Creator: Stephen Carpenter,
David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf
Directors: Norberto Barba,
Holly Dale, Darnell Martin, Clark Mathis, David Solomon, Omar Madha, Terrence O’Hara
Writers: Stephen Carpenter,
David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf, Alan DiFiore, Dan E. Fesman, Sarah Goldfinger,
Cameron Litvak, Naren Shankar, Thania St. John, Richard Hatem
Starring: David Giuntoli,
Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mithcell, Russell Hornsby, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Claire
Coffee, Sharon Sachs, Danny Bruno, Bree Turner, Henri Lubatti, Kate Burton,
Randy Schulman, Brian Sutherland, Kyle Vahan
“Grimm” is my favorite new
show of the 2011-2012 television season. It may be my favorite show on
television now. Of course, I’m not watching any of those red hot cable shows at
the moment. But, for network television “Grimm” is a fairly impressive series.
It doesn’t shy away from its horror roots, and it successfully combines its
horror premise with the tried and true police procedural format.
In the universe of the show,
the world isn’t what it seems. Amongst us normal humans there are also beings
known as Vessen that are part animal in nature. They can transform into their
semi-animal form, but don’t often choose to in front of normal humans. Other
Vessen can sense each other for what they are, but most humans can’t sense
them. There are some humans known as Grimm, who can see the Vessens’ true form,
however. These Grimm have special skills that allow them to hunt and fight
Vessen. That is where the conflict of the series springs.
The success of the series
relies heavily upon the lead character, Nick, a police officer who discovers
that he is a Grimm. David Guintoli is a wonderful hero. I don’t doubt that he
was in the final casting calls for the new Superman. He plays the detective
well. He plays the hero with supernatural powers well. He plays the guy who
finds himself in a situation he doesn’t fully understand well.
A strong supporting cast
surrounds him. Russell Hornsby is his partner, who is unaware of this
supernatural world that affects so much of their job as police officers. Silas
Weir Mitchell is also his partner of sorts. He plays a Vessen who helps Nick
understand the Vessen world. With the decidedly unfrightening moniker of Monroe,
Mitchell works as both an information disseminator and comic relief. He’s a
reformed Blutbad, which is kind of like a werewolf. Before Nick met Monroe, a
Vessen/Grimm friendship was virtually unheard of. Sergeant Wu is another comic
figure, a uniformed officer who just seems to always end up in the middle of
things, played by Reggie Lee.
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Great article! I agree that Grimm is a great show on Fridays and it has dominated primetime. I wasn’t too big on Grimm in the beginning, but with each passing episode it was better. Now I can go and watch all the series over again during the summer and get prepared for season two this fall. Since I mostly record primetime shows I will be able to use my auto hop feature to skip commercials. I don’t have to manually fast forward commercials and they are still available to watch if I want. I was stoked on this feature after one of my coworkers at Dish showed me how it worked. Now there’s no worry of always going past my shows and then having to skip back. I like having the option to choose to skip the commercials or not. I don’t have to worry about replacing my batteries in the remote all the time.
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