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• Grimm Review: The Damsel and The Quest (3/10/2012)

  Someone said this last week and after this episode I totally agree: "Grimm" may have some of the elements of a police procedural, but at its core it's an urban fantasy a la Rob Thurman novels and the like. The messier endings with some of the bad guys not getting caught and punished at the end of each episode just goes with the territory. The only thing that disappointed me about this episode was that they made Ariel so evil/crazy right away. With her chemistry with Nick, I think it would have been more interesting to keep her more ambigious for the time being - because she knows about and appeals to the Grimm side of Nick her presence would have been another messy shade to the problems he and Juliette are currently having.
  

• Grimm Review: All in the Family (3/3/2012)

  I got chills when Hilter was revealed as a creature at the end - holy moly! Nice (and wonderfully creepy) way to tie the coins, the Grimm/German thing, and history together! Too bad Monroe wasn't there; I thought it was a perfect chance to give him more screentime considering his excitement and knowledge about the projector earlier in the episode. It's nice to see Juliette utilized so well. I don't necessarily want her to have more screentime, just see the screentime she does have used constructively. What I'm really curious about is what kind of creature Renard is - even with him being out of control under the influence of the coins he didn't reveal his creature-ness. It makes me even more curious. Great to see Nick really embracing his Grimm-ness. Now at least one other character needs to find out - my vote goes to either Hank or Wu (that would be a good way to make him something a little bit more than comic relief!).
  

• Grimm Review: Of Reapers and Reasons (2/4/2012)

  It was fascinating to watch Nick really being a Grimm first and a cop second for the first time. Before the creatures have committed crimes that the cop in him could comprehend or even have been victims themselves, but killing a lot of teenagers and ingesting human organs would be horrific crimes for even the most hardened cop to comprehend. These crimes would make anyone ask "What kind of monster could do that?" And Nick KNOWS this time it's a literal monster that he's in a position to stop. I don't think it's a coincidence that Renard got the warning at the same point when Nick is starting to really embrace the Grimm part of who he is. It's going to be interesting to see how all of that unfolds... I really liked the episode, but there wasn't enough Eddie. They really need to find a way to integrate him into the other parts of Nick's life - maybe by introducing him to Juliette or having Hank see a creature of what it is?