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Saving Grace
2007-10
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Angel: Earl (Leon Rippy)
Wings? Oh yeah – mighty fine, CGI ones, when he felt like showing them off, and what a wonderfully incongruous sight they were on him too
This was more like it. Saving Grace was like Highway to Heaven meets Tarantino, with a no-shit blue collar angel who had to try to get a hard-drinking, sex-mad, foul-mouthed Oklahoma cop (Holly Hunter) on the road to righteousness. It was no easy task. Jonathan Smith and Monica in those last two shows may have been making people see the light week-in, week-out, but it took Earl three seasons.
Intriguingly he also often hinted he was a multi-denominational angel.
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