Grimm (TV Series)
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| Grimm | ||
| Genre | Occult detective fiction Police procedural Horror Supernatural drama | |
| Created by | Stephen Carpenter Jim Kouf David Greenwalt | |
| Based on | Grimm's Fairy Tales, by the Brothers Grimm | |
| Starring | David Giuntoli Russell Hornsby Bitsie Tulloch Jacqueline Toboni Silas Weir Mitchell Sasha Roiz Reggie Lee Bree Turner Claire Coffee | |
| Composer(s) | Richard Marvin | |
| Country of origin | United States | |
| Original language(s) | English | |
| No. of seasons | 6 | |
| No. of episodes | 123 (list of episodes) | |
| Production | ||
| Executive producer(s) | Norberto Barba Jim Kouf David Greenwalt Sean Hayes Todd Milliner | |
| Producers | Steve Oster Lynn Kouf Julie Herlocker Bruce Carter Stephen Welke (associate prod.) | |
| Production locations | Portland, Oregon and the surrounding metropolitan area | |
| Cinematography | Clark Mathis Eliot Rockett Ross Berryman | |
| Editors | Chris G. Willingham George Pilkinton | |
| Camera setup | Single-camera | |
| Running time | 43 minutes | |
| Production company(s) | Universal Television GK Productions Hazy Mills Productions Open 4 Business Productions | |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution | |
| Release | ||
| Original network | NBC | |
| Picture format | ||
| Original release | October 28, 2011 – March 31, 2017 | |
Grimm is an American fantasy police procedural drama television series created by Stephen Carpenter and Jim Kouf & David Greenwalt and produced by Universal Television for NBC. The series aired from October 28, 2011, to March 31, 2017, for 123 episodes, over six seasons. The series' narrative follows Portland homicide detective Nicholas Burkhardt (played by David Giuntoli), who discovers he is a Grimm, the latest in a line of guardians who is sworn to keep the balance between humanity and mythological creatures, known as Wesen. The series features a supporting cast with Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Bree Turner, and Claire Coffee.
Grimm was originally developed for CBS, but did not end up moving forward due to the 2007–08 writers' strike. In January 2011, the series moved to NBC. It has been described as "a cop drama—with a twist ... a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales exist", though the stories and characters inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources. The series initially garnered mixed reviews from critics, though reception grew more favorable throughout the series' run. The sixth and final season of Grimm premiered on January 6, 2017, and concluded on March 31, 2017.
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[edit] Synopsis
Homicide investigator Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Department learns he is descended from a line of guardians known as Grimms, charged with keeping balance between humanity and the Template:Lang, or mythological creatures of the world (Template:Lang is the German word for being or creature). Throughout the series, he must battle against an assortment of dangerous creatures with help from his Template:Lang friend, Monroe, and his partner, Detective Hank Griffin.
Black Claw and Hadrian's Wall (HW) are two opposing groups repeatedly mentioned in the series where many characters belong to these creature (wesen) groups.
Opening: "There once was a man who lived a life so strange, it had to be true. Only he could see what no one else can—the darkness inside, the real monster within, and he's the one who must stop them. This is his calling. This is his duty. This is the life of a Grimm."
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- Main article: List of Grimm characters
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- David Giuntoli as Detective Nicholas "Nick" Burkhardt, the eponymous Grimm, descended from a line of hunters who fight supernatural forces. He temporarily loses his Grimm power after the events of the season 3 finale, but regains them in the season 4 episode "Highway of Tears".
- Russell Hornsby as Detective Hank Griffin, Nick's Homicide partner, who is not initially aware that Nick is a Grimm. After learning the truth, he assists Nick in hunting rogue Wesen.
- Bitsie Tulloch as Nick's girlfriend Juliette Silverton (seasons 1 to 4), a veterinarian, and as Eve (seasons 5 and 6).
- Juliette is initially unaware of Nick's duties as a Grimm. He tells her in the finale of season 1, but by season 2, a magically induced amnesia has removed Nick from her memory altogether. She eventually regains her memories and learns the truth of Nick's abilities. In season 4, a series of events and dangerous spells results in Juliette becoming an exceptionally powerful Hexenbiest. Her plans for revenge culminate in the death of Nick's mother, and in the season 4 finale she is shot by Trubel with a crossbow bolt as she is about to kill Nick.
- Eve is a mysterious woman who has all of Juliette's memories and powers but none of her emotional attachments. In season 6, her powers are temporarily suppressed and her ability to feel emotions begins to return after Nick heals her with the stick.
- Silas Weir Mitchell as Monroe, a wolflike Wesen called a Blutbad, who is Nick's direct source of insight and information into the supernatural community. He also helps Nick make contact with creatures that would normally avoid dealing with a Grimm. Eventually, he falls in love with and marries Rosalee, a Fuchsbau, despite opposition to their mixed marriage from a Wesen purity cult. They eventually have triplets together.
- Sasha Roiz as Captain Sean Renard, Nick's adept and efficient superior. Renard is a Zauberbiest, a mix of witch-Wesen and beast-Wesen and of royal lineage. His mother, Elizabeth (Louise Lombard), is a Hexenbiest and was mistress to his father, the king of Austria. He is also the father of Hexenbiest Adalind Schade's daughter, Diana. In season 5, he joins the pro-Wesen organization Black Claw, which seeks to put Wesen in positions of power over humans, and is elected mayor. In season 6, he resigns and returns to being Chief of Police.
- Reggie Lee as police Sergeant Drew Wu, who works with Nick and Hank, and tends to do "grunt work" for them, running down facts and information. Nick is eventually forced to tell him about the Wesen world after his involvement in numerous Wesen murder cases. In season 5, he is infected with Lycanthropia, gaining the ability to transform ("woge") into a Neanderthal-like version of a Blutbad.
- Bree Turner as Rosalee Calvert (recurring season 1; regular seasons 2 to 6), a foxlike Fuchsbau who takes over her brother's Wesen spice shop after he is murdered. She assists Nick and Monroe by providing information and preparing remedies for supernatural problems. She and Monroe marry in the season 3 finale and she reveals she is pregnant in the season 5 finale.
- Claire Coffee as Adalind Schade (recurring seasons 1 and 2 (part); regular seasons 2 (part) to 6), a witch-like Wesen called a Hexenbiest, who works for Renard. She loses her powers after ingesting Nick's blood. Seeking revenge, she poisons Juliette and colludes with Renard's half-brother, Eric, sleeping with both of them trying to conceive a royal baby. Eventually, she regains her powers through agonizing rituals while pregnant. With Sean she has a daughter, Diana Schade-Renard, who has unique powers. Later, she gives birth to a second child, a boy she names Kelly (after Kelly Burkhardt, Nick's mother). The boy's father is revealed to be Nick, with whom she had sex during a complex ritual to take his powers that involved her disguising herself as Juliette. After Juliette is transformed into Eve, Adalind moves in with Nick to care for Kelly. She and Nick eventually start a relationship.
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- Danny Bruno as Bud Wurstner, a beaver-like Wesen known as an Eisbiber who works as a handyman in the Portland area. Bud first learned of Nick's status as a Grimm after nervously woging while fixing his and Juliette's fridge. Bud and Nick later became friends with Nick when Nick promised not to do what any other Grimm would have done, cutting off the Wesen's head. Bud repeatedly turns to Nick when tensions rise within the Wesen community and the two often help each other throughout the series.
- Jacqueline Toboni as Trubel, an orphaned Grimm who travels through the United States before eventually ending up in Portland. Trubel is introduced in the season 3 episode "Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen" when she becomes the prime suspect in a homicide when she meets Nick who tells her what a Grimm is and agrees to take her in as his protégée. Trubel later joins Hadrian's Wall under Meisner until Meisner and the rest of the resistance are killed by the Black Claw in the season 5 finale "Set Up".
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Nick's mother, Kelly Burkhardt. Originally thought to be dead by everyone, including Nick after she reportedly died in a car accident, Kelly comes to Portland when the Wesen who tried to kill her attempt to seize three powerful coins from Nick. Kelly then takes to destroy the coins back to Greece. After joining Hadrian's Wall, Kelly helps Adalind Schade and Meisner escape the royals by bringing Adalind back to Portland. She later takes Adalind's daughter away from Portland for safekeeping. Kelly dies in season 4's penultimate episode "The Headache" defending Nick's house from an onslaught of Verrat agents.
- Damien Puckler as Martin Meisner, a human leader within the resistance group Hadrian's Wall and former friend of Sean Renard. Originally serving as a European operative for Hadrian's Wall, Meisner was tasked with protecting the pregnant Adalind Schade and getting her out of Europe. Meisner eventually becomes the leader of Hadrian's Wall's operations in Portland, and recruits both Eve and Trubel into the organization. Meisner is killed in the season 5 finale after Sean Renard leads Conrad Bonaparte and Black Claw to the Hadrian's Wall base, where the Wesen kill all those inside. Renard then shoots his former friend in the head to end his suffering at the hand of the Zauberbiest Bonaparte. Following his death, Meisner appears as a manifestation of Captain Renard's guilt for betraying his friends, but the manifestation saves Renard's life by warning him of an ambush and obscuring the vision of one of the ambushers proving to be more than a maifestation.
[edit] Episodes
- Main article: List of Grimm episodes
Many of the episodes are loosely based on stories published by the Brothers Grimm, albeit with considerable artistic license taken. For example, the pilot centered around a wolf-man who preyed on women who wore red. Other episodes are based on different sources, including fables and legends, not published by the Brothers Grimm.
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Rank | Average viewership (in millions) | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||||
| 1 | 22 | October 28, 2011 | May 18, 2012 | 89 | 6.36 | |
| 2 | 22 | August 13, 2012 | May 21, 2013 | 60 | 7.06 | |
| 3 | 22 | October 25, 2013 | May 16, 2014 | 52 | 7.97 | |
| 4 | 22 | October 24, 2014 | May 15, 2015 | 65 | 6.98 | |
| 5 | 22 | October 30, 2015 | May 20, 2016 | 76 | 5.97 | |
| 6 | 13 | January 6, 2017 | March 31, 2017 | 70 | 6.12 | |
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| Year | Association | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| 2012 | Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Stunt Coordination | Grimm (Episode: "Woman in Black") | Nominated |
| People's Choice Awards | Favorite Network TV Drama | Grimm | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Stunt Coordination For A Drama Series, Miniseries Or Movie | Matt Taylor | Nominated |
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