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Grimm
is
an American occult detective police procedural drama series. It
debuted in the U.S. on NBC on October 28, 2011. The show has been
described as "a cop drama—with a twist... a dark and
fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by
Grimms' Fairy Tales exist", although the stories and characters
inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources.
On
April 5, 2016 NBC renewed Grimm for a sixth season, consisting of 13
episodes. On August 29, 2016, NBC announced season 6 would be the
final season and that it will premiere on January 6, 2017.
Synopsis:
Homicide investigator
Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Department learns he is
descended from a line of guardians known as Grimms, charged with
keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of
the world called Wesen, the German word for being or creature.
Throughout the series, he must battle against an assortment of
dangerous creatures, with help from his Wesen friend, Monroe, and his
partner, Detective Hank Griffin.
Opening: "There
once was a man who lived a life so strange, it had to be true. Only
he could see what no one else can—the darkness inside...the real
monster within...and he's the one who must stop them. This is his
calling. This is his duty. This is the life of a Grimm."
Cast
and characters:
David Giuntoli as Nicholas "Nick"
Burkhardt, the eponymous Grimm. Nick is a Homicide detective, whose
Aunt Marie (Kate Burton) tells him that he is descended from a line
of hunters, called Grimms, who fight supernatural forces. Even before
his abilities manifested, Nick had an exceptional ability to make
quick and accurate deductions about the motivations and pasts of
individuals, which has now expressed itself as his ability to
perceive aspects of the supernatural that nobody else can see. He
temporarily lost his Grimm power after the event of season 3 finale
through a revenge scheme by Adalind, but regained them in the season
4 episode "Highway of Tears". He later learns that Adalind
is carrying his child, which was revealed to be a boy, whom Adalind
named "Kelly" after Nick's mother (Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio).
Russell Hornsby as Hank Griffin,
Nick's Homicide partner, who is not aware that Nick is a Grimm until
Episode 3 of Season 2. He is somewhat sarcastic at times and has gone
through at least four marriages by the time the series begins;
nevertheless, he is Nick's best friend in the human world, becoming
closer once again after Nick revealed the truth about his Grimm
heritage and the Wesen out in the world.
Bitsie
Tulloch as Juliette Silverton (Seasons 1–4) and Eve (season 5),
Nick's girlfriend, a veterinarian. She was originally unaware of
Nick's duties as a Grimm until he tells her in the finale of Season
1. However, by Season 2, a magically induced amnesia removes Nick
from her memory altogether, to the extent that she only forgets Nick
while still remembering characters like Monroe when she only met him
through Nick. Although Nick's Aunt Marie suggested that he leave
Juliette for her safety, Nick decided to stay with her. He postponed
his original plans to propose to her while he explores his new life
as a Grimm. She eventually regained her memories and learned the
truth of Nick's abilities, joining him in dealing with some
Wesen-related problems, such as finding a cure for a disease that
gave human children the appearance of Wesen. In Season 4, a series of
events and dangerous spells results in Juliette becoming an
exceptionally powerful Hexenbiest, and her personality becomes
drastically more antagonistic and less empathetic as a result,
enjoying her power while disregarding her friends' concerns, her
attitude conflicting between reveling in her power and hating Nick's
allies for doing this to her. After her plans for revenge culminate
in the death of Nick's mother, she is shot with a crossbow by Trubel
in the Season 4 finale. In season 5, Tulloch plays "Eve" a
mysterious woman who has all of Juliette’s memories and powers, but
none of her emotional attachments.
Silas Weir
Mitchell as Monroe, a wolf-like creature called a Blutbad who aids
Nick with his cases. He is also a good friend of Nick's, even though
he has some issues with Grimms since a Grimm killed his grandfather
(but he acknowledges that the ancestor deserved it for butchering a
village). Monroe is knowledgeable about many of the wesen that Nick
goes up against, serving as Nick's direct source of insight and
information into the supernatural community whenever the second-hand
knowledge that Nick acquires from his ancestors' books is inadequate,
as well as assisting Nick when cases require Nick to rely on someone
who knows about the threats he faces. He also helps Nick make contact
with creatures that would avoid Nick due to his status as a Grimm.
Eventually, Monroe fell in love with and married Rosalee, despite
facing some hostility from a Wesen cult focused on purity due to
their mixed heritage.
Sasha Roiz as Captain Sean
Renard, a fluent francophone; Nick's adept and efficient superior.
Renard is a magical creature called Zauberbiest and royal bastard.
His mother Elizabeth (Louise Lombard) is a Hexenbiest, a witch; and
his father is a Royal, a fact of which Nick was not aware until the
middle of Season 2. He is also the father of Hexenbiest Adalind
Schade's daughter Diana. In Season Five he was manipulated into
running for mayor as part of a plan by pro-Wesen organization Black
Claw, who seek to put Wesen in a position of power over humans rather
than hiding among them.
Reggie Lee as Sergeant Drew
Wu, a police sergeant who works with Nick and Hank; he tends to do
the "grunt work" for them, running down facts and
information. In Episode 9 (at the beginning) of Season 4, Nick was
forced to tell him everything about the Wesen world after he started
losing his mind due to all the "Wesen" involved murder
cases. Since then he has been a loyal member of Nick's team,
providing an additional hand in the field.
Bree
Turner as Rosalee Calvert (Recurring season 1; Regular season
2–present), a fox-like creature called Fuchsbau who takes over her
brother's Wesen spice shop after he is murdered. Rosalee assists Nick
and Monroe in their efforts by providing more information and
remedies to supernatural problems, such as helping him extract a
golden 'tumor' from a bird-like Wesen or developing a cure for Nick's
Wesen-induced blindness. She married Monroe in the Season 3 finale.
She revealed she was pregnant in the season 5 finale.
Claire
Coffee as Adalind Schade (Recurring season 1; Regular season
2–present), a witch-like wesen called a Hexenbiest who was working
for Renard and who after ingesting Nick's blood, became a normal
human being. Seeking revenge, she poisoned Juliette to forget all
memories of Nick and started colluding with Renard's half-brother,
Eric, eventually regaining her powers through agonizing rituals. She
had a daughter with Sean, Diana Schade-Renard, who has unique powers.
She recently gave birth from an emergency c-section to her second
child, a boy she named Kelly (after Kelly Burkhardt), whose father
was revealed to be Nick as she slept with him during a complex ritual
to take his powers that involved her disguising herself as Juliette.
After Juliette was transformed into Eve, Adaline moved in with Nick
to care for Kelly, the two even forming a relationship, but this was
complicated by the Royals' attempts to use Diana to improve Renard's
image in his mayoral campaign.
Production:
Development and filming:
In 2008,
CBS cancelled development on a drama called Brother Grimm, from
Stephen Carpenter and production companies CBS Paramount Television
and Hazy Mills Productions, because of the writers' strike.
In
January 2011, NBC announced that it had ordered a series titled
Grimm. David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf co-wrote the pilot, which was
directed by Marc Buckland. Filming for the pilot began in March in
Portland, Oregon. In May 2011, NBC announced that it had picked up
the series for a full season.
Greenwalt and Kouf
serve as executive producers for the series along with Sean Hayes and
Todd Milliner. The series is produced by Universal Media Studios and
Hazy Mills Productions. It is filmed on location in and around
Portland. Greenwalt and Kouf told Portland's NBC affiliate KGW they
chose Portland because of its plentiful forests in the city's two
largest parks, Washington Park and Forest Park.
On
September 30, 2011, NBC delayed the debut of Grimm by one month,
moving the premiere to October 28, 2011, so it could premiere closer
to Halloween. On November 21, 2011, NBC picked up the series for a
full 22-episode season. NBC showed a special Thursday showing on
December 8 at 10pm to see if the network's overall ratings could
improve.
On March 16, 2012, NBC announced that the
series had been renewed for a second season; according to
writers/producers David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, they will continue to
film the show in Portland, saying "Rain or shine, Portland has
been the ideal setting for fairy tales with its enchanting layout. It
is its own character in our show with the perfect mix of urban and
rural settings." Grimm ran on Fridays for the entirety of its
first season. The second season premiered on Monday, August 13, 2012,
and continued on Mondays for four episodes, before returning to its
original Friday timeslot on September 10.
On April
19, 2013, NBC announced they would move Grimm to Tuesdays beginning
on April 30, 2013 for the remainder of Season 2 until May 21. Grimm
was renewed for a third season on April 26, 2013. The third season
premiere on October 25, 2013 returned the show to its original Friday
timeslot. On March 19, 2014, NBC announced that Grimm had been
renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on Friday, October 24,
2014.
On February 5, 2015, NBC confirmed a fifth
season for Grimm, which premiered on Friday, October 30, 2015.
As
of April 23, 2016, NBC confirmed at least 13 episodes for a sixth
season.
Casting:
David Giuntoli,
who plays Nick, was the first to be cast. Silas Weir Mitchell was
then cast as Monroe, the now-reformed "big bad wolf".
Following this, Russell Hornsby and Bitsie Tulloch were cast as
Nick's partner Hank and his girlfriend Juliette, respectively. Sasha
Roiz was cast in the final regular role as Captain Renard.
Bree
Turner, who guest starred in four episodes in Season 1, became a
series regular for Season 2, continuing her role as Rosalee Calvert.
Claire Coffee, who has been recurring as Adalind Schade since the
pilot, was also upgraded to series regular during Season 2.
Comics:
In May 2013, Dynamite
Entertainment started releasing a monthly Grimm Comic Book series.
The series ended with issue #12 which was released April 30, 2014.
Books:
The novelist John Shirley
was hired to write the first novel based on the Grimm television
show. Grimm: The Icy Touch was published by Titan Books on November
5, 2013[65] and book 2, Grimm: The Chopping Block, which was written
by John Passarella, was published February 18, 2014. The third novel,
Grimm: The Killing Time, was written by Tim Waggoner and was
published on September 30, 2014.
Broadcast:
The
series premiered in Australia on January 4, 2012 on FOX8, with season
two returning on September 30, 2012, season three on October 30,
2013, and season four on January 7, 2015. The series was replayed on
free-to-air network Seven (as opposed to FOX8 which is a subscription
television network), with season one premiering November 30, 2012.
with season two returning on August 1, 2013, and season three on
October 15, 2014.
In New Zealand the series
premièred on June 18, 2012 on FOUR.
The series
premièred in Canada on October 28, 2011 on CTV, with season two
returning on August 13, 2012, season three on October 25, 2013, and
season four on October 24, 2014.
The series
premièred in the UK on February 13, 2012 on Watch, with season two
returning on October 22, 2012, and season 3 on February 5, 2014. The
fourth season premiered on January 28, 2015.