The series revolves around a young boy who was killed in the small town of California. When a major police investigation begins, things seem to be moving to another turn. This investigation makes the boy's family and the townspeople very messy in a short period. Grace Point residents seem to be skeptical of everything around them.
By this point, I'm ready to turn off Gracepoint entirely and forever... But then I remember Nick Nolte is in this show....So I persevere, despite now knowing this show may truly kill me.
Gracepoint is at times gripping and unrelenting television, and at least in the episodes that I watched, stands high on the cliffs above everything else on basic cable.
Gracepoint, a remake of the spectacular 2013 British drama Broadchurch, is my biggest disappointment of the year precisely because someone got it in their head that Americans can't handle subtlety and nuance.
Gracepoint's story isn't implausible or boring, and the show is stuffed with scenes that will twist your gut and characters that will stick with you. (Full disclosure: Nick Nolte made me cry.) But how many times can we watch this same basic story?
