I watched this series with pleasure. It was not too intense but also never shallow. Nice series for relaxed evenings.
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guenterfmang6 August 2019
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shoppsi5 June 2022I don't know how I missed this when it came out back in 2011 or how I never heard of it until 2022 on Prime, but wow, am I glad I found it now.
I"m on season 6 and am sad because this is the last season and I don't want it to end.
It sort of reminds me of Buffy for older viewers, and I love the chemistry all of the characters have with one another.
I like the monster of the week episodes best, but I felt the same way back when I watched the XFiles and Supernatural...just a lot more fun with monster of the week episodes, lol.
My favorite characters are Rosalee and Monroe. They remind me of Xander and Willow. I'd totally watch a spinoff based on them.
It's a fun series, and as a fan of all shows with a supernatural bent, I wish there were more like this. -
Grimm is a really good show where you basically learn that Grimm's fairy tales was not really fairy tales after all. Nick, the main character, is coming to terms with this whole new world and the fact that he is a Grimm. I like that this is the type of show that you can watch with friends, kids, and even your grandmother because it's good for all audiences. I love supernatural type shows and this is a really good one. The only real complaint that I have about the show is the acting, mostly, Juliette's acting. She is just not a real character that you learn to grow and love like most shows typically do. When things happen to her it's pretty much just like whatever, he's better off because her acting or lack there of can get pretty annoying. Anyway, really good show and do recommend.
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This is a GREAT show!...Cleverly written and the actors are wonderful! Our Family LOVES this show! The way the writers mix the Grimm's Fairy tales into present day plots are very interesting. Seeing Portland,Oregon in all it's beauty and lushness is quite breathtaking. We especially liked the refrigerator repair man on "Danse Macabre". Of course Monroe is always fun. Kate Burton was a wonderful surprise on the pilot episode. David Giuntoli and Danny Bruno are AWESOME!!!!!!! The special effects are amazing. We like the autopsy scenes too even though pretty gruesome! It's way cool! I hope that NBC does the smart thing and keeps this one going... It's certainly a HIT in our house. Sincerely, Nancy Di Leo and Family.
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jecreath-235-94134710 December 2011I was skeptical when I heard of a cop procedural meets fairy tale show. We've already got something pretty close to that (or we used to) with Supernatural. But while in the folktales course I took this year, my TA suggested it and gave it good reviews so I figured why not. And I'm so glad I did.
This show gives a refreshing spin to the stories we all grew up hearing from our parents and grandparents. For once, they weren't being spoon fed to us as these colorful tales that always had a nice, neat happily ever after. They're dark and menacing and a bit terrifying just as they were intended to be when the Grimm brothers wrote them down in the first collections. The portrayals of the "monsters" is a great blend between scary and amusing that brings back the nostalgic Buffy fan in me (which makes sense seeing as David Greenwalt helped create this). There are some rough spots and the characters need some more development (more Monroe, please!) but that's nothing a bit of time can't remedy. A lot of shows are a little shaky during those first few episodes and start to get their stability once they've found their voice. Seeing as we're only six episodes in, I think things are going pretty well.
As for all the negative feedback from various sources saying it isn't as good as Once Upon A Time, the two are completely different entities. Despite the fairy tale connection, they barely have anything in common. Once Upon A Time is to Grimm the way that Disney is to Horror films. They aren't even in the same drama. Not that there's anything wrong with Once Upon A Time but to constantly compare the two and debate which is better is a waste of energy and time. Hopefully, Grimm can pick up a bit more favor or reviews with a little less bias in favor of OUAT. Either way, we've got till May to see if these fairy tales have happy endings for all. -
kolatspy-683-22001424 October 2011After viewing the pilot of this show, I think it has a lot of potential. Yes it follows the tried and true formula of expose modern individual to some sort of secret war/history/duty/etc, but there is a lot they can do with it from there. It did its job as a pilot: introduce characters, introduce conflict, and give you the general idea how the episodes will go. I think it is about time we had a new show that runs the good old man vs. monster bit, especially one that isn't prone to becoming some touchy-feely WB-esque teen drama. While its too early to judge the show as a whole, it promises good things. I hope it delivers.
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xkristitx17 September 2019Wow. I'm only on season 5, but I am beyond blown away with this show. I'm surprised a NBC show was so beautifully written. It hooked me instantly on the first episode. Each episode you dig deeper and deeper and you get more and more sucked in. My only negative comments revolve around the acting, Claire Coffee who plays Adalind Schade is by far the most annoying character. I think her character could've been played by a much better actress. On top of that it took me awhile to get into a Juliet's character she was very annoying in the beginning but then you grow to love her. I am sad I didn't watch this when it aired on tv, but I am glad I found it now. Can't wait to finish it, but it is definitely worth watching. I recommend it highly. Hopefully it doesn't let me down when it ends.
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This show started really well for me - almost a 10/10 in the beginning. It has a good main plot - a detective with special skills unmasking the various criminal Wesen in his hometown, who is also the target of several factions with their own agenda.
In the beginning, there are lots of single episodes which deal with only a single kind of criminal Wesen. This is good as it gives us a feel of the different creatures, as well as help slowly develop the characters of the main recurring Wesen cast. But now that there are other story lines developing from the main one: the Royal Family, the baby, the Resistance, the treasure map, his mother's activities, etc, I felt the show should now spend less, if any, time on single-episode creatures that have no bearing on the future of the show. It's a distraction from developing the main and other story lines.
But the show still manages to maintain my interest because it continues, albeit slower than I like, to develop the subplots into something potentially good. And the new creatures that are sometimes introduced are interesting, though I hope any new ones from now on actually have an impact on the current developing story lines. -
kosmasp12 April 2020Do you like fables? Fantasy stories and creatures in general? You will have quite the feast here - if you accept certain flaws that is. While the characters are nicely written, this falls mostly under the monster of the week category. There is some building up and characters developing to a certain extent. But it also lets them do things and then lets them get away without or little consequences.
There is also quite the coincidences and stuff that does not make sense. Things get sweaped under the rug and we have the "Buffy" level of knowledge: check the book. Which is all fine and dandy, but also quite a stretch to be fair. I know that some might feel the world depicted here is a stretch itself, which is fair. But even in the world and the rules set, it breaks them from time to time to say the least.
You can't be too mindful of things like that, otherwise you won't enjoy the show at all. It is fun and watching the outtakes make you like the actors even more. Which might make it harder to rate this the way you wanted to rate it ... I was thinking about going an 8 just because of that, but even though the finale was also very good, it was also very predictable and gave us a character (re)turn, that should not have happened. The lines can blur between good and evil ... but sometimes it is too much ... not to mention the return of ... but let's leave the soap opera elements alone and just enjoy this for what it is ... light and fun entertainment -
jdslider1224 February 2012This show has appeal and intrigue, which is why I really like it. In many ways, it is believable, or makes a solid attempt to be (although elements of fantasy might not be a match for some peoples limited reality). It awakens your imagination and pushes it a little further. It is exciting and the action is constant in its delivery, which keeps your interest. You don't always know what to expect, while at other times, you may try to solve the mystery and prove yourself right, or wrong.
The characters are engaging and likable, for the most part. There are some that are waiting in the wings to make their "big move", but you kind of assume that and wait for it. You may not be certain as to their "true" role in the grand scheme of things.
While some "horror" elements exist, they are limited, appropriately concealed for network TV, and easily digested. This does not, in my opinion, take away from the x-factor that this show delivers. The show makes you feel as though you are a part of it, and allows you to put yourself in one of the roles, if you dare to imagine.
In the beginning, I thought that it was a blend of CSI and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, after watching all the episodes, it has made its own unique mark. Therefore, the GRIMM has a "thumbs up" from me. Keep it going, or at least find a good adoptive station to carry its flag. -
...you skip every scene this annoying turd Juliette is appearing in or being talked about. After I started skipping the above mentioned scenes, the show was quite entertaining and fun to watch. I can't help it, but this character just annoys the f out of me, as many other reviewers already said.
The rest of the show is nothing spectacular and the scheme is always the same but if you don't binge it, it is quite good.
As others already wrote, I don't get it, why most american shows insist on turning themselves into soap operas all the time regardless of the genre. Every show hast this romance and relationship crap in them. It has become really difficult finding something which doesn't consist of a dozen relationships, romances, marriage, divorce, whatever stuff. -
Nysa119 November 2011Grimm 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. Only time will tell if it can stay interesting, but for now I am extremely optimistic. 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. It has an end written into the story & if they try to drag it out too long it will start to seem ridiculous. Grimm on the other hand, can last as long as the writers keep finding more folktales & there are thousands of those. -
lsimonesq8 April 2017I watched this series from beginning to end, but mostly because I wanted to know where it was going to end. The first couple of seasons were very entertaining, and you were very much rooting for our hero the entire time. I'm not really sure where it happened, but somewhere along the line, they ran out of ideas and the show became a bit of a Melrose Place situation. Our hero loses his love when she is transformed into one of the creatures he is fighting, but then falls in love with one of his mortal enemies who killed his mother????? What???? And only because she got pregnant while posing as his girlfriend. I had no idea that men could be that forgiving the moment that a woman gets pregnant. The whole thing was sort of ridiculous but to top it off, now you're supposed to root for a character that you hated for the previous seasons. It's not that bad characters cannot become good, but it should take something more than just getting pregnant for them to redeem themselves. I watched the rest of the series just out of curiosity and because there's not a lot on Friday nights, but seriously it was painful to watch at times.
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jkspawspa8 October 2018Not sure if it's the writers or the actress herself.
I cringed at her character in season 2. Gave it a try for season 3. Got to season 4 and she killed it for me again. (Pun intended) I see I am not alone in saying they cast the wrong person. She isn't easy on the eyes. Skinny may be cool, but you need a personality. There is no chemistry between her and Nick. Monroe's character is the only thing that keeps me watching. -
Bored_Dragon9 December 2016In the beginning, I wasn't sure if I will watch it or give up on it, but after a few episodes I was completely addicted. The show follows the usual pattern of crime dramas, but its focus is on cases that involve beings from fairy-tales. None of those aspects is new or original, but till now shows were focused either on one or another, while the way this show combines them is new and interesting, made to attract both fans of crime dramas like "CSI" and fans of fantasy like "Supernatural" or "Once Upon a Time". Warm recommendation to everyone, regardless of what genre you prefer.
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Grimm is one of a few shows with realistic characters who are neither perfectly benevolent nor malicious. The lead character is a detective who is sent on a mission by his dying aunt to rid Portland, Oregon of evil people who are actually not completely human. The protagonist is not perfect as he frequently looks out for many of his own needs taking advantage of other people in the process. He is mostly good, but not perfect which is exactly what the show needs. Furthermore, I enjoy role of the protagonist's girlfriend. She is aware he has a secret and she wants to help, but he knows telling her about who he is will place her life in danger. The protagonist has an official and unofficial partner which is a great twist in the show because it divides the show into two halves. Part of the show is dedicated to solving the official crime and the other part of the show is dedicated to catching the evil partial people. The unofficial partner is possibly the best character in the show because he believes he should assist the protagonist to make up for his troubled past. The reason I am not giving this show a 10 is because I am getting tired of the show taking place entirely in Portland, Oregon. How does the protagonist find so many of these partial human creatures, which are supposed to be fairly rare, just in the city of Portland alone? It is starting to get a little silly when the "rare" creatures account for about 1/10 of the population. However, this is the only major flaw of the show and it is easy to overlook. In a scale of 1-10 in which 1 is the worst, 10 is the best and 5 is average. This show is a 9/10 Great and highly recommended.
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Eternalkid13 February 2013Rarely does a series move me to review it. But this one is quite special. The premise is almost like Monsters Inc where the little girl scares the monsters under the bed - just made for adults. And what a lot of monsters there are here! The possibilities are almost endless...
Vaguely based on the Grimm tales, this series transports those tales into the 21st century far better than any other recent attempt at it. 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... he truly deserves an award for his role in this. -
dleeliberty27 April 2020This show is by far one of my favorites of all time. Every episode is a new adventure, and there are quite a few very intense moments that will have you begging to watch the next episode.
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6.5/10 is better judgement. Show starts good, very good in fact but then starts to pass time with too much time wasting with daily cases. This show works on similar concept as Supernatural. Action is very good and story too when it moves :P . This show is about a guy who's family legacy comes knocking one day out of no where and learns the fact that his destiny is to hunt down bad creatures and find hidden secrets concealed by few keys making a map hidden by his ancestors and likes. Why i gave it so less rating is because this show lacks flow and sometimes you just wanna fast forward the useless junk (Supernatural is funny and entertaining but this is not) it is throwing at you again and again. I mean if you count only story parts, 5 season would not even make 1 complete season continuous with story. Just timepass in all but better than many dumb shows.
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ericsaxon252 December 2011I'm glad that the networks are finally competing for an audience again. 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. -
draftdubya4 November 2020I would've gave this a ten if they killed them off after season 3. Trubel story is just stupid and cilched . All the cops in Portland saw the picture of her in a stolen truck, but non of them can recognize her when Nick and Hank brings her to a live crime scene. For some reason she has to eat with her hands. Then you have Juliette, the wooden plank of the show. The show slows to a crawl every single time she on the screen. They should've paired Nick with Angelina(Jamie Ray Newman) she is 10 times a better actor than Juliette, but the idiots had to kill her off.
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SnoopyStyle1 April 2017Portland police detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) lives a normal life. He is planning to propose to girlfriend Juliette Silverton (Elizabeth Tulloch). He and his partner Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby) are investigating an unusual case when he starts having strange visions of people turning animalistic. He is visited by aunt Marie who is dying of cancer. She passes on a family history and her trailer. They are Grimms and able to see Wesens or mythical creatures hiding as normal human beings. He takes in Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), a Blutbad, as a suspect at first and then his best friend in the fight against Wesen crimes. He is attacked by Adalind Schade (Claire Coffee) who is in league with his Captain Sean Renard (Sasha Roiz). Wu (Reggie Lee) is a patrol cop. Rosalee Calvert (Bree Turner) runs her family's apothecary shop. Trubel (Jacqueline Toboni), a distant cousin, is also Grimm as well as Nick's mother (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).
I wouldn't call Giuntoli the greatest of actors but he fits the role very well. He is a good center around whom to build a great Scooby Doo gang. Silas Weir Mitchell is the first piece. He has great humanity as a Blutbad who refuses to kill. As each piece falls into place, the group becomes a family. On a purely entertainment value, this is great fun and an enjoyable group of characters. As a concept, this starts off with a few bumps in the road. They are mostly put aside or ironed out. As a procedural, there is interesting fun as each different type of Wesen is revealed. As a serial, there is a good progression over the years. This was never a prestige show but it was always the most addictive show on the network's Friday schedule. -
marcusklugman17 October 2019Watched every episode of all seasons. Think Starsky & Hutch meets Buffy the vampire slayer (just no vampires - anywhere - and Huggy Bear isn't a bear, he's a dog - of some kind). The format is a Detective can see monster forms of people that no-one else can. Each episode features part of a story arc mixed in with that weeks adventure mystery (which may or may not be linked to the story arc). So, the negatives first. The Juliette/Eve character doesn't work. She does, a little, initially. but then she becomes, as a character, quite annoying, for some reason. Then they change her character completely, which is just so weird! S1 & 2 are pretty good. Then something starts to go wrong in S3 and bottoms out in S4. S5 starts to pull it back, S6 gets better, but doesn't get back before S7 kills the franchise. If I was guessing I would say that the budget was getting tight by S3 and the producers were hoping it would trade from it's initial success. There are some elements that just don't work and annoy (can a DC3 really fly around half the world?). And they start to get tight on filming budget in S3 as can be seen by the Royal Castle moving to a FX version!! Also, they do seem to, quite literally, loose the plot! Several times! The Royals are never properly explained and then they just drop that whole story arc in S6 and do something else. And what's with the conveyor belt of Royal Princes? Why do they keep changing?! Finally, the mixture of story arc and episode adventure mystery theme starts to disconnect by S3 and gets really bad in S4. It is possible to skip through the arc linking segments and watch the adventure mystery part without loosing any understanding of that episodes plot! And then you find that the whole thing is just a little too formulaic - and they know it as they start to joke about it! But, the positives...... Actually, the whole idea is really quite good. Lifting Grimms fairy tales and putting them in a modern context. Some of the episodes are very clever with this. The spin on the 3 little pigs is very clever! The episodes are each good little adventures and the early episodes where the lead character can't explain what's happening are especially good. The rocking adventure and thriller of S6 & 7 are different to S1 &2, but really enjoyable. All in all, I actually really enjoyed watching the program and can recommend - just keep your finger on the fast forward button!
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I started watching Grimm when it first aired here in Germany. In the beginning it seemed kind of similar to Supernatural with the whole plot revolving around the main character hunting monsters but trust me, if you have to choose between the two, Supernatural is the better choice.
The story revolves around the detective Nick Burkhardt who finds out he's a so-called "Grimm", a descendant of the Grimm Brothers, shortly before his aunt dies. As a Grimm he can see the true form of all kinds of monsters that disguise themselves as regular humans, undetected by the average citizen. It's a Grimm's job to hunt these monsters, which is why most of them are pretty scared of our dear detective until he proves to them that he's one of the very few "nice Grimms" that only kill when they have to. So far this doesn't sound too bad, right?
I'm sure this show could've been a lot better if some of the characters and the writing weren't pretty damn horrible. After watching 4 seasons now (because I'm sadly just one of those people who need to know how a story ends after starting to read/watch it, no matter how bad it is) I still don't know what the point of Juliette's character is. She is Nick's extremely unlikeable girlfriend and that seems to be her only purpose in the show because a main character just can't exist without a love interest, I guess. She has zero personality and while it's understandable that having a kind of supernatural boyfriend is probably pretty hard sometimes, Juliette is extremely annoying about it. Every season I'm just waiting for the point at which she goes: "I just can't do this anymore, Nick" which is then followed by some relationship drama that is resolved later down the road. And the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats like a broken record.
Then there's the fact that literally every single case he and his partner have to solve after Nick's awakening as a Grimm suddenly turns out to be monster-related. Not a single exception in 4 seasons. Stuff like this makes sense in shows like Supernatural because there the hunters travel the whole country specifically looking for monsters they can hunt but in Grimm it's just really unrealistic. Nick is just a cop who has to solve the cases he's assigned to but it's like regular people committing regular crimes just isn't a thing anymore all of a sudden.
And now the worst part: The German. I get why they tried putting elements of the German language into the show (it's loosely based on German fairytales after all) but it's so poorly done! It's like the writers put in zero effort to create grammatically correct names for the monsters or to teach the actors correct pronunciation. As a native German speaker I literally couldn't understand them when they were speaking German. Some of the words they came up with for their fictional world make no sense at all. People that are supposed to be German can't speak the language without an accent so heavy you can tell that they have never spoken a word in German before filming that scene. It's just extremely cringeworthy.
Apart from all this the show fails to create any kind of tension. It's pretty predictable and repetitive. Monster commits crime, detective Burkhardt either arrests monster or kills it. Sometimes he has help. Juliette finds a reason to be annoying.
You can watch this show if you're just looking for some background noise while doing something else or if you want something that's very easy to digest. I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for actual good entertainment. -
TheLittleSongbird30 October 2023'Grimm' (2011-2017)
Opening thoughts: 'Grimm' appealed to me straightaway, despite taking a while to get round to it. Absolutely loved the premise which was the show's biggest selling point, darker, more supernatural and more mysterious twists on famous fairytales (some already quite dark) sounded absolutely great. Different twists on famous stories and characters is not a new thing, with shows like 'The 10th Kingdom' and 'Once Upon a Time' still existing, but they didn't have the tone and themes that 'Grimm' did.
As an overall whole, 'Grimm' was really impressive. Actually found the earlier seasons absolutely wonderful, while finding that the show started to run out of ideas a little in the last few ones. There is actually very little wrong, but the very little that is wrong turned out to be quite big issues when they became more prominent. They are outweighed though by what 'Grimm' does right, which is a lot and most of the components were executed outstandingly.
Bad things: Am going to begin with the not so good things. It is brought down by two characters that really annoyed me, with both being flatly acted. One was Adalind, who didn't have an awful lot of personality, or at least to begin with, and her soap operatic antics did too often irritate (some unnecessary). Did appreciate though that she was made more sympathetic later. Even worse was Juliette, who is incredibly annoying, especially when she was more dominant (i.e. Season 4). Due to her stubborn-ness, selfishness and know it all nature being exaggerated in the writing.
There were times where the storytelling relied a little too much on contrivances and coincidences.
Good things: So much is fantastic. Most of the acting is fine, with David Guintoli and Silas Weir Mitchell being throughout absolutely captivating. Nick is a fascinating and charismatic character and loved how truly Monroe often is. Their chemistry is great fun. The characters on the most part are well written and had well fleshed out personalities and development, Nick particularly. A vast majority of the writing is full of wit and intrigue, apart from some soap opera creeping in in the latter seasons.
Furthermore, a vast majority of the storytelling is very imaginative, deliciously dark and full of entertainment value, with any conflicts having a good deal of suspense. Wholly living up to the great premise. The mystery elements always intrigued, the spin on the stories and characters used inspired and inventive as well as uncompromising and the supernatural ones were just about easy to follow. The villains are suitably menacing. It is a very well made show and looks a lot more expensive than it actually was, very atmospheric scenery and sets, wonderfully moody photography and lighting and the effects didn't look cheap. The music had energy but also an ominous vibe.
Concluding thoughts: Concluding, very good and often fantastic.
8/10.