The captain’s gotta be some kind of creature. He’s the boss of the hexenbiest and his last name is Reynard. Given some of the naming conventions of this show, it practically goes without saying.
3 guesses what kind of fairytale creature he is too.
At last! A lycanthrope I can beat in a fight!
I’m enjoying the production values more than the acting. Loved the bee guy in the interview room with the black and yellow plaid shirt and black and yellow phone. The Grimm only seems to have one expression – blank. He doesn’t seem to make eye contact or really engage with the other characters but hopefully he’ll start moving his face in the coming episodes.
The ability to see doesn’t seem terribly reliable – he also didn’t realize that the professor was a bee person.
But, yeah, I hope we find out what the deal is with the captain before they cancel this. 
He can only see when monster lose control over their human forms (though maybe as he becomes more Grimm that will change).
I enjoyed the werebees more than the werebears. And the name references continue to be fun…a hexenbiest named “Shade”, “Melissa” meaning “honey bee” (had to look that one up), a beekeeper named Spinella. I like that they’re having fun.
Melissa being the “Mellischwuler” is probably a bit confusing to speakers of German, though…
It’s the #1 new show on Friday nights. It’s getting bigger ratings than it’s lead-in, the dying Chuck. I don’t think it will get cancelled soon.
How long until Nick’s partner(s) get a clue? Both his police partner and his girlfriend, with all this weirdness happening, have to figure something’s going on.
I definitely liked this episode better than the previous. I hope they give us some more backstory on the Grimms, other than the guy just looking through those old books.
If this show is just generic monster-of-the-week, I have to assume viewership will drop off fairly quickly despite the really fine production values, because it’s gonna get very repetitious very quickly otherwise. They’ve got to give more backstory on both Grimms and Fairy Tale Creatures (hereafter FTCs), as well as pushing the arc forward, or this show is just a well-executed moody mess.
I don’t get it… help!
I did like the bee episode a lot more than the previous one, too. I will keep watching, but my one request is that they ramp up revealing the backstory/what is actually going on a wee bit faster. I had never heard of the Brother’s Grimm Queen Bee story, nice to have something a little less known (to me at least) introduced.
Re: the Bee people, surely the queen isn’t the only one that knows what is coming for the Grimm. Why can’t one of the underlings tell him what is going on or at least shoot him an email? If they are on his side and their sole raison d’etre is to communicate things, why the foul play in the police office? The suspect should have just laid out what he knew then and there. “Look, there’s a baddie coming for you, the hexenbiest are evil, we need to talk.”
Crap, I accidentally deleted this week’s episode from my DVR. I’ll have to watch it online now.
With David Greenwalt involved, I have hopes this might eventually happen. I expect the network wanted easy-to-understand, actiony episodes to suck viewers in. Of course, that really isn’t working, so…
I love the premise. I really want to like this show, but it’s losing me. I was incredulous when Hank did a B & E on the B & B. Hank claimed probable cause when Nick called him on it. There was no probable cause. I also am disbelieving that they got away with the tracking device on the car.
The captain still interests me. The bad guy kneels before him, yet he does seem to be protecting the Grimm at the same time. Blonde monster said something in an earlier episode about getting Nick on their side.
Yeah, I’m hanging in, but it could go either way.
Love the Big Good Wolf (“I had to get out of there! I was about to buy him a drink!”), and definitely want to know who/what the captain is. But, yeah, the partner breaking into the house … I don’t think so.
I was totally confused by last night’s episode. A guy who has really sexy phermones because he’s a goat-person? At this point, the good guys had absolutely no idea that he was holding women in his basement (and, btw, why was he holding women in his basement???), so why were they calling him a serial rapist? A serial-seducer, yeah, but last time I looked, that wasn’t illegal. There are a fair number of men out there who go out every night and use whatever they’ve got, whether it be wit, dance-skills, attractiveness, or even colognes supposedly containing phermones to seduce a different woman every night. Think of Barney Stinson, the Neil Patrick Harris character on How I Met Your Mother. Not illegal. Despicable, perhaps, but not illegal.
I think I’d better watch this episode again, because I definitely did not follow it. Enjoyed the Big Good Wolf, of course, but otherwise, wtf?
I just noticed the irony of having a black major character and an Asian minor character in a show set in Portland, possibly the whitest major city in America, when people always complain about the lack of diversity in shows set in NYC.
It seems weird that the woman escaped at the beginning. Obviously, she was hallucinating from the gas like Hank, but why wasn’t she under his thrall like the other women? Was the toad not strong enough? Did he not lock her into a cage fast enough?
It would be like using roofies, only more so – no informed consent if the woman is drugged to the point that she can’t make a free-will choice about whether to have sex or not.
And maybe he was caging the women till he was sure they were pregnant.
Okay, here’s my question – at the end, when they were saying they’d test the goat guy’s DNA to link him to the women in the other cities – wouldn’t he have weird DNA since he was a goat guy?
Also, the EMT who was about to succumb – wouldn’t she be safe since she was wearing surgical gloves?
The DNA question is a good one. I have no idea about that. But Monroe almost bought the guy a drink and never even touched him, so I’m not sure gloves would be protective.
The affect was airborne - if he touched you, he owned you - was the way it was put in the show. I don’t believe any covering brought you immunity.
WolfDude said he was also an apparently rare “herder” variety - so there was more to him than mere procreation.