Grace (2021)
Bright lights, dark secrets.
Creator: Russell Lewis
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
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Creators
Russell Lewis
Cast
John Simm
DS Roy Grace 
Richie Campbell
DS Glenn Branson 
Brad Morrison
DC Nick Nicholl 
Laura Elphinstone
DS Bella Moy 
Zoë Tapper
Cleo Morey 
Juliette Motamed
DC Vee Wilde User Reviews (1)
I started watching this cop show under the misapprehension that Simms, who plays Roy Grace here, is the same actor who is a cop on the excellent Shetland. But no, there is a resemblance but they are different actors. (So how odd that this character’s wife is named Sandy, which is the cop’s name in Shetland.) So anyway, I like this show. The plots, though sometimes darker, are also more complex than other police shows. That is perhaps due to the fact that unlike other shows like it that stray from the exact source material plots, every episode of Grace appears to be bas3d on one of the novels. The writing is pretty strong. Oddly, they strayed a bit after the first series of his dealing with a psychic and visited that angle no more. My only gripe with the writing has to do with the ongoing subplot of Roy Grace’s long-lost wife, and this may be a bit of a spoiler, it seems the c…
