![]() ![]() Like the constant stream of births – all of them predictable in their unpredictability – the drama just keeps coming, and Grace just keeps rolling with it. What I like about Amazing Grace – on the basis of the four episodes I’ve seen – is that it doesn’t look for the easy laugh to defuse all this drama. And there’s the small matter of Sophia (Alexandra Jensen), the heavily pregnant 17-year-old who turns up unannounced at the birth centre one day and reveals she is the daughter Grace gave up for adoption at precisely the same age. She hasn’t fully processed the loss of her own premature baby either, a tragedy that hastened the end of her marriage to Jim (Ben Mingay). ![]() At 34, Grace still has a lot of unresolved anger at the way she was raised by obstetrician mother Diane (Sigrid Thornton). Outside the centre it’s a different story. She’s the Captain Marvel of the birth canal. With her soothing voice, wafty clothing, and gentle exhortations to push, she radiates elegance, calm and encouragement. In the birthing centre where she’s set up on the grounds of a Sydney hospital, she’s unflappable. ![]()
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