunter is funny, charming, and almost too hot to handle. You root for her and against her at the same time. But mostly you root for her.
Saving Grace is another summer treat and you can catch Monday night's after The Closer.
Damages: A
Saving Grace: A-
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