Watch Grimm - Beeware Online S01E03

Beeware What brings me to Grimm ? I've been impressed by the depth of storytelling that makes this more than a supernatural monster of the week series. I was expecting weird and creepy, and it's certainly that. I was expecting a "Law and Order" kind of component, and it's got that, too. Merging these two components is still a work in progress for Grimm, although after three episodes they are making progress in establishing these two very different worlds. I had placed this series firmly in the "dark but amusing entertainment" category, and so far it's held up well.After "BeeWare," I have a sneaking suspicion I may have underestimated this series. This dark "Criminal Minds meets fairy tale" premise may actually be a disguise for something far more devious a show that makes you think.

A pretty young woman gets on a bus. A flashmob erupts, dancing to " YMCA " of all things. The mob gets off at the next stop... and the woman is dead. She appears to have died from severe anaphylaxis her head is grotesquely swollen and eyes bulgy. Coroner confirms the death, but it is definitely a homicide. There is an enormous puncture wound behind her ear, and she has at least 50mg of apitoxin (bee venom) in her system. A typical bee sting carries less than .1mg.

Nick (David Giuntoli) had to make a decision about whether he was a Grimm first, or a police officer first, in life. He decided to go with what was safe, and he made what was obviously not the best decision in killing off the person trying to help save his life. Oopsies. Evil Adalind was saved, and not without a smirk, either!

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 [fbcomments] Grimm S01E03 - Beeware Speaking of Nick, since he has this book with all of the pictures and details... and okay, it's pretty big and he doesn't have photographic memory... shouldn't he still take some time to try to learn about it more? Going to it on a case by case basis isn't super clever. Neither is leaving it locked in a trailer that anyone could break into -- just sayin'. The book itself is really cool, though. Kudos to the artist(s) involved there.

There are still a number of glaring problems going on here. Most important is that Aunt Marie has disappeared without a trace. Yes, she died, so physically she can't be there, but the emotional weight of her death is completely absent from anything Nick does. Marie didn't die in a peaceful manner. As a former "librarian," she only succumbed after three failed assassination attempts -- two of them while she's in a hospital bed clinging to life. Nick isn't affected in any way by those events until the final moments of tonight's episode, with one measly flashback to Marie's directive to "hunt down the bad ones like your ancestors." Ignoring the death of the woman who raised Nick entirely is the biggest drawback to a nicely plotted episode, but it isn't the only one. The issue of Aunt Marie's trailer is also pretty ridiculous. It's full of every bit of knowledge Nick needs, but still there's no explanation as to why anything other than the book is necessary to a cop. The very basic questions of "Why here? Why now?" have always been brushed under a rug in favor of the crime plots that wrap up easily within the episode. I hate to keep making the Buffy comparison, but without the same type of Hellmouth underlying reason for this action to take place at this time in Portland, a lack of explanation will continue to hold Grimm back.

Now the goal for detectives Burckhardt and Griffen is to protect the third potential victim, attorney Analind Schade. Analind is also a hexenbeast, the one who tried to kill Aunt Marie with an injection and got Nick instead? The one who is somehow in cahoots with Captain Renard? Yeah, that one. Nick's not happy, but it's his job to protect her. I'd really love to push the puns here, and say that they set up a STING operation in order to catch the bee assassins, but I won't. Moving on, then.

With help from his confidant, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell, "Prison Break"), a reformed Grimm creature himself, Nick must navigate through the forces of a larger-than-life mythology, facing off with Hexenbiests, Blutbads and all manner of ancient evils, including royal lines dating back to the original profilers themselves, The Grimm Brothers. Reggie Lee ("Persons Unknown") and Sasha Roiz ("Caprica") also star. YMCA [l]