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What if all of the stories weve heard about, theyre not stories.
What if theyre real?
Their power, legacy, and weaponry passed down through the generations of their descendants, known as Grimms.
The most recently awoken Grimm?
Burkhardt was given a mystical-looking key early on, which is yet to divulge its purpose.
His parents, it turns out, are not both quite as dead as first thought.
Burkhardts first stirrings of his Grimm identity are quite a scary affair.
Burkhardt has to be the least curious inheritor of a mystical legacy in the history of fiction.
Like the horror moments, aBuffy-inspired sense of humour also runs throughGrimm.
Burkhardt trainsBuffy-style, pitting his crossbow against a watermelon sporting a scary felt-tip pen face.
Witches wear Nigella-style aprons to prepare their potions in upper middle class designer kitchens.
The Wesen go to impulse-control AA meetings and read self-help books about confronting their inner man.
Oh, and the group of Wesen committed to hunting down Nick and his pop in?
Grimm reapers of course, complete with scythes.
A smooth-foreheaded she-vole perhaps?
Fingers crossed, people.
The shows mythology is still ironing out its kinks.
Grimmis inventive, using fairy tales as a loose framework from which to develop surprising week-by-week cases.
Grimmreturns to NBC tonight at 10pm.
