As of ‘Natural Born Wesen’, it
looks like we’re back to the usual Monster of the Week routine;
last week we encountered bank robbers that use their wesen appearance
to conceal their identity. This reveals to Nick the greater
implications of wesen exposure in the Grimmverse. This episode is a
little more newbie friendly thanks to some exposition delivered by
Hank and Renard, but it’s still better to watch in sequence. We
also get to see an episode that involves Juliette without her
swooning over Renard and has her questioning her grip on reality.
Grimm is no stranger to claiming that
historical events were either orchestrated or caused by wesen. It’s
time to add the Witch Trials to that happy little list; in the past,
when malevolent wesen were exposed to the populace, it set off a
chain reaction that ended in a purge of all discovered wesen. As a
result, there’s a code against wesen showing their faces to us mere
mortals.
Where was this code in the past 36
episodes?
Most episodes don’t have wesen
revealing their faces, but I feel that this deserved a passing
mention in at least one (I’m looking at you ‘Big Feet’). This
episode also introduces the Wesen Council that exists to deal with
wesen that roar and beat their chest too much. It’s through this
revelation we get some backstory for Rosalee’s family; her father
was a former member and her family has a contact in said council.
Though Nick and Juliette are the focus again, Munroe and Rosalee mull
over contacting said contact throughout the episode. It’s nice to
see our supporting cast get airtime despite all the recent drama.
I like this episode because it explores
why a Grimm shouldn’t be a policeman. Lately we are getting more
situations where operating as a Grimm might get the job done more
quickly and efficiently...but would also push Nick into a more grey
area. This episode best illustrates this problem so far. Nick doesn’t
seem to struggle with this much, but I get the feeling that this is
going to become a recurring theme in the series.
For now, Renard and other forces are
just going to keep bailing him out.
I mentioned before the break that I had
grown to really like Juliette and wanted to see her make it out of
the ‘amnesia arc’ in one piece. At first, I though this episode
would undo that; like many a fan, I am frustrated by her inability to
accept that maybe Nick isn’t crazy. Keep in mind that we have seen
her researching wesen DNA and thrown into the damsel in distress role
more than once. The last time I checked, she only lost her memories
of Nick, not all the wesen she has encountered.
Then her new subplot began and I felt
sorry for her again.
After Nick’s done impersonating a
tomato, Renard and Juliette take their potion and the ordeal is done.
However, as Rosalee notes after Juliette leaves the spice shop, she
doesn’t know what effect it’s going to have on the both of them.
Apparently your entire ground floor
becoming a bottomless, whispering pit and your staircase stretching
to infinity is a side effect.
The effects aren’t the best in the
show, but the idea is still unnerving. It’s made clear that
Juliette is hallucinating, but the only reason I can think of her
hallucinating this is to represent the blanks in her memory.
Otherwise, it’s just Grimm doing its best to inject some more
nightmare fuel into the episode. Yay.
Review by Greta Rehak
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