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Grimm: “Tarantella”
Amy Acker puking with acid! Amy Acker taking her face off!
February 12, 2012 6:39 amXena
Amy Acker puking with acid! Amy Acker taking her face off! Grimm just keeps getting weirder and creepier (read - better and better). In latest episode called "Tarantella", Nick and all the other dudes were investigating Fringe-style murders of men. No mystery for us there, as the viewers got to see the whole process of the killing in the first five minutes of the episode. The murders were conducting by a spider-woman, and not the sexy kind. Well, no, still the sexy kind, just not after sex, because then she gets all spider-y and kills you.
So anyway, Nick and his partner arrived to the first crime scene, where they found a body. The dead guy, who was actually a rapist and saw that coming, was also a fighter and bit off Tarantella's finger. Nick picked it up and the finger moved! There was most certainly something weird going on and, as always, Nick went a) to read his aunt's literature and b) to consult with his tamed blutbad Monroe. For some time Nick was just going through endless notes of his aunt (I bet his only thought during that was "why the hell couldn't she digitize all that"). Finally he found some notes and scary pictures, but it was in Japanese. Thanks a lot, aunt, couldn't you at least translate your stuff?

So, anyway, Nick went for plan "b", which is Monroe, and Monroe obviously new someone actually useful. He introduced Nick to an old lady, who turned out actually to be a 26 year old Tarantella girl who aged so quickly because she had refused to kill men. Things were not looking good for our Amy-Tarantella.
Amy-Tarantella herself had a family, a husband and a daughter and was killing only three men in five years, which is not all that bad. Right? But unfortunately her and her daughters pedigree passion for "shiny things" eventually led to her discovery, as she stole a Rolex watch from her victim and gave it to her husband, and then her daughter stole it and gave it to someone at school, and then the headmaster of her school found out and called police. So, the husband, also a Tarantula, got arrested, but Amy-Tarantella had already grown a new finger (!), so she wasn't even a suspect at first. Then her fingerprints came and she was chased into a fishing net by Nick and got arrested. She started to age momentarily as she hasn't completed her feeding circle. It was a very sad scene actually, and also, I'm not sure, but it probably was the first time Nick actually arrested a creature, not shot it to death.

In a sidekick storyline Nick was being harassed by all the creatures in the neighborhood who recognized him as Grimm and Juliette continued being boring. The episode was a very descent one, although I have some comments and notes:
- I'm really confused with their mythology, mostly because it looks like yellow pages right now. Cases of the week are cool, but I wish they had a little bit more connections between each other.
- Juliette is getting killed off sooner or later and I can't wait to see that. Grimm's life has to become more darker, it's all games and fun right now.
- More Monroe. Just -- Please.
That's pretty much it, I hope you're enjoying Grimm as much as I do! From now on I will be reviewing each episode of it, next episode will air 02/24 9/8c on NBC, so bye for now!
| FIND YOUR GEEK RATING GREAT |
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Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:09 pm
Nuh, she was just in one episode. 
Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:12 pm
Is it worth checking out independent of her? No one I know watches this show.
Shark Taco
Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:13 pm
I don't know, what kind of shows do you like? I like Grimm, it's scary enough and has great dark sense of humor, it also has good procedural storylines, kinda like Supernatural, only I actually like Grimm more then Supernatural. It's pretty much a cop procedural with fantasy elements.







Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:53 pm
Amy Acker is in this? Damn, I had no idea, I may have to watch this now.

Shark Taco