http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/07/30/Saving-Grace--Bring-It-on-Earl.aspx SAVING GRACE is a winner and a perfect complement for THE CLOSER, the show it follows, about a strong (albeit far straighter) female cop. TNT’s motto is “We know drama.” They also know scheduling. TNT has a great one-two punch on Monday nights in THE CLOSER’s Kyra Sedgwick (at 9 p.m.) and SAVING GRACE’s Holly Hunter (at 10 p.m.), two strong women as far apart temperamentally as Hillary Clinton and Ann Coulter. Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson (Sedgwick) is an angel whose biggest sin is the stash of chocolate she leaves hidden in her desk. Grace Hanadarko (Hunter) desperately needs an angel, and anything sweet is entirely out of character. It is the kind of ratings-building combination that likely leaves broadcast network executives green with envy.    Grace is a troubled Oklahoma City police detective who is street smart and personally stupid. If there’s a bad decision to be made in her life, she’ll do it, whether it’s sleeping with fellow (and married) cops to paying far too much attention to her close friend Jack Daniels. She’s on a dangerous downward spiral when she’s intercepted by a last chance angel, a tobacco-chewing vision named Earl (Leon Rippy).(What a choice for a name. The last Earl I knew was a wife beater dispatched by the Dixie Chicks.) en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/07/30/Saving-Grace--Bring-It-on-Earl.aspx 77 60