If you like suspense, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, then you’ll like “Grimm,” the show that has all of these incorporated into it.The show “Grimm” is sure to be poplar because it has two themes everyone likes.
“Police procedurals have been popular in the recent past and combining supernatural elements seems to strike a chord with viewers,” said John Rourke in an e-mail. Rourke worked on rigging elements on two of the sound stages in Portland.
That’s not the only interesting thing about it; its plot also draws in its viewers.
“Grimm” is about Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), a Portland officer who finds out that he is one of the last Grimms, a lineage of people profiling mythological creatures, who also stops them from harming humans.
Nick and his partner Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby) encounter mysterious cases and with each case comes another one of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales.
In the first four episodes we’ve seen stories like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” “The Queen Bee,” and “Bluebeard.”
These old and moralistic stories we used to read as kids are told without the restrictions of a child’s educational purpose. True to its original version told by the Grimm Brothers, it doesn’t hide any facts. As this show unravels the dark and disturbing sides of these fairy tales they become more violent and gruesome.
In each episode we’re introduced to a Grimm creatures human form and their monster form. The Grimm creatures have their own stories and background to them and that makes them more three dimensional.“It has very strong supernatural elements, which most major network series tend to stay away from,” Rourke said.
Its strong supernatural elements are a main reason why I think it’s so popular. It pulls you in with the suspense and then jumps right at you when you least expect it. Although it has a great plot and cool effects, there’s one thing that bugs me.
The villains die way too easily. It usually takes quite a while for them to die, but it only took a couple of shots to kill the Reaper, the Blutbaden, and the queen bee Mellischwuler. Each has their own unique characteristics yet they all died in the same way.
If “Grimm” had something similar to the CW’s “Supernatural”, then the plots will thicken even more. In “Supernatural” certain types of weapons or circumstances were needed to be able to kill a creature and that’s what made it seem more abstract.
That would really make it more interesting but then its characters would die off too quickly. I kind of understand why regular guns can kill the villains but it’s disappointing how easily they die without really putting up a fight.
But even so I still think this is worth watching and that you’ll get hooked on it so much you’ll want to watch the second season.
