For some inscrutable reason, Grimm decided not to suck last night. Going into the episode, I had a feeling of resignation, that would just be another installment of a C-grade cop show with fantasy creatures thrown in for window dressing. It wasn’t. Last night’s episode was actually kind of good. Was it brain-shatteringly awesome? No, not at all. But, it was well-crafted, fun to watch, and if every episode were like this, Grimm would be a pretty solid horror/fantasy show.
The plot revolved around fairy tale beasties using ground up human organs as herbal enhancements of sorts. Monroe mentions that dried and ground up man-balls apparently work just like Viagra for him and his, and that lots of beasties will pay copious amounts of dollars for the opportunity turn people-parts into tea. The organ traffickers are found to be preying off of homeless kids (more specifically, these homeless kids) by getting them into a free clinic. From there, the evil beastie-doctors drag them out to the woods, harvest their organs, and sell them in an herb shop to fairy tale critters who want to snort ground-up gallbladder. Nick and Hank of course busted up the organ ring, saved some cute homeless kids, and along the way some real, actual character development and world building happened. Imagine that!
This episode also showed off a whole lot of Portland. The details about what parts of our fair city got spackled onto the TV, as well as my blitheringly enthusiastic exclamations about why this episode didn’t suck, after the jump.
