Grimm

Plot synopsis:
A brother and sister, Jacob and Marie, live with their father and mother. The family is in a situation where living becomes difficult for them. One day Jacob and Marie's father abandons the two of them in woods while they go collecting firewood. From that moment on, the two teens must fend for themselves, fighting off rape and taking on any possible situation, reacting to situations as if animals. Their mother put a note in Jacob's jacket telling them to go to their aunt and uncle in Spain, but they arrive to find them both deceased in an accident.
Not sure what to do, Jacob, feeling hungry, goes to buy a roll, and finds a note left by Marie that she has gone off to marry a rich man named Diego. Jacob arrives at the house, ominous in spite of its brightness, and finds much to distrust in Diego.
Diego, a surgeon, then plots to steal Jacob's kidney to help his sick sister Theresa. Diego drugs both Marie and Jacob and separates the brother and sister.
After Marie escapes, she finds Jacob severely injured in a stolen car and both brother and sister (reunited again) drive away. Suddenly they are chased by Diego in a car. In the chase Diego's car crashes off the road. Jacob and Marie take shelter in an abandoned house in an abandoned village. With the help of Marie, ailing Jacob gets healed.
As the days pass one windy day Diego comes in search to take Marie and kill Jacob. In the encounter by hide and seek Jacob kills Diego by shooting an arrow. Jacob and Marie bury Diego's body and on hearing sound they sneak under the house. Police come on routine patrol and search the house and leave.
Jacob and Marie sit relaxed beside a nearby flowing river and the credits scroll on.

Tags: fantasy

Review:
Grimm largely follows the line of most crime dramas, but with the fun twist that the bad guys are characters from fairy tales and folk-stories.
The main character is reasonably interesting, his partners (one his human police partner & a new friend that is basically a big bad wolf) are mildly amusing, and the crimes are intriguing.
It is a show that can appeal to fantasy fans (like me) and crime drama fans (like my husband).Being one of two fantasy themed new shows on network television, Grimm is inevitably compared to ABC's Once Upon a Time, which is a bit more fantasy.
I am enjoying Once Upon a Time a great deal (my husband hasn't watched since the first episode), but frankly it seems more like a mini-series.
Nick, the main character, is coming to terms with this whole new world and the fact that he is a Grimm.
A lot of TV series keep rehashing the same old stories and people are turning away to Cable TV for original shows.I think "Grimm" is NBC's way of saying, "Hey there now, we're not giving up." Love the show, love the stories, was waiting for the next episode during Thanksgiving Weekend and now I'm waiting the week after and I have yet to see the next episode.
I don't know why NBC is trying to kill this show by making its audience go somewhere else for entertainment.Either way, the show is great, the stories are hella weird and this show is out there, along with American Horror Stories, the only two shows I'm currently watching on TV..
"...If you like shows that have the main character chasing after monsters that were written about in old folklore just to save someone they don't even know..." Give it a shot!.
I'd definitely give it a shot it I were you; depending on if you like shows that have the main character chasing after monsters that were written about in old folklore just to save someone they don't even know.
This show is gutsy.....not many shows deal with, or show the kind of things this show does...I watched it in Sweden,(where I live...yeahhhh)all four episodes, and didn't realize until the 2nd episode that it was run on NBC.I really thought it was a cable produced show.......not only does it deliver sweet looking co-ed dismemberment after attacking werewolf basically eats her to death,but also shows pedophiliac monsters,action and arm ripping jokes....I mean yeah, sure, somethings are off.....
this city is crawling with blödbaden seemingly running wild,yet every single case is assigned to the same detective(are there any more detectives?and why is that specific Chinese cop always fetching what they need?I'm guessing they're his superior but he dresses like the rest of the cops.....,and the model looking vet girlfriend who makes me wonder if the next episode is the one where she dumps him.....other than that........
The writers then draw out the time that it takes for the actors to figure out the problem until the end of the show, arc or season or until you have a coronary.I do not enjoy watching main characters who are suddenly stupid and then turn smart only at the end of the show, season or arc.
When the main characters I like get fooled or out thought, I like it to make sense, not just periodic episodes of mental deficiency.I do not see this type of writing in Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Hobbit, Castle, NCIS, Lee Child, the late great Michael Crichton, etc.
I enjoy reading and watching stories written cleverly and not dependent on cheap devices like periodically stupid characters or suspense that is drawn out just to fill up the time required for the episode and does not enhance the story.
The main character is your average way-too-young-and-pretty TV Detective, living a seemingly normal life, until his sickly aunt shows up and informs him he's inherited the role of a Monster-Slayer (cough-Buffy-Cough) and that his parents, who he thought died in a car-crash, were actually killed by 'Him', a mysterious figure who's also now hunting the main character down.
Of course, no one but our hero can actually see or identify these monster-folk (who are each portrayed by brief glimpses of bad and terribly repetitive CG face-effects), and not wanting to seem crazy he keeps it a secret from his thoroughly unlikable girlfriend and his ridiculously thick-headed partner.
I watched almost every episode of the first season, and entirely regret the time wasted.
Oh God if that is her character in real life, I would stay away from her, because she is boring and annoying.I do not know who wrote her character or casted her, but that person did a very bad job.Summery, Grimm without Julliete is 7/10.
(there is one exception: one guy is actually German, so his pronounciation is good, but the others all suck)And, btw, if these "Grimms" and these "Wesen" came from Germany long time ago, they would either know how to pronounce the words correctly or would have changed them into the language they use in everyday speech.
Love the characters and great choice of main characters, the acting is good, love the set and the overall plot is very different which makes it well worth the watch.
Each episode is a surprise, some have major frights in them, though the one criticism I have is that the main character isn't "grim" enough.But to me the revelation - and half the fun of this show - is the character Monroe, played masterfully by Silas Weir Mitchell - truly funny, bringing a human touch to the monsters on display...
The way the writers mix the Grimm's Fairy tales into present day plots are very interesting.
The way the writers mix the Grimm's Fairy tales into present day plots are very interesting.
I was actually going to rate this as one, but out of loyalty to Grimm stories, it has earned an extra point.You can tell the show has a big budget so invest in some worthwhile writers goddammit.
Presentation is at times equally stupid always repeating stuff that has been shown over and over again so even the most dumb audience can understand it obviously.If you want people acting just the slightest like an average intelligent human being - this is not your show.
The phenomenon is very common with a lot of series, i call it "tension by stupidity".Having a script to become utterly stupid as soon as the writers feel that one party is getting too strong and them apparently being devoid of ideas.So lets just make the characters do more mistakes and bend, bend, bend around the plot...hoping this makes it more exciting.It doesn't.
The idea is great - Nick discovers that he comes from a long line of "grimms" that police the supernatural creatures of the world.
I liked Supernatural for a few seasons then the characters kept coming back to life too much for me and they started introducing angels and other religious esoteric stuff.Grimm has the same feel.
Show had lots of potential in first 2-3 seasons (i'd rate first 2 seasons 8/10) but the writing just took a bad turn one after another, eventually rushing the ending as well.If you've watched the netflix show 'Love', I kind of imagine the writers of Grim like the ones that Gus works with, people just doing it for the sake of doing it with no real propose or storytelling..
I mean I think the ideas great, the back stories of the Wesson can be cool even if they sometimes look really bad.
I just feel that maybe they could have casted the characters a little better and made them more relatable, I really lack any sort of feeling towards the Grimm, I'm always rooting for some dirty angry looking creature to pull his legs off, but instead episode after episode it's just run of mill, hero always wins bad guy loses.
The special effects are good for a made for television show and each character depicted from Grimm's Fairy tales seems to follow the baseline of the original stories.
I am halfway through Season1 of Grimm, and I would just like to say I think the bad reviewers have got it wrong.
Nick's wolf friend, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), who helps him with the cases, is fun to watch, and the rapport between the two guys brings extra humour to the show.
But season 5, especially episode's 12 dialogues are so so silly, they destroyed the series and it was for the best that Grimm was discontinued.
Anyone who writes a bad review about this show, has not seen it from beginning to end.When I first started watching this show, I admit I wasn't THAT intrigued.
The first episode was great, then I kept watching the next episodes in the first season and felt like it wasn't really going anywhere.
Most of the first season is just getting to know what a Grimm is and what they do, it also gets you familiar with different types of Wesen, good and bad.
I like the premise of the story and tie-in with the 21st century and how the "monsters" all know the Grimms without even an introduction.
It has great characters, the plot has interesting takes on classic fairy tales,and there is just the right amount of mystery and hidden back story.There is some awkwardness in the first few episodes of the season as the actors find their characters and the show starts to hit its stride.
They have great chemistry on screen and it really adds a lot to the show.And as you move through the season, more of the back story involving Nick's family and Renard (Roiz) is revealed in a slow burn.
This show is a combo of both the detective and fantasy genre which I think is a beautiful combination and makes sense since fantasy stories at heart are mysteries, whenever we first read them we never really know what land their in or what is there.I really love the dark noir atmosphere the show has, from the use of the darkness and shadows it really has creates a feeling of a foreboding, mysterious and dangerous world where anything could be hiding withing the next shadow.
However one highlight of the battles are that Nick sometimes uses different med evil weapons which is cool because it shows he has a various arsenal and we see certain vessen dispatched in different ways which keeps things fresh.The characters are also great, each of them are three dimensional, have dynamics, they develop and are involving.
She is tough, capable of kicking some ass and she's cute and kinda hot, what can I say I'm attracted to bad girls.But two of my favorite characters are Monroe and Rosalee both are vessen but good people.
I really like the chemistry between both Monroe and her both play off each other well and we see it develop into something more, let alone the fact both are a different vessen species which in a way makes them a bi racial couple which is cool.
Even like it whenever both Juliettte and Rosalee both interact and work together which is always fun and evens things out since most of the show we see the guys have their own dynamics.Grimm is not you usual fairy tale.Rating: 4 stars.
Like most shows when you started watching it you keep going and want to know how the story continues.
I love the character of Monroe and think that he brings a lot to the series.
There is a show that is a million times better, it's called Supernatural - and I don't even watch that but have seen a few of them.Like your police procedurals but with a twist, humour, chemistry, great acting, great writing - Elementary.How people can come on here and rave about this show and give it 8, 9 or 10 stars beggars belief.
Cop is a descendant of the brothers Grimm (of the fairy tales) and can see the real nature of the monster which walk among us as normal people.
In this series the large storyline is so thin that it's hard to suppress the irritation of all the clichés Still, the character isn't bad looking so during the wait for the better stuff (True blood, Walking death) this is a nice way to kill time..
One reviewer mentioned something about the series getting really interesting from episode 10, so I decided to keep on watching.
For the most part, I think it is an interesting show with a unique plot line and characters although I will say it takes some getting use to but overall I am starting to enjoy it..
I digress, in Grimm the show doesn't only focus on the main character, the show allow you to fall in love with and be intrigued by the story lines of literally 10 other co stars.
**** Unsure what constitutes as a spoiler – I wont be talking about individual plots or anything that happens to the characters ****When I watched the first couple of episodes I wasn't sure if I liked it.
The main character is a bit too stereotypical for my liking so I'm glad Munro is in all of the episodes.I don't feel the NEED to get home and watch this and crave more when a episode is over, which is a sign to me that I'm obsessed with a show.
First off, I want to say I really enjoyed watching the series, because of some good acting and a great implementation of the traditional fairy tales.
Not so closely following fairy tales as in Once upon a time, but merely putting 'beings' from them in the normal world works surprisingly well and this makes for some great episodes.
I haven't completely caught up yet but a little ways in season 2 he reveals that he still doesn't know how most Wesen know he's a Grimm.There are more weird inconsistencies like this and I find the contrast with the forceful explaining quite annoying at times.
Instead I really hope this will come back to bite him somehow, how this should happen I leave in great anticipation to the writers.All in all I find it a solid series and I enjoy watching it despite it's flaws, especially because of some great characters like Monroe and Juliet.
Each episode boasts a new crime that needs solving, and it is made better by the fact that we know something supernatural is at work.
We are introduced to new kinds of bad guys in almost every episode; the fact that they're supernatural beings serves to make it more interesting than your normal crime show..
Now the show has Trubel, a girl who doesn't know how to eat properly, doesn't listen to anyone and rides along with Nick and Hank while they do their police work.The actress that they got to play Trubel is painful to watch and its obvious that David, who plays Nick, has to over act his part to make her look better!
Indeed, they are not really monsters at all but a secretive sub culture of human hybrid creatures known as "Vessen".Grimm is an enjoyably creepy series that does not take itself too seriously.The development of storyline is cleverly managed, there is the real sense that the world we see is only superficial and there is another world waiting to be discovered.The acting too is good.
In fact, it's quite good because it presents viewers with a completely different world full of imagination and creativity.A "grimm" is someone who can see the "hidden side" of certain humans, which may possess supernatural abilities or be monsters themselves.
The main character, Nick, is a grimm and works as a detective to solve crimes committed by these people.
Throughout these crimes, in each season there is a main plot or storyline that carries through each episode that keeps you watching so that you can find out more about what's going to happen next.Over the past few seasons, a lot of new creatures have been introduced, and the creativity of the writers is great.
I'm enjoying the ride with the world of Grimm, and I hope they continue to up their game and come up with more stories and subplots that can keep viewers entertained.Great show with entertaining supernatural action scenes and strong musical score, so I give it a 10..
It's like I feel that none of people involved in making the show have never watched a finished episode.
I liked this show from the start, never got bored in any episode..
Good characters and interesting story..
Grimm is a good show and hopefully NBC doesn't can it like it does all of their shows.
Also,like many shows, there are filler episodes which do not advance the plot enough but to my delight, this new season has been so intense that the fillers have been minimal.
The show started slow and but needs to make nick a little more bad ass and after last weeks episode he is coming into his own.
This is a fun series that has nothing specifically great about it, and yet for some reason I like it more each time I watch a new episode.
I real had my hopes with good rating and I read that people think it's great but damn...
When I read the story line, it made it seem like the Grimm was going to kick some ass.
I never care for Juliette, I like adelind better for nick if she truly becomes a good person.
Grimm is now one of my favourite TV shows of all time, enjoyable plots and twists around the corner on nearly every episode.
Started to watch recently from season one and I became addicted after first few episodes.