it feels like grimm went too dark last season and never recovered. this show doesnt feel the same as it did in the early seasons

That’s very true, but also somewhat to be expected, I think.

A show can’t just play the same note over and over, season after season. I mean, a police procedural can I guess, but even they tend to feature character development and overarching plots that change the show’s tone over time…and Grimm has never been a traditional police procedural.

The characters have grown and changed over the course of six seasons. More of the world has been revealed, and relationships have changed and changed again. Some things have gotten complicated. The show did go pretty dark last season, but the overall tone has always been, well…grim. Everything from the lighting to the music to the subject matter of the show has reinforced that from the beginning.

Still…I actually think this season feels more like the first season than anything else has. I felt seasons 2-4 were really soap opera-esque at times, and as much as I usually love the Grimm writers, some of the lines they wrote in seasons 3-4 couldn’t be pulled off by even this stellar cast of actors (I cringe every single time I watch Rosalee’s “she’s a freakin’ HEXENBIEST” outburst in season 4, like wow that was so over-the-top and forced and weird).

So yeah…Grimm has changed a lot. But in a way it’s also gone back to its roots this season, and I’m glad. It’s been one hell of a ride and I love seeing the writers pay tribute to that.