Anybody watch Grimm? I just started, DVDs from Netflix.

If you haven't seen it, its about a Portland, OR police homicide detective, Nick Burkhardt, who discovers that he's a Grimm, a person who can see the true form of people who are part animal. Some of the "monsters" are evil and vicious, those are the ones a grimm is supposed to hunt down and destroy, most are not. When he meets a nonviolent one and they recognize each other, they become frightened that the grimm is after them. There are also "Reapers of the Grimm", scythe wielding monsters who hunt down and kill Grimm. I don't know if at some point the existence of the creatures will be explained or not but the premise is they've been around a long time.

Nick doesnt want to be a Grimm, he just wants to be a good cop and sometimes the roles conflict. As a police officer he's supposed to arrest suspects even when they're monsters. In two episodes so far he's probably made the wrong choice, being a cop instead of a Grimm. I assume this will come back to bite him (possibly quite literally) later.

Nick cant always see a monster, only when the become emotional and loose self control for a moment, so he doesn't know his boss, Captain Sean Renard,is actually some kind of monster royalty, who sometimes seems to be working against the grimm and sometimes on his side. On the one hand he wanted Nick's aunt, an older more experienced Grimm dead, on the other hand he chased a reaper out of town, saving the young inexperienced Grimm's life.

Not knowing who else to turn to, when Nick needs help he turns to a former kidnapping suspect (he wasn't involved), Monroe who is a Blutbad, basically a werewolf, who has learned to control himself and doesn't kill people. He and Nick should be natural enemies, not the friends their becoming.

Nick's partner Hank Griffin appears to be a normal human, despite the interesting last name. At this point he doesn't know anything about strange creatures living among normal humans and that his partner sees them.

Nick's girlfriend Juliette Silverton, seems to be normal, although being a veterinarian in this show is suspicious. In a deleted scene included on the DVD Nick says he's glad she's normal and I thought she looked at him odd.

Sergeant Drew Wu, a uniformed officer who does NIck and Hank's grunt work appears to be human as well.

Lawyer Adalind Schade is actually a monster (arent they all) something called a Hexenbiest whose powers at this point aren't clear. Nick knows what she is and found himself in the position of having to save her from another monster even though he thinks she had something to do with his aunts death. She did try to kill her and failed. Nick doesn't know she works for his captain.

Some of the monsters seem to be loners, some can control normal animals, such as a queen bee lady sending bees to sting people or a rat boy doing the pied piper bit (only with a violin).

The "monsters" aren't always the bad guys. In fact most of them seem to just want to be left alone to live out their lives like normal humans. To them its the Grimm that are the bad guys, the killers of their ancestors. Oh and yes the Brothers Grimm fairly tales were true stories and its apparently from them that the title Grimm comes from.

I love Grimm....watch it every week

Sounds like a series my family and I will like to watch. Thanks for the tip.

I watch Grimm also.....it's fun.

Love Grimm. I wanna be a Grimm! I'm just anxious to see what happens about the 'baby'. Ohhhhhh.

I wont ask who is having a baby, Since I haven't even finished 1st season.

Deleted scenes are interesting. In "Game Ogre" the deleted scenes had the captain actually meets with the ogre to try to warn him off. I don't know if the deleted scenes made the episode too long or if they just decided not to go that route after all.

I thought I was joking, but apparently all lawyers in this show actually are monsters. Just saw one looking like some kind of snake.

I haven't figured out how the monsters recognize the Grimm. Does Nick have a strange face that they see but the audience doesn't?

When the vessons turn, they can see that the grimms eyes are actually black. That's how they can tell if your a grimm.

According to wiki (yeah I know) its Wesen and means being or creature. Since its supposed to be German the W is pronounced like V.

I like how some episodes flip the story, so what would normally be the victim becomes the killer, ie the 3 wolves being stalked by the pig.

Next year (grin) I'll finish season 1 and begin season 2. Netflix also has 3 but 4 is only saveable not actually queable yet.

One of my favourites

Just finished season 1. Probably start season 2 next week.

Wow, you are way behind..ha. It's all explained later. Keep watching.

Lots of fun things to happen yet

Speaking of Grimm. I watched a recorded episode yesterday and it looked strange. Nick looked soooo young and didn't seem to know who Adalind was. I finally figured out it was a rerun from one of the first epiodes. Whew. Thought I was in a time warp!

Started season 2. Last one on the first disc was the one in which some one took Matthew 7:15 literally, the church full of sheep has a pastor who is a wolf. I know the story in Aesop's Fables but to put it in a church somebody must have know the Biblical verse as well.

Anyway Hank knows. Poor Juliet cant remember Nick. And the royals keep losing assassins. Maybe they should send humans. Then Nick would face a morel dilemma. As a cop, can he kill a human and not report it, like he does with wessen?

Good question, Guybrush

I'm all caught up thanks to Netflix and NBC's website.

Just one thing, I think the writers forgot something.

Good catch

Somebody at Internet movie database said Renard and Juliette have more chemistry than Nick and Juliette. And some one else said its because R and J are in real life a dating couple.

Oh, oddly enough the Adalind actress is apparently now pregnant in real life.

Boo, it's off until March 20th.

I hate the way they do that. Can't tell you the number of series I enjoyed until they took those extended breaks. By the time they come back, I've moved on.

Thanks! now I have a new TV show to watch!
I've been watching Damages on Netflix, its really good!! has anybody watched it?? I highly recommend it~

Grim looks great! the plot sounds a lot like Vampire diaries I love this show too~





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Wish they had done their hiatus while I was still catching up. The Blacklist (also an NBC) series just finished their break.
Oh well, guess I alternate between Columbo (online through Netflix), Dalziel & Pascoe and The Last Detective (both on DVD from Netflix) and the Blacklist while I wait for more Grimm.

Or of course I could get into my stack of unplayed games.

Last episode of 5th season of Columbo is odd one in that we don't actually see the murder. The audience is misled about who the killer is, twice, and even Columbo gets it wrong at first. Directed by Patrick McGoohan (does not appear in the episode). Apparently they thought this would be the final episode of the series, because Peter Falk was considering leaving, and so they decided to play with the format. Columbo did return but the 6th season only ran for 3 episodes and the 7th for only 5. After that is was off the air for 11 years before coming back as a series of tv specials. Finally ending in 2003. Unfortunately netflix doesn't have any episodes after 1989.

Don't know if Columbo's echange with the Sargent means anything or not. He asks the sgt for a light, the sgt says "I though you quit" [meaning smoking] and Columbo laughs and says "not yet, not yet".


Still waiting for Grimm.

It's nice to have so many choices these days