Grace
"Bright lights, dark secrets."
Overview
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.
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace anchors this crime drama with a mix of obsession and professional isolation. The series leans into the toll of long-term failure, as a lead investigator haunted by the disappearance of his wife navigates cold cases that others have abandoned. John Simm portrays a man whose career stands on a knife-edge, caught between his own relentless nature and the rigid expectations of the police force.
Set against a Brighton backdrop, the show pulls its source material from long-running novels to ground its mysteries. It moves past standard procedural beats to focus on the friction between unorthodox methods and institutional bureaucracy. The tension comes from a protagonist who has sacrificed his personal life to a desk full of dead ends, keeping the stakes high even when the trail has gone cold for years.
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- First Aired
- March 14, 2021
- Status
- Returning Series
- Episode Runtime
- 90 minutes
- Origin
- GB
- TMDB Votes
- 81