Tag: promos

This episode is so freaking weird!!!!!

It was definitely, as Liz said during the liveblog, one of the weirder ones, even for Grimm. And I’m pretty sure it was kind of a short break and some comic relief for us before shit gets real.

I mean, we had 6 episodes dealing with the fallout of last season’s finale, furthering the questions about the stick, and setting up some new mysteries. We have six more episodes left in the season, at least four of which have deeply concerning titles.

And then we had this episode smack in the middle that seemed like mostly filler but served–if you read between the lines–to air out and address a lot of things that hadn’t been fully dealt with yet, as well as really cement the bond between the members of Team Grimm.

Judging from that and the promo for next episode…things are about to get serious and dark. We’re in the downward slide now. I have a feeling this episode was, despite its weirdness, the brief calm before the storm.

Do you read Grimm spoilers? Like, press releases for upcoming episodes?

Hi anon, Liza here. I do occasionally do a search for Grimm press releases, promo trailers, and interviews, but I actually don’t put that much stock in what I find there, beyond a bit of fun speculation. And here’s why:

If I’ve learned anything over the last five years it’s that press releases, promos, and interviews lie. The press release will give you just the barest outline of the next episode’s details, enough to get you interested. The promos will overdramatize something, taking different snippets of scenes and putting them together out of context to make things look more dire than they really are (like when they made it look like Nick was totes going to try to kill Juliette last season the second he found out her secret).

And the Grimm writers, cast, and crew are notorious trolls when it comes to teasing things in interviews that may never happen, or shooting down ideas that are going to happen as ridiculous.

I’ve actually seen a few posts and things around tumblr expressing frustration and hurt at this practice, but really…what do people expect? That they’ll tell us the whole plot before we’ve even seen the show? No, they won’t do that. Moreover, in the actors’ case, they can’t. They probably have very strict guidelines for what they can tell us and how they can phrase certain things, and keeping to those guidelines is just part of their job.

TL’DR? Yes I do occasionally look up spoilery stuff, but I don’t put a ton of stock in it, and I try not to get too worked up until I’ve actually seen the episode.