Brighton, a detective whose career is hanging by a thread, and a wife who vanished without explanation: Grace is a British series from 2021 built around Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a policeman who has given the job everything and is close to losing it.
What is Grace about?
Roy Grace is not the kind of officer who clocks off. He has poured his life into the Brighton force, yet the job has stopped rewarding him for it. His wife Sandy disappeared years ago, and the question of what happened to her still sits at the centre of his thinking, pulling him toward long-abandoned cold cases that his superiors regard as dead ends. His methods do not help his standing either; they are unorthodox enough to earn him a fresh reprimand, and with it the real possibility of being moved off the work he cares about most. The series follows Grace as he walks that tightrope, taking on investigations that bring him back into the thick of live police work while the shadow of Sandy's absence colours every judgement he makes.
About the cast
John Simm heads the cast, joined by Richie Campbell, Rakie Ayola, Brad Morrison, Amaka Okafor and Laura Elphinstone. Russell Lewis is credited as director. The ensemble gives the series its texture: colleagues, superiors and the people drawn into each inquiry, all orbiting a lead character whose private grief keeps leaking into his professional life.
Context & significance
Grace is a United Kingdom production first listed in 2021, and its instalments run to roughly ninety minutes each, which places it closer to a run of television films than to a conventional hour-long procedural. The catalogue files it under horror, though the material described here is that of a dark police drama: a seaside city, cold cases, and a detective at odds with his own institution. Viewers who enjoy British crime television with a heavy, character-driven tone will recognise the territory.
Watching Grace on Ktime
Grace is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can choose between hearing the dialogue in their own language or following the original English performances with subtitles. Watching requires a free account login, and the Farsi interface makes it straightforward to move between episodes and find similar British crime series.