Grimm Pilot Thoughts

Grimm Pilot Thoughts

Posted by Dustin on 10.30.2011 at 5:30 pm

So I finally watched “Grimm” uninterrupted, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. If you didn’t see it, the show is about a Portland detective named Nick, whose parents died when he was 12 (he believes in a car crash) and he was raised since then by his Aunt Marie. Nick works with his partner Hank, and is about to propose to his live in girlfriend Juliette. However he begins seeing people morph into monsters around him, and then Aunt Marie comes to town. We learn she has cancer and doesn’t have much time left. She is about to tell him the truth about him and what they can do, when a strange monster attacks them both . . . and she goes bad ass on him. Aunt Marie ends in the hospital and eventually tells Nick that they are Grimms, and her power is passing to him now. She also tells him that his parents were murdered, and all the answers are in this giant trailer she brought with her and conveniently parked in his driveway.

What I liked is that the monsters aren’t literally out of the fairy tales. They are humans on the outside, but when they lose control that’s when they transform, and only Grimms can see this. In this episode Nick and Hank are working on someone who seems to go after woman wearing red, but in this case it was red hoodies. Yup, the Big Bad Wolf. Nick also meets another wolf, Monroe, who is reformed. He befriends and even helps Nick, it seems becoming his secret second partner in the show. Monroe explains that the Grimms have been profiling their kind for 200+ years, and the books in the family line contain the profiles. Nick found it earlier in his Aunt’s trailer. The fairytales they wrote are in part based on entire races of creatures it would seem. In this episode it was a race Monroe referred to as Blutbads.

At the end of the episode more badies attempted to silence Aunt Marie in the hospital, but Nick saved her. They seemed to want her out of the way before she can tell Nick something. I like the mystery and intrigue, that there are clearly many puzzles to solve about his past, and eventually he’ll have to deal with telling his girlfriend and partner who and what he really is. Also aside from the fairy tale aspect, this and “Once Upon A Time” are worlds apart, another plus! I enjoy both shows, and both are unique and different.

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