I watched a bit of the first season so I know the premise. But Holly Hunter annoys the crap out of me so I stopped watching. The series finale was last night and I’m kinda wondering what happened. Anyone watch?
I watched it, but I didn’t comprehend much of it. At the end,
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Grace confronts the evil guy, and blows him and herself with a truck full of fertilizer.
I enjoyed the show quite a bit, and hated the hell out of the last few episodes.
WTF HAPPENED?
Does anyone have any clue why they dropped the series in the first place?
Because the whole last half-season after that revelation was just…terrible.
“Oh, crap, we’re outta here…ok, everyone, take the next 3 years’ worth of plot and, yeah, let’s just capture maybe one out of every 100 frames, then put it together flip-book style; that 'll do!”
I’m seriously…well, not pissed, because it’s all money, right? Who cares about the shows… but…WTF. Something BROKE.
I’d seriously drop the network like a hot rock if I knew it was actually responsible for the hatchet job.
But who was the y’know, guy? I stopped watching, I admit, beacuse I had no idea what was going on anymore.
I watched the first and some of the 2nd season. Quit after Grace’s married bf’s brother dies. It got to much like a soap opera for my taste.
Did they ever execute the black guy?
I liked Holly Hunter. But, man she got too thin and muscle. Even her nude scenes were gross. Veins bulging because she had zero body fat. That’s not healthy.
First season was very, very good. They had the right mix of light moments and serious. I loved the neighbor she waved too as she gets out of the shower. funny stuff
Yes, they executed the black guy.
Yes, the show just skipped to an end. I don’t know when they learned they were canceled, but it felt like the show’s creator had an idea of how the show would end. And that idea would take a season to play out. But then they only got a half season warning that they were canceled and show they just crammed it all in.
This was a 26 episode concept. The first 13 were good. I would be the last 13 were planned. And they filled the middle with the second and third seasons that didn’t cover any real ground.
Yar, they executed the con. Can’t believe I watched it, actually; that was hard for me to watch.
And yes, Hunter’s frame is ‘wiry’, but remember…she’s right out around 50 now, having had twins at 47; that sleek, healthy puppy-dog layer of fat not only doesn’t exist on EVERYONE who’s healthy, but I suspect that as one ages it may fail to put in an appearance at all.
I want to see this and even had it on my Netflix list… but, frankly, I CANNOT STAND Holly Hunter’s voice. To the point where I cringe when the milk commercial comes on.
I thought the ending was rushed. So, no surprise there.
On the other hand, I find Holly Hunter’s voice, one of the few I recognize instantly, is one I find comforting.
Love Holly Hunter and thought Grace was a fascinating, complex character. Incredibly disappointed that they never seemed to know what they were doing with her.
The finale failed to develop any real tension or sense of destiny in the confrontation between Grace and Mr. Evil.
The emotion of the final scene was ruined by the cliche of everyone saluting. And then it was turned into an unintentional comedy by the fact that not a single freaking actor knew how to salute. Some of them looked like they were trying to adjust their toupees!
Who was Mr. Evil and what was the revelation?
I haven’t seen that episode yet, but my guess is that he was an evil “Earl” who had guided the original bomber. Am I close?
The revelation was that the guy, who’s appeared really farking randomly a couple-few times in the series, is more or less ‘an’ incarnation of evil. Not Satan, just an embodiment. And yep, he’s the Bomber, he’s some guy in Mexico, he’s basically every bad thing that’s ever happened. Or something like that. It was really really…bizarre. I mean, I have seen cartoons wrap up a single episode more neatly than they wrapped up the series.
And what really cheezes me off the MOST is that…more spoilers…and bad language…
GRACE &*($ING DIES IN AN EXPLOSION THAT NOBODY AT ALL KNOWS THE REASON FOR!
THEY ALL THINK SHE JUST WAS DEPRESSED AND OFFED HERSELF!!
WTF
Ok, maybe 'Rhetta has a clue, and Grace’s brother, and Ham has sort of an idea, but really…
“Welp, guess she ate her gun after all” might as well have been title of the episode, for all the good it did.
Or how about,
‘What Was The Point?’
I’m sure Earl would have fun with that one.
Grrr.
Sorry, but I am really peeved.
By original bomber do you mean the Oklahoma City Bomber, or am I forgetting a bombing that happened during the series run? I watched every episode up until this final season, and then nothing, so if there was a bomber plot in this last season I missed it.
You didn’t miss anything. A guy <played by her real-life sweetie, Gordon MacDonald,> shows up on occasion claiming to be writing a book about ‘darkness and the bad things that happen’. In the end, he admits to actually BEING the bad things that happen, and lists to Grace some of the things that he did. Including being the one to close the eyes of Grace’s sister after she died during the bombing.
At which point she blows them both up, and everyone cries.
The End.
I actually cropped down to the last five minutes of the finale, but Youtube is erroring on me. If I can get it there I’ll share it.
So, evil is defeated by the power of… explosions?
Thanks much. Be sure to bump if you get Youtube working, but even if not I appreciate this explanation.
So Earl was MIA?
Earl was there, he just couldn’t do anything. He rarely has, really; he’s more her conscience than anything else. And actually he did do a lot by way of just being with her while she was going through everything, but no, he couldn’t stop anything from happening, or make anything happen either. He did save Grace’s nephew, after everything went Dresden: Grace lost her car <how hitting a 7 year old kid while going 30 miles an hour totals a car, I have no idea>, burned down her place, but Earl saved the kid, so it wasn’t a TOTAL Dresden. Just blatantly ‘Ok we’re wiping it all out, give her nothing to come back to so she’ll risk herself more easily’.
At one point it is mentioned that Grace is going to ‘Face Evil in God’s Place’, subtextually meaning that it’s Good vs Evil, and Grace gets to wear the white hat.
no luck on the video; I really can’t see why. Bleargh.
I thought she had it crushed out of guilt.
Now that’s a thought. It fits, but it fits a scenario that should have taken a lot longer to develop, not just one or two episodes. It was like she suddenly said ‘fark it, I don’t care anymore’. I could see her saying ‘Fark it; I CARE damnit’ and going all out, but the blatant driving into the eye of the storm seemed just too suicidal and fatalistic a thing for someone to have decided to do after just some bodysurfing and angel-talk.
Ok, I admit it. I don’t think I would have cared for that ending no matter how long a run up to it there was. It still doesn’t make any sense. Ah well.