Okay so first of all, thank you for this!
I haven’t been as vigilant as I’d like about keeping up with Grimm news since the show ended, so your ask was the first I had heard that they were moving forward with anything spin-offy!
As for your worries, a few things:
- Iron Fist is only the most recent thing Melissa Glenn has worked on. She’s also worked on Leverage, Falling Skies, Zoo, Revolution, Hawaii Five-0, and Beauty and the Beast.
- At least some of those are damn good shows with excellent writing, characters, and production values.
- Everyone writes on something crappy at some point in their career, so take heart from that.
- Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, who were the executive producers of Grimm, will be executive producers on the spin-off as well.
- David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, also from Grimm, will be consulting producers on the spin-off.
- That means all of the folks responsible for the continuity and “big M mythology” of the original series will be back to make sure it’s true to the world we know and love.
- Some characters from the original will make appearances in the spin-off.
- The spin-off’s lead character will reportedly be a female Grimm.
- New mysteries! Expanded mythology! New Grimm content, okay. New. Grimm. Content. Our little show that could is all grown up and becoming a ‘verse!
That’s all of the official stuff. Now here are a few wishful things a spin-off could mean:
- Answers to questions that the original series never answered, like how Grimm powers get activated, how magic works, whether Kelly has powers, whatever happened to Roddy Geiger, etc.
- More of Trubel, Bud, and others we never got to see enough of.
- A chance for the writers to include better representation for minorities than they had last time around.
- More backstory and mythology about the Grimms and the Wesen world.
- A chance to see what happened with the Royals, the Resistance, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Wesen Council after Black Claw decimated them and then was itself decimated.
- A chance to address some of the wtf-y stuff they never got to, like ghosts, gods, etc.
- More info about what happens to our faves during that 20-year gap between the end of Nick’s story and the trailer epilogue.
- A chance to meet the triplets and learn their names.
- A chance to see teenage Kelly and Diana bickering like siblings do (levitate him, Di!).
- Executive producers who’ve (hopefully) learned from the mistakes they made in seasons 4-5.
- If we’re very, very lucky…more shirtless rage.
And if that’s not enough to get you excited, consider this: this show is only in the very early stages of development. A lot of things can happen to trap a show indefinitely in development hell. So…it may never happen.
But I hope it does. Because honestly, the news that Grimm was getting a spin-off made my entire week.
Sources: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/grimm-spinoff-nbc-1202981306/
https://deadline.com/2018/10/grimm-spinoff-female-lead-nbc-from-melissa-glenn-hazy-mills-1202483529/
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