‘Grimm,’ or How to Tie a Bow in Less than 60 Minutes

I am not a fan of endings. There is something about the tidiness with which endings are usually presented that bothers me. So I put off watching the series finale of Grimm for about a month. I know it was a trash move, but in my defense, I like the show and I didn’t want it to end. (Now ask me how long it took me to watch Firefly?) So when last we saw Nick he was watching his partners, Hank and Wu, die at the hands of Skeletor/Zerstörer in the precinct. And all the magic stick in the world can’t bring them back. What happens next is pretty simple to explain: Zerstörer kills er’rybody. And these are no “go gentle into that good night” type deaths. Unless the thing going gently is Zerstörer’s staff (minus the one piece of magic stick Nick still has) as it goes into the throats/abdomens/appendages of all of Nick’s loved ones. He’s so savage he makes Eve kill herself.  And then he takes out Adalind.  I mean… Monroe and Rosalee get to die together Romeo and Juliet style. Except that means they’re forced to watch each other die.   Then his third cousin on his mother’s side catches the fade. Don’t get me wrong before he was handing out Ls to everyone, there was an attempt at some anti-worst-evil-ever magic…

There was a spell, roughly translated as Strength of Blood, so Rosalee whipped up what she could right quick then added the special ingredients: co-mingled blood of a Wesen, a hexenbiest, and a Grimm or some such wisdom found in an ancient text. But listen, fam, it ain’t wor…