Well, since I've just now discovered this show and having watched all of the first season in sequence, and after reading some of what the good people on the internet had to say about the show - I have some thoughts to share with you all...
First off, let me just say that I really liked the show - It's refreshing to see a sexual female character who isn't constantly ashamed of enjoying sex and having sex and isn't automatically labled a whore by the people around her just because she has multiple sexual partners. The people around Grace (mostly her co-workers) seem to except her for who she is and even though the show went the very stereotypical way of explaining her behaviour with the mandatory "Every sexually liberated woman must have been sexually abused as a child" storyline - They did it well and made sure the viewer understands that while this was one of the reasons for her promiscuity it wasn't the only one. It was made very clear that the character of Grace is, among many other things, just a woman who enjoys sex and that it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. That is something you don't see very often and I liked it.
Furthermore, as a jewish born and self proclaimed atheist, who doesn't usually relate that much to programs with religious tones I find the "faith" issue is dealt with very nicely on this show. It really is a show about god for the non-believers among us - the whole subject of god and belief is (on the most part) dealt with with a lot of humor and an openess that is usually lacking in other shows. Honestly, if more shows about god and faith were like this, I might have actually watched.
Wow this post is getting kind of long - the truth is I can talk about stuff like that all day long if you let me... so I'll leave it at that for now...
Have fun and if you have any comments - leave them at the beep...
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