by Verushka Byrow
The circus comes to Grimm in this episode – Carnival Metamorphosia to be exact, which is a thinly veiled excuse to have Wesen woge and entertain humans. Sam Witwer (Being Human) plays Max, a blutbad in the circus, who when the episode opens seems to be cheating on his girlfriend with two human girls. They’re intent on figuring out how he changed into the Wolfman they just saw during the show. Max woges and the next thing we know, Hank and Nick are being called in to investigate the girls’ murders.
The circus comes to Grimm in this episode – Carnival Metamorphosia to be exact, which is a thinly veiled excuse to have Wesen woge and entertain humans. Sam Witwer (Being Human) plays Max, a blutbad in the circus, who when the episode opens seems to be cheating on his girlfriend with two human girls. They’re intent on figuring out how he changed into the Wolfman they just saw during the show. Max woges and the next thing we know, Hank and Nick are being called in to investigate the girls’ murders.
All in all, Hank and Nick have a minimal presence in the episode – much of it is devoted to Max struggling to control himself, because he’s woging and blacking out, and assumes himself that he killed the girls. He begins to slowly lose control, so much so that he hurts his girlfriend, which opens up the episode for an interesting turn of events – Monroe and Rosalee do some investigating on their own, without Nick.
I can’t really remember when, if ever, this has happened, but it's way overdue. Now that Hank and Juliette are in on the secret, I’ve been missing the Monroe/Rosalee/Nick relationship of previous seasons. For a time, it seemed like the show was marginalising Monroe and Rosalee in order to bring Juliette and Hank further into the Grimm mythos, while focusing on Monroe and Rosalee’s relationship only. This is all good and well, but it kept them on the outskirts of Nick’s life for pretty much the entire season. Now that they’re engaged (and asking Nick and Juliette to be best man and maid of honour at their wedding respectively, no less) this episode had them both investigating the carnival on their own because they suspected the killer Nick was searching for might be losing his humanity – a side effect of being forced to woge too much.
As Monroe put it, “Why is it always the blütbad?”
I can’t really remember when, if ever, this has happened, but it's way overdue. Now that Hank and Juliette are in on the secret, I’ve been missing the Monroe/Rosalee/Nick relationship of previous seasons. For a time, it seemed like the show was marginalising Monroe and Rosalee in order to bring Juliette and Hank further into the Grimm mythos, while focusing on Monroe and Rosalee’s relationship only. This is all good and well, but it kept them on the outskirts of Nick’s life for pretty much the entire season. Now that they’re engaged (and asking Nick and Juliette to be best man and maid of honour at their wedding respectively, no less) this episode had them both investigating the carnival on their own because they suspected the killer Nick was searching for might be losing his humanity – a side effect of being forced to woge too much.
As Monroe put it, “Why is it always the blütbad?”
Rosalee gets herself hired by the circus and put on stage, but during the show, Max loses it completely and attacks her for taking his girlfriend’s place. While Monroe defends her, Nick arrives and the ringmaster flees when he sees him. However, the other Wesen in his circus finally stand up for Max, and themselves, and well, nothing not even a blütbad like the ringmaster can stand up to a fire-breathing dragon. That is in need of an episode all by itself.
There’s no way to arrest anyone at the end of the day, and the circus leaves with advice from Rosalee on where to take Max for him to recover.
Now, in the Swiss Alps, Adalind, the baby and Meisner finally make it to the road and a car where they find Sebastian. One of the Prince’s minions tries to capture them, but Adalind, flexing her hexenbiest muscles for the first time in a long time takes care of him. Meisner and Adalind and the baby flee in the car, but Sebastian stays behind finally dying like he was always going to. I would guess the Prince is about to call Portland home as we head into the finale.
All in all, a solid episode with more wonderful Wesen history in the mix. But, more than anything, it’s about time we see Monroe and Rosalee re-enter Nick’s life. His life and the episodes in general? Much more interesting when they take an active part in it.
There’s no way to arrest anyone at the end of the day, and the circus leaves with advice from Rosalee on where to take Max for him to recover.
Now, in the Swiss Alps, Adalind, the baby and Meisner finally make it to the road and a car where they find Sebastian. One of the Prince’s minions tries to capture them, but Adalind, flexing her hexenbiest muscles for the first time in a long time takes care of him. Meisner and Adalind and the baby flee in the car, but Sebastian stays behind finally dying like he was always going to. I would guess the Prince is about to call Portland home as we head into the finale.
All in all, a solid episode with more wonderful Wesen history in the mix. But, more than anything, it’s about time we see Monroe and Rosalee re-enter Nick’s life. His life and the episodes in general? Much more interesting when they take an active part in it.
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