When I think about everything I loved about the show, it’s ALL there in season 3. The team dynamic, the batshit storylines with twists I could never see coming, the endlessly inventive WotW plots that never got old. Season 3 is the peak of all of that for me. It’s when Team Grimm is at their best, IMO. It’s when Juliette is finay part of the team, too, which made me so happy to watch.
But also season 3 was just one of the best with the tightest writing, IMO. It started with the dial turned up to 11 and never slowed down. Every episode was great on its own and it all built steadily to a shocking finale that absolutely flattened the fandom emotionally. The world-building and the way all of the characters were delved into was incredible.
This is the season that gave us zombie!Nick and all his after-effects, Krampus, El Cucuy, the Aswang, the Wesen Council, Jake and Elly, Decapitare. This is the season that gave us Madalind, and Diana. That heart-wrenching moment for Adalind in front of Portland PD. Viktor, aka still the scariest of the royals IMO. Monrosalee wedding. This season had literally everything but telling Wu the truth, and it still planted the seeds for that.
Sometimes I feel like the latter seasons didn’t fully realize the potential of everything set up in season 3. But mostly I’m just glad we have it, because it was an incredible season.
Season 4 probably. If I’m not mistaken, this the season where the Grimm Gang grows. Nick brings in more of his human friends into the know, especially Wu.
Prior to this episode, the show had all the Wesen as primarily loners with a few family units. While one got the sense of a wider community from discussions from Monroe & Rosalee, this episode firmly established that Wesen were a culture unto their own. For me, this turns Grimm from a police procedural with supernatural elements into something completely unique.
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I love Monroe’s taste in art and literature, and I love the tension that exists between his intellectual tastes and his inherently wild nature. His internal make-up may be complicated, but his loyalties, love and beliefs are simple, clear and unfailing.
(Second and third favorites go to Nick and Rosalee, although I love them all!)
This is SO hard, but my heart has to go with S1 E6: The Three Bad Wolves. While I love the sophistication of the later episodes, I have a fondness for the early days of Nick learning this whole new world. I also love a Monroe-centric episode, and his early time with Hap is hilarious. But Angelina (Jaime Ray Newman) is Grimm at its best, giving women its smartest, most powerful roles.
Runners up: I mean, omg, all of them (except for The Thing with Feathers, Kiss of the Muse and Bad Moon Rising)? But if I have to choose, maybe:
S2 E2: The Kiss – Kelly kills Katherine (another spectacular older female character) in spectacular fashion
S2 E22: Goodnight, Sweet Grimm – Oh, love me some Papa Ghede!
S1 E22: Woman in Black – the introduction of Kelly Burkhardt!
S1 E3: Beeware – the culture of the Mellifers was fascinating
S1 E21: Big Feet – for Monroe’s “Larry?”
S1 E5: Danse Macabre – I love Roddy!
S3 E19: Nobody Knows the Trubel I’ve Seen – introduction of Trubel!
The first one the came to my mind was Once We Were Gods (Season 3, Episode 15.)
We get so many good interactions this episode!!! My favourites have to be the scene between Alexander and Nick in the car, and the one between Adalind and Meisner in the cabin.
(Other episodes that come close are The Bottle Imp, Where The Wild Things Were, Breakfast in Bed and Stories we Tell our Young.)
Monroe has been my favourite character since I started the show (his character was 50% of the pitch my mother used to get me – a person who HATES gore – to sit down on the couch and watch episode 3. Yeah I watched s1 out of order. Bite me.) I really really vibe with Monroe (I’m autistic and I think he is to), and I am always a fan of what he does.
Monroe has been my favourite character since I started the show (his character was 50% of the pitch my mother used to get me – a person who HATES gore – to sit down on the couch and watch episode 3. Yeah I watched s1 out of order. Bite me.) I really really vibe with Monroe (I’m autistic and I think he is to), and I am always a fan of what he does.
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