Grimm is currently in danger of moving from formulaic to repetitive. Here's Christine's review of Last Fight...
This week’s episode of Grimm, Last Fight, seemed a little more filler than killer. As much as you can’t expect lightning-fast plot developments and wall-to-wall action every week, you should be able to come away with more at the end of the episode than a shrug and a hope that next week’s is better.
Nick’s experiencing strange visions, Trubel is being courted by a secret Wesen-hunting task force and Wu’s sniffing around for the truth – yet nothing really happened to move any of these plotlines along.
Chavez abducts Trubel off the street in order to confirm her suspicion that she’s a Grimm. We discover the Fed’s recruiting for a covert group of operatives that track down Wesen wrongdoers, although their motives for undertaking this “important work” are still murky at this point.
It could mean more Grimms though, which would prove interesting. However, Trubel doesn’t tell Nick about her encounter with Chavez, which seems strange considering his role as her rescuer and mentor.
Nick himself keeps brushing off Wu’s attempts to get to the bottom of why he’s harbouring a murder suspect. Friend or not, I would be seriously pissed now if I were Wu.
This week’s strange bedfellows were Monroe and Rosalee and Sean Renard’s mother, Elizabeth Lascelles, who set off in search of a way to reverse Adalind’s spell on Nick.
Don’t forget Elizabeth was a contemporary of Adalind’s mother, Catherine Schade, and is a formidable opponent to Adalind. Her comment “To beat a Hexenbiest like Adalind you need a Hexenbiest like me,” is spot on.
Indeed, Elizabeth seems to have some serious Columbo-style detective skills as she determines how Adalind cast her spell – and the potential side effects she didn’t realise came with the deception. Referring to Nick and Adalind she says the spell “ties them together in unpredictable ways,” without realising how true the statement is.
For their day job, Nick and Hank investigate a dodgy fight promoter that they suspect might be Wesen. Hank persuades Nick to bring Trubel in on the case. Where she ends up killing the perp. Again. And Nick and Hank decide to cover it up. Again. “We can’t keep doing this,” says Nick. Amen to that!
We do see the first sign that Nick is missing his powers, but it’s all still a bit wishy-washy. I’d like to see a massive blow-up between Nick and Juliette – the couple who never argue, despite Nick’s vocation constantly putting both their lives in danger, or Nick cheating on Juliette with a witch.
Elsewhere Bud made a reappearance, although there was no real reason for it, as far as I can tell. But hey, it’s always good to see Bud.
In general it would be great to see the show pick up some momentum, as it’s currently in danger of moving from formulaic to repetitive. Or even offer a tiny bit more depth to the characters – Nick and Juliette in particular – as up to now, Wu has been the only one that has demonstrated any kind of emotional reaction to what he’s experienced.
The episode finished with some dodgy looking types in masks scoping out the Spice Shop. They could be Viktor’s goons, or the resistance (it was hard to tell if they were wearing black leather jackets) or they could work alongside Chavez. Whichever way, I hope we get to see the fireworks we deserve.
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