BWW Spoiler Alert!: 5 Major Takeaways from this Week's GRIMM

Welcome to BWW Spoiler Alert! In this new column, I am going to share five questions and takeaways from the most buzzworthy television episodes of the week (i.e. whatever shows I watch). By definition, these columns will contain Spoilers if you have yet to see the episode in question, so don't say that I didn't warn you!

On Friday night, NBC aired the third to last GRIMM of the season. In "My Fair Wesen" (a nice allusion to the PYGMALION reference Captain Renard makes about the case of the week) we get to know a little bit more about Truble, the new Grimm in town.

SPOILER ALERT! I will be discussing things that actually happen on this episode, so if you haven't gotten around to watching it yet, click on another one of my interesting articles instead; like this, this, or this.

1) I get that this is a show set in a fairy-tale world (all be it a dark one), but isn't the name "Truble" (full name Teresa Rubela) a little too on the nose for the haunted foster kid? Maybe the writers could have gone with Danielle Semegd or Winona Field. I don't know why in my nearly three years of watching this should would lead me expect subtlety from the Grimm writers, but a Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen can dream, right?

2) Was anyone else as uncomfortable as I was when Juliette had to explain to Truble that she and Nick weren't married? With all of the Rosalee and Monroe wedding planning this season, I have to imagine that the perpetually un-engaged Juliette has to be wondering if/when Nick is gonna suck it up and pop the question. If it wasn't so close to Adalind, I might start referring to Juliette as Adelaide. With all that they have been through, is there any chance she decides that she can't wait any longer?

Also of note from this impromptu dinner party; what are the chances that the two Grimms are more than just distantly related? Could M have had another child after she left Nick with Aunt Marie?

3) When Nick, Hank, and Truble went to the New Beginnings Halfway House, was anyone else hoping that Mr. Shue would be there giving the girls weekly assignments to sing and dance all of their abandonment issues away?

4) I know that she has been in Europe, holed-up in a cottage in the woods, but if Adalind had been watching ONCE UPON A TIME, she would have known that her mother's book was being protected by a blood-curse. Seriously though, she throws it, she tries to cut it open with a piece of broken glass (not very practical), but she never thinks to use her recently returned Hexenbiest powers to open it? What are Hexenbiest powers for if you can't even open a book with them? Any ideas on what is in that book? Is she going to use it to go after Sean Renard?

5) In a season that has had nearly no plot development for Nick, the return of the key storyline looks promising. Perhaps we will finally fully explore what Nick's zombie-superpowers are. I love Rosalee and Monroe, and I actually like the Adalind-Renard baby storyline, I just think that with the show's reliance on a case-of-the-week, the show's main character has been pushed to the back. Perhaps in Season 4 Sean Hayes and company will abandon the procedural element of the show and stop shortchanging us on yet unmined Grimm mythology.

Also, since Bernard has the next key, it is safe to assume that he is going to be a major player for the rest of this season, but I will only accept that if Rose is there to nurse him back to health; he seems to have a nasty cough.

So, are you as over the wesen-a-week storytelling as I am? Do you think that Bernard's appearance could finally get the Grimm storyline moving forward? Would you be as patient with Nick dragging as Juliette has been? Let me know what you think in the comments below, and on Twitter @BWWMatt.

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