Grimm
NBC | Release Date: October 28, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
16
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The OregonianKristi TurnquistJan 4, 2017
Season 6 Review: The Season 6 premiere moves at a brisk clip, efficiently dispensing of much of last season's dead weight, and offering its own incidental pleasures, including the nifty duo of Hank and Wu, who stay busy keeping track of Renard and feeding inside info to Nick. The ending is a typical Grimm cliffhanger, which revs up the suspense and reminds us how good it is to have Grimm back again, for one last go-round. Read full review
80
The New York TimesMike HaleOct 24, 2013
Season 3 Review: Grimm is not a profound show (what is?), but few are more purely entertaining--engaging, clever, tense, funny, well paced and featuring a remarkably appealing cast as the friends and colleagues who help Nick. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraSep 17, 2012
Season 2 Review: It's hard not to love a show with a comely apothecary, and it's impossible not to love the new season of Grimm. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanOct 27, 2011
Season 1 Review: It has chills and humor and the ability to take a procedural story and twist it. Read full review
80
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinOct 27, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show shrewdly offers more than a monster of the week, with some absorbing subplots that continue from week to week. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoAug 31, 2012
Season 2 Review: The overall mythology is sprouting nicely thorny tendrils. [10 Sep 2012, p.42]
75
HitfixAlan SepinwallAug 14, 2012
Season 2 Review: The supporting cast was better used, there were occasional touches of humor beyond Monroe, they mythology didn't just feel like a retread of bits from "Buffy," "Angel," etc., and I even thought leading man David Giuntoli had gotten better. Read full review
75
RedEyeCurt WagnerOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's dark, disturbing and a little downbeat--which isn't a dis at all. Read full review
75
NewsdayVerne GayOct 27, 2011
Season 1 Review: Grimm has real promise if NBC has real patience. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMike HaleOct 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Some of the jokes work, and some of the frights are actually scary, and on a repeat viewing the craftsmanship and attention to detail made more of an impression. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithOct 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: It can be genuinely scary (the pilot has a "Lovely Bones" vibe that's not for children). But it has wit too, and avoids camp. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDaniel GoldbergOct 22, 2012
Season 2 Review: While it's not as consistently cheeky as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show does provide enough self-satirizing jabs to satiate cynics. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert BiancoOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: The byplay among the main characters is appealing, and the premise is solid and easy to grasp. The show does overplay its dread notes tonight, but there are also a few promising moments when Grimm shows a surprisingly subtle and even amusing touch. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraOct 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: All of which adds up to a nice, moody, entertaining-enough hour and the troublesome question of how interesting this will be by the third episode. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenOct 18, 2013
Season 3 Review: The incessant fighting overwhelms anything interesting.... Things improve in week 2. [25 Oct/1 Nov 2013, p.94]
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: Grimm has a low-rent Saturday Syfy vibe to it. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkOct 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: Grimm is buoyed by some decent special effects and snarky wolfman Monroe, who will be a series regular. But it's not nearly as imaginative, involving or picturesque as ABC's fairy tale offering, Once Upon A Time. Read full review
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: There's a potentially good supernatural cop show to be made, and certain pieces in place to make this into that. But the version you'll see on NBC tonight seems to be embracing the show's likely failure by being something few will miss if it doesn't work out. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: Compared to so many other crime procedurals, Grimm offers a twist on the usual. It remains to be seen whether that twist will be superficial or substantive. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: If only Grimm didn't also feel like we've seen it before, only executed with more verve and humor back in the glory days of Buffy and Angel. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineMike LechevallierOct 27, 2011
Season 1 Review: Grimm is neither a very strong police procedural nor a supernatural drama, as it sacrifices the intelligence required to construct smart, puzzling crimes in order to spend more time attempting to enunciate its fantastical elements, which aren't all that fantastical, with amateurish CGI. Read full review
50
People WeeklyTom GliattoOct 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show offers genuine scares, but lines like "I already cried wolf once--you think they're gonna believe me?" cast a hokey spell. [31 Oct 2011, p.35]
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show is moderately entertaining, albeit somewhat predictable. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 20, 2011
Season 1 Review: Underneath the special effects and fairy-tale plot propeller lurks just another crime drama, and not a very good one at that. Read full review
42
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: It should be more original, and the characters should be less forgettable. Read full review
42
Washington PostHank StueverSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show vacillates between hokey and clever as it mines the Brothers Grimm for contemporary analogues. Read full review
40
SlateTroy PattersonOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: Grimm is most alive in the scenes where Nick teams up with Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), a monster who is trying hard to walk the straight path. These moments introduce some much-needed levity to a drama where every echoing slam of a file-cabinet drawer amounts to a portentous groan. Read full review
40
PopMattersDaynah BurnettOct 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: Filmed and set in a soggy, green-washed Portland, Oregon, its procedural plotting and visual flair carry it along when it occasionally lapses into something like camp. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryOct 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: Among Grimm's more immediate challenges are Giuntoli's initial blandness as its lead, along with questions regarding how long his confused partner ("Lincoln Heights'" Russell Hornsby) can continue showing up at crime scenes without ascertaining something's weird in the state of Oregon. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 27, 2011
Season 1 Review: It isn't invested deeply enough in magic to create an alternative world, and while Giuntoli is perfectly fine as a cop, the police procedural part feels routine. Read full review
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