Grimm: Blind Love
February 17, 2017 10:57 PM - Season 6, Episode 7 - Subscribe
A vengeful Cupido decides to re-enact "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on the cast when they go on a weekend birthday celebration. Meanwhile, Diana gets kidnapped and you can guess who ends up unhappiest of all with that.
I found this episode to be delightful. Very Shakespearean.
Hank falling in love with his own reflection...I can't decide if that was best or worst. Did enjoy Rosalee figuring it out in five minutes and pitching the guy off a cliff.
As for Diana: of course the first thing you think is, "POOR KIDNAPPER." Renard goes for his phone and then presumably thinks, "Eh, she'll just beat him up," and goes off to have a quiet night. Followed by the kidnapper calling and crying for mercy. Renard is a cold bastard, but man, it was funny.
I ended up watching this at a friend's house and the friend had never seen this show before. While she said it was a good thing I explained what was going on in this show, she seemed to enjoy it, especially superpowered Diana.
I found this episode to be delightful. Very Shakespearean.
Hank falling in love with his own reflection...I can't decide if that was best or worst. Did enjoy Rosalee figuring it out in five minutes and pitching the guy off a cliff.
As for Diana: of course the first thing you think is, "POOR KIDNAPPER." Renard goes for his phone and then presumably thinks, "Eh, she'll just beat him up," and goes off to have a quiet night. Followed by the kidnapper calling and crying for mercy. Renard is a cold bastard, but man, it was funny.
I ended up watching this at a friend's house and the friend had never seen this show before. While she said it was a good thing I explained what was going on in this show, she seemed to enjoy it, especially superpowered Diana.
Hank falling in love with his own reflection...I can't decide if that was best or worst.
BEST. He got a double dose of the stuff, too.
The child actor playing Diana always feels like she's delivering her lines in a very stilted way which really ups the creepiness. I can't tell if this is deliberate, or if she's actually not very good and the show has found a way to turn it to their advantage.
The cupid-vessen falling off the cliff looked really really fake.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:58 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
BEST. He got a double dose of the stuff, too.
The child actor playing Diana always feels like she's delivering her lines in a very stilted way which really ups the creepiness. I can't tell if this is deliberate, or if she's actually not very good and the show has found a way to turn it to their advantage.
The cupid-vessen falling off the cliff looked really really fake.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:58 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
Oh, and the AV Club review is short-form this week, but points out something I hadn't thought of: that making all the star-crossed pairings so firmly heterosexual is a bit of a missed opportunity.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:07 PM on February 18, 2017
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:07 PM on February 18, 2017
Hank's original champagne was dosed with Wu, it's just that he never saw Wu until the spell had been broken.
posted by zinon at 6:56 AM on February 19, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by zinon at 6:56 AM on February 19, 2017 [1 favorite]
That was simply wonderful, possibly one of the best of the show. I grinned and laughed the whole way through. Well, except for the whole portal to hell bit. I did love Nick's face in that scene.
And nice use of split-screen, it can be overused, but when used well, as it was here, it can be a great accent.
posted by beowulf573 at 9:45 PM on February 19, 2017
And nice use of split-screen, it can be overused, but when used well, as it was here, it can be a great accent.
posted by beowulf573 at 9:45 PM on February 19, 2017
The cupid-vessen falling off the cliff looked really really fake.
Yeah that was pretty cheap. They should have seen that and decided to recut it to just have an off-screen cut-off screaming fall. Coulda done the same payoff with the sudden spell breaking that way and not looked so cheap.
making all the star-crossed pairings so firmly heterosexual is a bit of a missed opportunity.
Meh. If we're really going to buy that Rosalee isn't going to immediately twig to something being up - which is already sort of tough for me to swallow - you could make an argument that having folks step out of five years of observed preference would make it even more obvious. Plus, the point of the spell is to get them mad at each other, right? Not trouble them by making them go against their own orientation.
And perhaps the curse-weaver accurately assessed that a non-zero quantity of men are awful and would react to their partner going after another woman as more aw yeah than troubling.
I'm more bothered by not at all addressing the matter of that poor server who Wu pretty seriously harassed. She was really mistreated in this and apparently that's just no big deal and Wu gets to stay at the resort where she works. That's pretty shit, given that it sounded like they didn't drop any sort of "he drugged us" thing; Nick is just telling a responding officer that the dude just started acting erratic.
posted by phearlez at 12:31 PM on February 20, 2017 [1 favorite]
Yeah that was pretty cheap. They should have seen that and decided to recut it to just have an off-screen cut-off screaming fall. Coulda done the same payoff with the sudden spell breaking that way and not looked so cheap.
making all the star-crossed pairings so firmly heterosexual is a bit of a missed opportunity.
Meh. If we're really going to buy that Rosalee isn't going to immediately twig to something being up - which is already sort of tough for me to swallow - you could make an argument that having folks step out of five years of observed preference would make it even more obvious. Plus, the point of the spell is to get them mad at each other, right? Not trouble them by making them go against their own orientation.
And perhaps the curse-weaver accurately assessed that a non-zero quantity of men are awful and would react to their partner going after another woman as more aw yeah than troubling.
I'm more bothered by not at all addressing the matter of that poor server who Wu pretty seriously harassed. She was really mistreated in this and apparently that's just no big deal and Wu gets to stay at the resort where she works. That's pretty shit, given that it sounded like they didn't drop any sort of "he drugged us" thing; Nick is just telling a responding officer that the dude just started acting erratic.
posted by phearlez at 12:31 PM on February 20, 2017 [1 favorite]
OMG Hank!
I don't care about anything else about this episode but that!
posted by numaner at 3:46 PM on February 21, 2017
I don't care about anything else about this episode but that!
posted by numaner at 3:46 PM on February 21, 2017
The whole thing was silly farce! I believe the terrible-guy-falling-off-a-cliff effect was intentionally terrible, to underline the silliness of it all.
posted by amtho at 7:08 PM on February 21, 2017
posted by amtho at 7:08 PM on February 21, 2017
What a hilarious episode - hard to say what was funnier; the scenery-chewing by everyone under the love spell, or Renard's casual/matter-of-fact manner to the doomed Lieutenant. That "wait, what am I worrying about, Diana can kill people with her mind, from a distance, mmm cookies" moment was probably the best though.
Oh, and Monroe's clock cake, how cute was that? Really going to miss this show.
posted by oh yeah! at 11:27 AM on February 22, 2017
Oh, and Monroe's clock cake, how cute was that? Really going to miss this show.
posted by oh yeah! at 11:27 AM on February 22, 2017
I'm more bothered by not at all addressing the matter of that poor server who Wu pretty seriously harassed.
On rewatch: yes, very much so; it feels like every now and then the show just kind of brushes aside things which are actually Very Much Not OK and this is one of them.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:50 PM on December 18, 2021
On rewatch: yes, very much so; it feels like every now and then the show just kind of brushes aside things which are actually Very Much Not OK and this is one of them.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:50 PM on December 18, 2021
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posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 10:37 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]