Grimm

 

 

Let Your Hair Down: Season 1, Episode 7, Written by: Holly Dale

                We start by seeing a young couple hiking in the woods when they encounter a drug dealer. The drug dealer takes the young couple to his camp, threatening to kill them, when they start hearing something following them. The drug dealer goes to investigate, but seconds later, we see his silhouette being torn to pieces.

                We then see Detective Nick Burkhardt and his partner Detective Hank Griffin driving up to the camp site/crime scene. While examining the body, Hank notices that the drug dealer’s neck is severely bruised and that there are some long brown hairs on his body. While Nick goes deeper into the woods, he spots a dark figure watching him. He pursues the figure, but when the figure turns around Nick sees that she is a little girl; not only that, he also sees that she is a Blutbad. A Blutbad is kind of like a werewolf. Back at the station, Nick and Hank get the hair, most likely belonging to the girl, analyze and they find out it belongs to a girl named Holly Clark, a girl who disappeared years before. Nick, who is a bit confused with this whole Grimm thing, goes to Monroe, his friend who is also a Blutbad.  Monroe agrees to help find the missing girl. The next morning, Nick and Monroe go into the woods where Nick last saw Holly, so Monroe can sniff her out. After they find Holly, they chase her to a tree where she suddenly vanishes. Not knowing where she went, Nick and Monroe climb the tree. Up there they find a little hideout and in it Holly is treating her wounds. Nick realizes that the wounds are too bad for her or Nick to heal, and decides to take her to the hospital. Monroe thinks that is a terrible idea because she is a wild Blutbad who hasn’t been around civilization, but Nick does not listen to him. After she is treated and us checked out of the hospital, Holly is reunited with her family.

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Comments:

-          One thing I love about this episode is the relationship between Holly and Monroe. When Nick and Monroe first found Holly, she was frightened, but once she realized Monroe was like her, he became almost like a father figure to Holly.

-          I think the writers did an excellent job of making the Rapunzel story modern. In the actual fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm make it seem that nobody really cares that a girl is missing, but in modern times, it’s everyone’s top priority to find a missing child, and I just find it fascinating how they brought out how the people in the fairy tale could have reacted.

-          I like that in this episode Nick is still so clueless about the world of Grimm. In the most recent episodes, Nick is use to this world and all its monsters so it is refreshing to look back at when he knew nothing and was as clueless as we, the viewers, are.

Here's the promo for the episode!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ReVTRD94sc

Grimm

Pilot: Season 1, Episode 1, Written by: Marc Burkland

    
      The show begins with Detective Nick Burkhardt coming home from work to find a woman in his house. It is Nick's Aunt Marie, who tells them they need to talk. They go outside where Marie tells Nick that she is dying; she then him the family secret: he is a Grimm. Marie explains that the Brothers Grimm fairy tales are true and that there actually are monsters. Being a Grimm means he is one of the few people with the ability to see those monsters. The next day, Nick is still freaked out about his conversation with Marie, but is distracted when his partner Hank Griffin calls with a missing person case. Nick meets up with Hank in the woods where he gets a brief recap of what happens.  A young college student went on her morning jog through the woods and has not been seen since. Nick finds her body torn to shreds and sees a footprint nearby. The next day, Nick gets a call about a little girl going missing in the same woods. Nick and Hank follow the path the little girl likely took and find the exact same footprints. They follow the footprints to find that it leads to a man; but suddenly Nick sees this man’s face change -- it changes into a monster, and then it returns to normal. Nick assumes this monster-man is the culprit, and runs him to the ground. After a ton of police work, this monster-man, whose name is Monroe, is released without any charges being filed. Nick, still suspicious of what he saw, goes back to Monroe’s house. Suddenly, out of his house comes this big wolf-like creature. It’s Monroe, he is aBlutbad, which is more or less a werewolf. After assuring Nick he does not eat people, Monroe becomes helpful in the case. Monroe helps sniff out the real culprit, who is another Blutbad. Monroe leaves because he does not want to get involved, so Nick calls Hank. A middle-aged man lets Nick and Hank into the house; they search the house, finding nothing. Just as they are about to leave, Hank hears a thud. When they turn back to the house the middle-aged man, who is a Blutbad, is ready to fight. In all the commotion, the Blutbad gets shot. He dies before he can say where the girl is. In their search for the girl, Nick finds a trap door in a basement where they find the little girl.

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Comments:

-This show interests me.  It takes a new spin on cop shows by incorporating this mystical feel. But instead of making it nice and sweet, they show not only thatmonsters are terrifying, but sometimes monsters are humans, and humans have those dark sides too.

-Another reason why I love this show is that almost every episode of Grimm deals with a different fairy tale. Fairy tales are supposed to be happy and nice but the writers reveal them for what they really are: horrifying. (This episode is ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, if you were wondering.)

-I love Monroe. I look back on this episode and find it hilarious that Nick could ever possibly think a nonthreatening-looking-guy like Monroe could possibly be evil.

 

Stay tuned for my post next week!

Supernatural

Hook Man, Season One, Episode Seven, Written by: John Shiban

This episode begins with a couple making out in a car. The guy starts to take advantage of the girl when they hear something scratching on a nearby sign. The guy steps out to investigate. After waiting a few minutes, the girl, Lori, hears a thudding sound on the roof; she steps out of the car to find the boy hanging on the tree above the car’s roof.

            In the next scene, Sam and Dean are coming into town pretending to be college students. They find out where Lori is and go to talk to her. She tells them that the police do not believe her because she says that the murderer was invisible. This, and the fact that the boy was hanging dead from a tree, led Sam and Dean to the conclusion that the murderer is the Hook Man, because the Hook Man is known for hanging his victims. Later, Lori goes up to her room to find her roommate, a party girl, asleep; when Lori wakes up the following morning, her roommate is dead in her bed. Sam and Dean go to the room to investigate and try to find a connection between the two murders. That same evening, Lori finds out her father, a minister, is sleeping with a married woman. After a heated argument between Lori and her father, the Hook Man comes and tries to kill the father. At this point, Sam and Dean are certain that the Hook Man is connected with Lori and that he is punishing everyone Lori thinks is doing something wrong.

            Sam and Dean discover that the only way to kill the Hook Man is to burn his hook. The next evening, Sam finds Lori in the church where they are looking for the hook.  Lori has made the connection that she is somehow to blame for these murders. She therefore believes that she should be punished, and the Hook Man will be happy to take care of that by killing her, too.  The Hook Man corners Sam and Lori, but Dean finds the hook at the last minute and throws it in the fire. The Hook Man burns along with his hook.

Here's the Hook Man death!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPnBKWR-Ts0

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Comments:

-I like this episode because the creators dug up a really old and famous ghost story that had been forgotten about, and they made it more modern.

-The beginning of the episode was very stereotypical - a guy and a girl in a car making out.  That doesn’t happen very often in Supernatural.  I found it funny how the creators did something so out of character.

-A final reason to love this episode, although it wasn’t central to the plot, is that Sam and Lori kissed!  Remember, since the first episode when Jess died, Sam hasn’t been in a romantic relationship.