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Episode 6:13 “The End”

Written by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf

Directed by David Greenwalt

[recap by Maia Ades]

Here it is, our last GRIMM episode post. We may do a series wrap up at a later date, but this is the last episode and last post covering one of the episodes. Overall the writers did a good job of wrapping this series up. Some niggling issues with some of their choices, but it did bring the story to a conclusion.

Talk about cramming story in. This episode is still only 43 minutes long. I thought since it was the series finale that they might make it a longer episode. Instead they put it all in one regular length show. It manages, to not only give us some catch up scenes of what came before, flash backs of bits from the original pilot, it also manages to have the final battle and resolve it all in the end. And that is probably the highest compliment I can pay this episode. It manages to wrap up a series that has been playing out its storylines for the past five and half seasons. It does a fairly good job of resolving many loose ends. It doesn't go back and resolve story ideas from some of the first seasons, but I'll forgive them at this point.

GRIMM has been building to a huge showdown, an ultimate battle for the world as we know it. Or actually the world GRIMM has built, which, let's be clear, is not the same world I live in. So, they had to give us a pay off for the long build up to that. They also had to leave their audience with an ending that they would be happy with. This ending probably didn't make everyone happy, but if they'd left all our favorite characters dead, there just might have been riots in the streets.

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Episode 6:12 “Zerstörer Shrugged”

Story by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf

Directed by Aaron Lipstadt

This is the only episode in which the writer's credit has been listed as "story by" rather than "written by", which may or may not be significant, but it's odd enough for us to notice.

We've seen these characters go through a lot. We've seen them take new lovers, change lovers, have babies, lose loved ones and learn so much along the way. Will you follow these actors on their new adventures or is it the characters they portrayed that are of interest to you? Either way, we'd like to hear from you and find out what brought you to Grimm and why you've become a fan. Send us a note: [email protected]

I think the title comes from the nonchalant manner in which our antagonist, the Zerstörer killed most everyone in his path. He didn't kill all the drunks under the bridge, and I don't know why he bothered to kill the one. The guy wasn't a threat. He could have just turned and kept on walking. Or he could have killed all of them with one wave of his staff, but he didn't do any of those things. Instead, he killed just one of them. Was it to learn another snippet of our language? Was it to prove to us how deadly he was? Was it to make sure he was easy to find by following the trail of dead bodies he left behind?

And wow! The end of this episode was painful...

Read the full recap here: http://wp.me/p5dbzK-hBY

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Episode 6:11 “Where the Wild Things Were”

Written by Brenna Kouf

Directed by Terrence O'Hara

Eve (Elizabeth Tulloch) gets in trouble when she steps through the mirror. But it Diana doesn't look like she'll follow. In fact, most of the main characters are being uncharacteristically pragmatic. How odd that now, with the last couple of episodes to go, they are finally being sensible.

Teresa Wickersham had a good theory about why the episode is called "Where the Wild Things Were". She thinks maybe when they stepped through the mirror they actually went back in time. Anyone have a good theory they'd like to share on why the Wesen are always woged in "the other place"? Perhaps they are primitive Wesen and woging at will was an evolutionary aspect of Wesen. The concern for Eve is that she will woge and be stuck in her Hexenbiest form.

Unfortunately Nick is still a bland character.

Read the full review here: http://wp.me/p5dbzK-hB6

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Episode 6:10 “Blood Magic”

Written by Thomas Ian Griffith

Directed by Janice Cooke

Folks, the end is getting close. This is episode ten. That means only three more are left. Are you planning your watch parties for March 31st? I'd love to hear what fans are planning for the final episode. It would also be fun to see your party pics.

Our A storyline is the police case. It centers around the question about what happens when a Wesen suffers from dementia. In this case, it has deadly consequences. We have two different senior Wesen, both suffering severe dementia. One resides in a long term care facility and the other is still at home. Mr. Stanton resides at home. His wife has been trying to manage his symptoms by herself. She's not very effective in her goal. He goes wandering off on two separate occasions and kills two people. Not only does he kill them, but he kills them with speed, strength and ferocity that doesn't seem remotely plausible for this older gentleman.

The B storyline is all about Eve. And yes, she's earned the name Eve once again. Her hair is tightly back on her head. She can woge at will and she has a very Hexeniest oriented goal.

Full review here: http://wp.me/p5dbzK-hwZ

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Episode 609 “Tree People”

Written by Brenna Kouf

Directed by Jim Kouf

Seems the literary reference was dropped for this week. Unless we missed something, which is very possible.

There are other stories that have walking trees. I thought of J.R.R. Tolkien's Ents. And of course we've recently seen Groot on screen. But this didn't really remind me of any of those references. There are two different tree things. One that catches people that have sinned against nature and then sacrifices them to a large tree thing that, absorbs them. I think. Our Grimm team tries to stop this ritual killing. I don't think they were successful. The last shot in that story seems to say the forest protector will live to venge another day.

Adalind (Claire Coffee) is back this week. She didn't have a big role in this week's story, but she was back. As was most of the gang, the noticeable exception was Trubel (Jacqueline Toboni). Where oh where did HW send her off to? There are only four episodes left. Can we please have her back?

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Episode 609 “Tree People”

Written by Brenna Kouf

Directed by Jim Kouf

[recap by Maia Ades]

Seems the literary reference was dropped for this week. Unless I missed something by a famous author that I'm unfamiliar with. Which is very possible. If I missed it, please help enlighten me.

There are other stories that have walking trees. I thought of J.R.R. Tolkien's Ents. And of course we've recently seen Groot on screen. But this didn't really remind me of any of those references. There are two different tree things. One that catches people that have sinned against nature and then sacrifices them to a large tree thing that, absorbs them. I think. Our Grimm team tries to stop this ritual killing. I don't think they were successful. The last shot in that story seems to say the forest protector will live to venge another day.

Read more here: http://wp.me/p5dbzK-hr2

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Episode 608 “The Son Also Rises”

Written by Todd Milliner and Nick Peet

Directed by Peter Werner

This episode didn't do a lot to further the main characters' stories. It did give us a rather fun police case, an interesting dream sequence, and a bunch of flashbacks.

Last week the theme was Shakespeare. If you missed it, most of the story was based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Our main characters drank spiked sparkling wine and each fell wildly in love with the wrong partner. This week it was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Debatable whether you can call it the Wesen of the week since the creature was created by scientists who had no idea the body parts they used came from different types of Wesen. When the poor creature woged he was quite a sight to behold.

Short version of the episode, at least six months ago there was a car wreck that killed a scientist's son. Since that time, Shelley the father of the son, got three of his colleagues to work with him to resurrect his son. Now they've created this hodgepodge of a body with various kinds of Wesen parts.

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Episode 607 “Blind Love”

Written by Sean Calder

Directed by Aaron Lipstadt

This one was primarily about fun. Hopefully the cast had at least as much fun working on this as we had watching it.

We had two story-lines this week. The bulk of the episode was about Monroe's (Silas Weir Mitchell) birthday weekend. The antagonist in this story-line was the disgruntled son of someone Nick (David Giuntoli) arrested seven years ago, conveniently, before Nick became a Grimm. The second story-line revolved around Diana (Hannah R. Lloyd) and Renard (Sasha Roiz).

Remember how Grossante was none to pleased that Renard reneged on his promise to name Grossante as his successor? Ya, well this week he tried to collect on the broken promise. His brilliant plan was to kidnap Diana. He had no idea what he was getting into when he took that girl. He ended up being her play thing. It was not pretty. On the upside, Diana had a delightful play date.

Read the whole review here: http://wp.me/p5dbzK-heO

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Episode 606 “Breakfast In Bed”

Written by Kyle Mc Vey

Directed by Julie Herlocker

Do you feel like GRIMM is bringing their story to a close? How do you feel about more police cases being introduced? Personally, I have mixed feelings. I see the ground work being laid for a grand finale. And it looks like the very final episode will be to tie up lose ends. I guess my biggest question is how many lose ends will there be and will they be able to do that in one episode.

For the second week in a row there's a surprise at the end of the episode. Maia was especially fond of the hungry, hungry hippo last week, but didn't get the joke in this one. Teresa knew what was up, though. She caught that the last name of the man at the end of the hall was Herring. And when he woged at the end, what was he... a red Herring. Yes, very clever GRIMM folks. These are the jokes. We're here till March 31, when the final episode airs.

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Episode 605 “The Seven Year Itch”

Written by Jeff Miller

Directed by Lee Rose

[recap by Maia Ades]

The Grimm count down continues. This is turning out to be a strong half season. It's an odd feeling knowing these are the last episodes of a show I've been following and writing about from the first episode to the last.

It seems that, at least for now, the Wesen of the week is back. This week's monster was a cicada. Full disclosure: I'm not fond of cicadas. I don't mind them in the trees making their repetitive drone. But get one too close to me and I'm apt to behave more like a middle school girl rather than an experienced adult. I've been working on this phobia for years. I think I'm making progress. However, seeing a man size cicada did kinda creep me out. There were parts of this episode that were hard for me to watch. I won't lie.

Did anyone else wonder if there is another version of this Wesen that emerges every seventeen years? Different kinds of cicadas have different lengths of time that they remain underground. There are over 190 varieties of cicadas just in North America.

This episode also furthered our main characters' stories. It didn't give us many answers, but I think those will come.