Some months ago, I came home to find a yellow flap of paper attached to the door outside my apartment. “Grimm will be filming in your area!” said the paper, and proceeded to announce that a portion of Mississippi would be blocked off by the show’s crew for a day. For a while, the crew’s port-o-potties were directly outside my apartment building, and I’d been waiting with the most tepid of anticipation to see the episode that apparently was important enough to shut down traffic on my street.
A good hunk of last night’s episode took place in the Rebuilding Center (referred to as “Marty’s Junk Shop” in the show), which is a block away from where I live. As boilerplate as some of it was, I have to admit that it was a lot of fun watching an hour of network television that took place in a highly recognizable business a mere block away from where I live. The St. Johns Bridge also featured prominently, for the second time in the series (there was also quite a lot of it in episode five). I can’t really blame the show’s creators for using it twice in quick succession. It’s huge, it’s beautiful, and it’s highly distinctive. I would not begrudge them continued shots of that given piece of engineering.
After the jump: Murder mice! Snake men! Ambushes! Mediocrity!
