Grimm: The Seven Year Itch
February 4, 2017 4:36 AM - Season 6, Episode 5 - Subscribe
A new Wesen with a deadly hungry is unearthed after lying dormant for seven years. Meanwhile, Capt. Renard continues to be haunted by a ghost from his past; Monroe and Rosalee seek a doctor's opinion on whether Diana's premonition is true; and an extremely weak Eve is found in the tunnels by Adalind.
"When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch."Dr. Brubaker, The Seven Year Itch
Den of Geek review - Cicadas only come around every so often, and they're the focus of Grimm Season 6 Episode 5.
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AV Club recap - Grimm goes on a bug hunt, but doesn’t find much else of interest
"When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch."Dr. Brubaker, The Seven Year Itch
Den of Geek review - Cicadas only come around every so often, and they're the focus of Grimm Season 6 Episode 5.
Tell-Tale TV review
AV Club recap - Grimm goes on a bug hunt, but doesn’t find much else of interest
I'm just miserable that the show's coming to an end. We fell off the wagon a couple weeks back and have been catching up, so last night we watched last week's episode and this one, and the show is just so damn much fun all the time. It doesn't matter how sillyass the ideas are, so long as the characters are solid.
As a son of the Mississippi Valley, I started bouncing on the couch and giggling like a maniac when I saw the MOTW was gonna be a cicada. Then, at the climax, Mrs. Spatula mused "I wish just once the MOTW's victim would turn out to be Wesen," and then bang decapitation by hippo. (And hey, she saved 'em; but she could have thanked them, too - they bought her enough time to come back to her senses.)
The daddy-daughter stuff between Roiz and Hannah Loyd just slays me. I realize this was the previous episode, but the conversation while they were making dinner, about how "men shouldn't hurt mommies" and "Nick would be sorry" was so wonderful because it's completely double-edged - Renard pushing the notion that Nick might hurt Adalind would not be out of place in any TV show, but what makes it great is that while Diana's agreeing, she has this look on her face like "Oh, the mortal human is using words again - why does he bother when I can see his thoughts swimming around in his glass aquarium brain?"
I don't feel a particular need to choose between Royals/Black Claw/Hadrian's Wall and the MOTW format, I feel like each is nice to have. Something long-term that weaves the characters around each other, and then every week it also turns out that yet another aspect of the world (Mexican wrestling, lycanthropy as a Wesen seizure disorder, of course Monrosalee are having a litter...) is just another obvious consequence of the reality of the Wesen.
*I'm still convinced she read spoilers
posted by Rat Spatula at 8:51 AM on February 4, 2017
As a son of the Mississippi Valley, I started bouncing on the couch and giggling like a maniac when I saw the MOTW was gonna be a cicada. Then, at the climax, Mrs. Spatula mused "I wish just once the MOTW's victim would turn out to be Wesen," and then bang decapitation by hippo. (And hey, she saved 'em; but she could have thanked them, too - they bought her enough time to come back to her senses.)
The daddy-daughter stuff between Roiz and Hannah Loyd just slays me. I realize this was the previous episode, but the conversation while they were making dinner, about how "men shouldn't hurt mommies" and "Nick would be sorry" was so wonderful because it's completely double-edged - Renard pushing the notion that Nick might hurt Adalind would not be out of place in any TV show, but what makes it great is that while Diana's agreeing, she has this look on her face like "Oh, the mortal human is using words again - why does he bother when I can see his thoughts swimming around in his glass aquarium brain?"
I don't feel a particular need to choose between Royals/Black Claw/Hadrian's Wall and the MOTW format, I feel like each is nice to have. Something long-term that weaves the characters around each other, and then every week it also turns out that yet another aspect of the world (Mexican wrestling, lycanthropy as a Wesen seizure disorder, of course Monrosalee are having a litter...) is just another obvious consequence of the reality of the Wesen.
*I'm still convinced she read spoilers
posted by Rat Spatula at 8:51 AM on February 4, 2017
Then, at the climax, Mrs. Spatula mused "I wish just once the MOTW's victim would turn out to be Wesen," and then bang decapitation by hippo.
They have pulled the surprise-wesen-turnabout at least once before, way back in S1 "Tarantella" with Amy Acker, but that was more of a "bet you thought this snake-wesen rapist was the MOTW, but, surprise, it's gonna be spider-lady-wesen" teaser twist. This was more fun though.
posted by oh yeah! at 11:43 AM on February 4, 2017
They have pulled the surprise-wesen-turnabout at least once before, way back in S1 "Tarantella" with Amy Acker, but that was more of a "bet you thought this snake-wesen rapist was the MOTW, but, surprise, it's gonna be spider-lady-wesen" teaser twist. This was more fun though.
posted by oh yeah! at 11:43 AM on February 4, 2017
Oh, and the picture of el Cuegle in their edition of My First Big Golden Book of Wesen was a knock-off of Saturn Devouring His Son -- have they been doing that all along and they finally did a painting i recognized?
posted by Rat Spatula at 9:13 PM on February 4, 2017
posted by Rat Spatula at 9:13 PM on February 4, 2017
Ha, that was fun. But a hippo? That's a bit...insensitive.
My wife chuckled and pointed out that they get Renard to take his clothes off an awful lot. Not that she's complaining.
I watched it late and deleted it before I realized I missed something, when Renard woke up, was it implying the pawn shop was empty the whole time and he hallucinated the entire scene? Was he wearing his rings again at the end?
posted by beowulf573 at 7:11 AM on February 6, 2017
My wife chuckled and pointed out that they get Renard to take his clothes off an awful lot. Not that she's complaining.
I watched it late and deleted it before I realized I missed something, when Renard woke up, was it implying the pawn shop was empty the whole time and he hallucinated the entire scene? Was he wearing his rings again at the end?
posted by beowulf573 at 7:11 AM on February 6, 2017
I was confused by the empty store precisely because Renard's rings were still gone.
My wife chuckled and pointed out that they get Renard to take his clothes off an awful lot. Not that she's complaining.
At some point they worked a shirtless-Renard clip into the opening credits, so technically every Friday is shirtless Friday.
posted by oh yeah! at 7:20 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
My wife chuckled and pointed out that they get Renard to take his clothes off an awful lot. Not that she's complaining.
At some point they worked a shirtless-Renard clip into the opening credits, so technically every Friday is shirtless Friday.
posted by oh yeah! at 7:20 AM on February 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Thanks, I remember him looking at his hands, but in the morning realized I couldn't remember if the rings were there or not.
posted by beowulf573 at 8:58 AM on February 6, 2017
posted by beowulf573 at 8:58 AM on February 6, 2017
Diana continues to be killing it with the creepy awesome. I loved Adalind's "uh, how are you going to talk to the dead guy?" face.
Not too interested in the cicada plot, though.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:57 PM on February 6, 2017
Not too interested in the cicada plot, though.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:57 PM on February 6, 2017
Oh yeah, and Rosalee is having a litter of wolf-foxes. Yup.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:58 PM on February 6, 2017
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:58 PM on February 6, 2017
I was so giddy when Hippo-woman bit his head off. I suspect that bar might have been full of Wesen, and Stillman, having only coming around once a day every 7 years, didn't realize the shift of culture. The black guy he killed was probably Wesen too, but he got in a fatal sneak attack.
posted by numaner at 8:22 AM on February 7, 2017
posted by numaner at 8:22 AM on February 7, 2017
Ha, that was fun. But a hippo? That's a bit...insensitive.
The whole thing with her was a little ick. They could have wrote her as just another single looking for love (or an evening's enjoyment) but instead she speaks and is played as the so-grateful larger women excited to have this handsome dude interested in her. I understand the temptation to play the possible victim as vulnerable but ugh, people of every shape and size can have confidence. The fact she she's hippovesen would even have made it make more sense for her to be comfortable with herself.
I did like that I felt there was some ambiguity about whether she was ever even in any danger. She might have been vulnerable if surprised but she might never have had any chance of being overpowered and used as food.
posted by phearlez at 12:54 PM on February 7, 2017
The whole thing with her was a little ick. They could have wrote her as just another single looking for love (or an evening's enjoyment) but instead she speaks and is played as the so-grateful larger women excited to have this handsome dude interested in her. I understand the temptation to play the possible victim as vulnerable but ugh, people of every shape and size can have confidence. The fact she she's hippovesen would even have made it make more sense for her to be comfortable with herself.
I did like that I felt there was some ambiguity about whether she was ever even in any danger. She might have been vulnerable if surprised but she might never have had any chance of being overpowered and used as food.
posted by phearlez at 12:54 PM on February 7, 2017
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posted by oh yeah! at 5:03 AM on February 4, 2017