It’s no surprise that the successful series about flawed detective Grace returns on TNT for a second season.

Holly Hunter, who has been recently honored with the 2,363rd Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, in May, plays the role of a pleasure-seeking, alcoholic and heavy-smoking detective, who is involved in a strange relationship with an angel named Earl (played by Leon Rippy).

Hunter expressed her enthusiasm to play the role of Grace multiple times, saying she considered herself lucky to be offered such a complex and interesting character.

During a recent conference call with reporters, she called Grace “a serious standard bearer.” She said Grace had a “full world of a woman” inside, and she had “both male and female, both child and adolescent, living in her,” which is not encountered in too many characters.

“Very few actors get unlimited numbers of opportunities such as the one that I’m experiencing now,” Hunter added. “I’m aware of that and I’m grateful for it.”

The last season of the series had a very twisted and controversial ending, with Grace kidnapping the priest (Rene Auberjonois) who had abused her as a child. And this is why the next season was probably awaited with much curiosity by the show’s fans.

Hunter herself declared she was “very thrilled by the story line,” but she refused to reveal details about the coming episodes. She only indicated that Grace’s relationship with Earl, which is one of the most important elements in the plot, would develop in interesting ways.

Hunter is very much aware why the viewers like Grace, even though she is full of vices. Actually, her so-called weaknesses make her so attractive and adored by her fans. Everybody wants to see humanity instead of perfection. People are sick and tired of flawless super heroes who are never wrong, who save the environment, eat healthy, and teach everyone else to do the same. They want to see someone like them, or, even better, someone much more flawed than them. And Grace comes to fill their need, by drinking, cursing, chain-smoking, having affairs with married men. In short, all things which are a no-no for the society and which people fantasize about. We would all want to feel as free as Grace does.

“It’s an exciting ride being Grace,” Hunter confesses. “It’s a ride that you’re probably not taking in your own life, but you might fantasize taking.”

The drama is back on TNT for fifteen more episodes, on Monday, July 14, at 10 p.m.