Did you know that the Pacific Northwest is home to the most sasquatch sitings in America? That's why I'm not surprised Grimm has decided to go for a bigfoot-esque monster of the week.
In A Nutshell: Okay, to be fair, there are more bigfoot sitings in Washington then Oregon, but that doesn't really matter. A friend of Monroe's from a sort of Vessin support group is caught in a sort of halfway state between human and Vessin, which drives him nuts and makes him kill people. Juliette ends up finding the bodies, as well as some Vessin hair, which she takes in for analysis. The investigation leads Nick and Monroe to a therapist whose working on a way to supress the creature side of Vessin, and the results aint pretty. Somewhere in all this, Monroe accidently lets Hank see the beast, which makes Hank, and Juliette after her test results come back, question what's really going on in Portland.
The Good: After last week, just about anything was gonna seem like a step up, but this was genuinely a good story. I like the whole idea that bigfoot might just be a Vessin who loses control every now and then, and some of the chase scenes, plus the Vessin fight between Monroe and Captain Therapy Man was pretty darn awesome. The fake carnage was, as usual, very convincing, and it was nice to see the show go for good old fashioned make up instead of the kinda corny CGI they usually use for Vessin. Something else I've noticed lately is the show seems to be going for a kind of neo noire feel, granted, without the hard boiled dialogue, that I'm pretty happy about. I loves me some neo noir!
The Bad: Not much in the way of mythos this time out, but the season finale's next week anyway, so it'll probably come then. Camera was a shaky a few times, but it was chase scene in a show with a limited budget, so I'm not really complaining.
Final Rating: 87%
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