That’s not creepy or anything.

“Then he seized her left foot with both hands in such a fury that he split in two.”

So, wow. Okay, THAT one was better. Like, loads better than last week. I still have tons of issues with the fact that this show is taking. Forever. To. Get. To. The. Reveal. With. Both. Of. Its. Main. Stories. But at least this week’s episode was completely tolerable, and even kind of fun. Maybe some of you still had problems with it – and I want to hear all about it in the comments, but I really enjoyed it. And about 87% of that enjoyment is totally because I squealed and clapped like a little girl when I realized this whole thing was basically Rumpelstiltskin. ALL THE HAPPY. God, it was just so, so, ridiculous, but this time in a fun way. Let’s get to the recap.

So, the episode opens on what I think is a rave and I get really excited because maybe, just maybe Roddy was back. But no. It’s just a party at a video game company because they’re launching a sequel to a game called Black Forest (DeutschLOLS). Two of the people on the development team, Jenna and Brody go off to “celebrate” if ya know what I mean, but she hears someone in the room. She goes out, leaving the guy to GET CUT IN HALF BY A GOBLIN WITH ACID FINGERS. Awesome.

So, now not only do the cops have to find a murderer, but he’s playing a riddle game with them, taunting them, telling them to figure out his name. I maybe should have realized at this point that it was Rumpelstiltskin (the inspiration for the episode, not the guy’s name), but I didn’t, but it was okay. Because that moment of realization was so sweet. Read the rest of this entry »

“Yeeesss, yessss. Oh, let me taste your tears, Scott. Your tears are so yummy and sweet. Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mmm, yummy. Yummy, you guys!”

“Now we’ve got eyes – eyes – a beautiful pair of children’s eyes,” he whispered.

Oh my good God, you guys. This may be the most ridiculous episode of Grimm ever. If you’ve been reading my recaps for the past season and a half, you’ll know that I actually do enjoy this show. So it pains me a little when I find myself laughing at (not with) an episode. I mean, it happens to everyone, right? Sometimes, due to schedule, or writer’s block, or whatever, there are just bad episodes of shows. And I’ll say it: Friday’s episode of Grimm really started out as one of those. Completely.

I get the premise. I get what they were doing with the Wesen, what story they were telling. But it was just so OFF THE WALL RIDICULOUS that I kept checking the time to see how much more of the episode I had to watch. There’s a guy, who is a fly creature, who can blind people with “River Blindness” by blowing sand in their eyes. Okay, I’m right there with you. BUT THEN HE GOES AND LICK’S SOME CHICK’S EYE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

He was addicted to her tears or something. If I wanted to see someone licking someone else’s tears, though, I’d rather watch Scott Tenorman eat his parents again. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, readers! Happy Hangover Day! Ready for some recaps? Good. So, I was out of town on Friday, so I didn’t get to watch Friday’s Grimm live. So I’m sitting here getting ready to watch it on the NBC website, but first the site shows me just a scene. The name of the scene is “Rogue Wesen” and here is the synopsis: “A trio of reckless Wesen holds up a bank, fully morphed into creature form!” I’m going to go ahead right now and call that the explanation to the public is that they were wearing Halloween masks. Bonus points if someone (probably a kid) comments how he wants one but can’t find one. Extra bonus points if some shop in town actually starts manufacturing masks of the Wesen faces.

Okay, let’s press play! And I’ll be honest, I watched this with my snark pants, which is sometimes better served with a play-by-play. So, let’s do that.

That was my face whenever this robber and his girlfriend were on screen.

“So the animals debated how they might drive the robbers out, and at last settled on an idea.”

Oh, right! Nick was in the middle of going through the purity spell thing. Juliette threatens everything with exploding her head if anyone else tries to blame everything on the cat. That’d be a sight. Read the rest of this entry »

Fight! Fight! Fight!

“The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”

Well, that certainly was a long mid-season hiatus, eh? Just to catch you up to speed… Previously on Grimm: Juliette and Renard be macking on each other in the Monrosalee’s shoppe and Monroe totally caught them. Also, Adalind tells Renard that he’s got to get the key from Nick, or else! And how’s he going to get it? By looking for it in AM’s Trailer. This can’t be good.

First ep back, and it was good, you guys. I had almost forgotten how much I enjoyed this show and its intricacies. This one had a lot going on, but it mostly boiled down to what they gave us in the previouslies, so well done, team! Let’s just jump into it.

So now Nick knows that Renard is the “other man,” and he wants so bad to beat him up, or maim him, or just flat out kill him. But he is a cop, and he’s got work to do. Unfortunately, when Renard also shows up the crime scene (remember when Nick and Monroe killed those Verrat stooges? THAT crime scene), it takes everything in Nick to contain himself. That’s pretty much it for cop work. Read the rest of this entry »

“Oh! There is a terrible witch in that house who spewed her poison over me and scratched me with her long fingernails.”

The title quote is totally lame, but you can’t deny that it’s kind of a great line. A great-sounding line, anyway. Yeah, so this wasn’t my favorite episode, and I’ll tell you why: I really, really, really dislike Adalind, and I will be happy when Nick/Renard kills her and we can be done with the Sexenbiest storyline (yes, I just wrote Sexenbiest. That whore. BTW, that line about seeing ALL of Eric? Gross. I mean James Frain is awesome, but gross. What a creeper).

So, let’s see, what are the major plot points? First, well, Adalind is back in town, and she is just so freaking cocky, it kills me. She’s being all bitchy and talking in half-truths and trying to trick people into things, and is there anything worse than the way she’s talking to Juliette in the coffeehouse like they are just the bestest besties that ever bested? GOD. I’m glad they arrested her, even if she’s basically just all Aaron/Roy-ing them, what with only Renard and Nick knowing the truth about her. And even then, Renard has to pretend that he doesn’t know the whole truth (and nothing but the truth) about her. Read the rest of this entry »

Love a good flashback.

“The beast was simply the Call of the Wild personified… which some natures hear to their own destruction.”

So, just wondering… can any of you guess why this episode made me gleefully clap my hands in morbid joy? No, not because it was just so good, though it definitely was. And no, it’s not because Wu had perhaps the single greatest LOLcop of all time (ALL TIME). It was something minor, something mentioned almost off hand that set my stupid little macabre-fascinated heart a-pumpin’. We’ll get to it, but first… MAN ALIVE.

Or dead, as the Kreskis would have it…

Friday’s episode. WOW. This week’s Wesen was actually a creature I’ve heard of before: a Wendigo. This comes out of Algonquian legend, and it basically a really nasty, cannibalistic monster. Which is exactly what death row inmate Craig Farren described two men as before he shot them (in self defense), which Hank arrested him for way back when seven years ago when he was a beat cop. I loved seeing the flashback, and then seeing Hank have to deal with it years later, after he’s experienced the fuckedupness of Nick’s world of Grimm and Wesen. Seeing Hank all take charge, especially when they track down one of the would-be victims John Kreski (one of the supposedly cannibalistic Wendigos) and he interrogates him a little. Even when Kreski folged (and only Nick could see it), Hank stayed strong. And HE was the one who went out into the field to track Kreski down after he shot him. Good stuff.

Episodes like this make me feel like Hank is really in the forefront right now, which is great. I mean, Nick’s the main character, but it’s fun to give others focus every now and again. Especially since Nick is a ball of angst right now (not that there’s anything wrong with that. I love angst!). But it’s nice to see Hank – and Russell Hornsby – get to be all badass, ya know? Read the rest of this entry »

As a general rule, I never trust interns.

“And branded upon the beast, the mark of his kin. For none shall live whom they have seen.”

Man, I so wish that I’d been able to live-tweet this episode because the big twist? TOTALLY called that shit. But the great part? I ain’t even mad. Usually predictability is the death of a show, but in Friday’s episode, Ryan proved to be so completely crazy (which I wasn’t totally expecting) that I am absolutely fine with the fact that he turned out to be the bad guy. Talk about a build-up. And hadn’t I been telling you for weeks that there was something up with that kid?

Man, I really enjoyed that episode. I thought that it was really well put together, and it was just the right mix of fun, scary and suspenseful. Perhaps it was a bit more suspenseful than scary, but yeah. ALSO? Gah, there was just so much German! <3 <3 <3 So, let’s just get into it, shall we?

So, the gist is this: a girl was kidnapped, and the case is really getting to Nick. It really doesn’t help that he’s getting frustrated with the Juliette situation, though he is trying his hardest not to be. Can’t fault a guy, though, you know? Read the rest of this entry »