Steve sent me an email a few days ago: Hey!Just in case you have nothing better to do with your time, they’re currently filming Grimm outside on 3rd ave in front of Voodoo.Ciao! My reply: Really! I’m downtown- will probably check it out. Thanks! Like a coked-up labradoodle I galloped downstairs outside the New Market […]
Joe Streckert
Joe Streckert is the author of Storied & Scandalous Portland, Oregon: A History of Gambling, Vice, Wits, and Wagers. He writes about books, history, and comics.
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: HITLER WAS A WEREWOLF!
Last night’s episode of Grimm was about magic coins that turn you into Hitler. It was stupid. I enjoyed it. I fully and completely recognize that it was bad. The dialogue in particular was groan-worthy. However, the episode moved along at a fairly good pace and managed to be mostly unboring. As a piece of […]
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: Grimm Goes to Fight Club
There’s a kind of compromise that you have to make with yourself if you’re going to watch network television. No hour-long thing on network TV will ever be as good as what’s on cable. Cable’s given us The Wire, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and Battlestar Galactica. Shows like that have significantly amped up what […]
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: Watching Grimm on Location
I watched last night’s episode of Grimm surrounded by people who were going “woo!” A few early scenes of the episode were filmed in and outside of Old Town’s Graeter Art Gallery, which hosted a viewing party to show off their brush with televisionary fame. The gallery was recognizable in the shot, and, to my […]
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: Last Night’s Episode of Grimm Was (Dare I Say It?) Kinda Good!
For some inscrutable reason, Grimm decided not to suck last night. Going into the episode, I had a feeling of resignation, that would just be another installment of a C-grade cop show with fantasy creatures thrown in for window dressing. It wasn’t. Last night’s episode was actually kind of good. Was it brain-shatteringly awesome? No, […]
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: NBC Put My Neighborhood on the TV, Guys!
Some months ago, I came home to find a yellow flap of paper attached to the door outside my apartment. “Grimm will be filming in your area!” said the paper, and proceeded to announce that a portion of Mississippi would be blocked off by the show’s crew for a day. For a while, the crew’s […]
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: Grimm is Back!
Hi, guys! In addition to TV that is actually good, Grimm is back. I don’t care if you didn’t miss it- you get a recap anyway. Last night’s episode was pretty straightforward, with “straightforward” being a nice word for “boring.” There was this ogre who went to jail. He got out of jail, and started […]
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Rapunzel the Killer Wolf-Girl: It’s Grimm Recap Time!
Last night’s episode of Grimm was about a werewolf Rapunzel who kills people with her hair. It was actually one of the better episodes so far- maybe my second favorite after episode five. Grimm has been extraordinarily uneven, ranging from pretty good to embarrassingly bad, but last night’s episode reaffirmed that Portland’s locally-grown fantasy show […]
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The Huff ‘n Puff Days Are Over: Things That Happened on Last Night’s Grimm
You know the Customs House? That historical building in the North Park Blocks that no one knows what to do with? The makers for Grimm have found a use for the 1897 building: fill it full of fake cops and make mediocre TV. The Customs House got a fair amount of screen time in last […]
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We Bet You’re Mildly Curious About… Grimm!
You’ve probably heard about Grimm. It films in Portland, so perhaps you got those annoying flyers all over your apartment (like I did) telling you that Grimm would be filming in your area and shutting down part of the street. Maybe your aspiring actor friends have tried out to be extras or have bit parts. […]
