Grimm
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
My mom and I were talking about TV shows. Partly because of my recent post and partly because that’s what people tend to do when they have lunch together and they both watch the same stuff. Mostly we were talking about Grimm.
What I like about it is that it’s not really a supernatural show. It’s a cop show. Nick, the cop, doesn’t have super powers. He doesn’t slay vampires. He relies on detective work and research. Wait, okay, maybe it’s supernatural that he can see what people really are. He doesn’t even kill them unless it’s really, really necessary. About the only thing his ability lets him do is make the connections that are otherwise handwaved away in other cop shows. You know, that moment when you’re sitting there going “They knew it was her because of a dog hair? But they never even mentioned she had a dog!” In the case of Grimm, Nick will recognize someone’s true self and then backtrack to find the elusive clue. “Oh, well, I started wondering if she had a dog. She doesn’t, but on the night of the murder she was at her sister’s house and her sister owns a dog and lives next door to where the murder took place.” And then you’re watching it going “Well that’s a lot more sensible than the method of ‘it was a hair from a golden retriever and we narrowed it down to the one that lives with her sister because we can totes do that because we have super computers that can pinpoint the location of where a dog hair was picked up because of DNA and plant pollen’.”
Actually, “she’s really a snake and went through the air vents” is a lot more sensible than “it was a hair from a golden retriever and we narrowed it down to the one that lives with her sister because we can totes do that because we have super computers that can pinpoint the location of where a dog hair was picked up because of DNA and plant pollen”. Or maybe that’s just me.
The writing is good. The names of the killers or sometimes just the extras are usually puns based on what sort of animal they really are. Sometimes the casting (or maybe it’s exceptional makeup) is amazing — the person who is really a rat or a beaver or a snake actually looks vaguely like that animal. And the conversations between Nick and Monroe are … well, they’re adorable. It’s like the writers are trying to make us ‘ship them. I’m ok with that.
And since I mentioned Monroe….
Cutest werewolf, or cutest werewolf ever?
All the episodes are on Hulu.


















