Grimm

Grimm

Episode 11: Tarantella

Mini-Review

By: Carlos Uribe

Grimm is a show about a guy who hunts fairy tale monsters.

Spoilers Ahoy!

This week Amy Acker guest stars as a black widow! She's a spider-lady that seduces men and after sex kills them. She doesn't enjoy killing them, at least not as much as the sex, but she does it because she has a biological imperative to do so. She also kills because she has a rapid aging disease that can only be held back by the deaths of men. She's also a loving a moving mother and wife. While she is ruthless, she is also sympathetic. This series, unlike a Gifted Man, knows how to make a sympathetic villain of the week. It's up to Nick to stop her and he eventually does. He also spends the episode getting the creatures that have been watching his house to stop. He even meets a new creature, a spider-creature like Amy Acker but who refuses to kill lives, that aids him on his quest.

This was a good, creepy episode. It had a good sympathetic villain. What I like about this show is how it shows that even though these are monsters who take human lives, they have families and live like the rest of us. It humanizes them in a good way. It's been explained before that a Grimm has always been the story told to frighten young monster children into behaving. It gets brought back up this episode. It's details like this that make Grimm's universe feel so real. I'm also really loving Nick being a good, other than a clueless, Grimm.