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Grimm: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 28, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 119 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) learns he descends from an ancient family who is in charge of keeping humans safe from creatures that were described in the Grimm's fairy tales.
  • Genre(s): Science-Fiction, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Oct 27, 2011
    80
    It has chills and humor and the ability to take a procedural story and twist it.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Oct 21, 2011
    60
    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.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Oct 27, 2011
    20
    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.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 45
  3. Negative: 3 out of 45
  1. rednas21
    10
    First new series of the year that I'm actually counting the days until the next episode. Could be better directed as I felt like it was missing a strong punch (the WOW factor) but it was enjoyable to watch and showed good promise for future.… Expand
    • 3 of 3 users said yes
  2. spizer511
    5
    I'm giving this thing 5 episodes to break being a "Monster of the week" show. If secrets aren't told and plot doesn't move on by the fifth ep then I'm dumping it.… Expand
    • 2 of 3 users said yes
  3. Tachikoma
    2
    One of the most boring, predictable shows I have had the mispleasure of watching. Sadly, as my wife loves this sort of tat I do have to sit through it each week and it generally goes like this.. Step 1: Present day re-enactment of Grimm's Fairy Tale Step 2: Detective Burkhardt is on scene and sees someone's face turn into a really bad cgi monster face. Step 3: He speak to the monster, they act scared of him..even though he has exhibited no monster slaying skills what-so-ever thus far in the series. Step 4: He goes and speaks to dog boy, Eddie, who knows everything about everything and then they go to beat down on the bad guys. Step 4: They get separated, the detective defeats the bad guy while teaching us all a morale lesson. Step 5: End of show and we all look forward to the exact same formula next week ..whoohoo! So yes, it offers nothing original or interesting, the writing is laughable and the effects worse than Charmed (another favourite if Mrs Tachikoma) and all in all a waste of NBC's money.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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