Television only allows for three types of shows these days:
Cop drama, lawyer drama, doctor drama.
Okay, I'm being (semi-) sardonic, but there's a certain pattern to a lot of recent shows that definitely fits into certain ... formulas.
I agree that Grimm uses the cop drama as a bit of a crutch at times. It's much, much better when the "real world" is playing as background rather than foreground, something I think the writers have been doing as the show goes on. I hope this trend continues. No offense to those three drama type shows I mentioned above, but Grimm is more interesting when it delves into the weirdness.
(I must politely disagree with you on Defiance, Duncan -- although Nolan works as the town Lawkeeper, it seems more like it is just his job and not the show's actual formula. If anything, I think that it draws on the nearly-dead Western genre with an emphasis on the politics of a frontier town.)
Cop drama, lawyer drama, doctor drama.
Okay, I'm being (semi-) sardonic, but there's a certain pattern to a lot of recent shows that definitely fits into certain ... formulas.
I agree that Grimm uses the cop drama as a bit of a crutch at times. It's much, much better when the "real world" is playing as background rather than foreground, something I think the writers have been doing as the show goes on. I hope this trend continues. No offense to those three drama type shows I mentioned above, but Grimm is more interesting when it delves into the weirdness.
(I must politely disagree with you on Defiance, Duncan -- although Nolan works as the town Lawkeeper, it seems more like it is just his job and not the show's actual formula. If anything, I think that it draws on the nearly-dead Western genre with an emphasis on the politics of a frontier town.)
"I can feed the caterpillar, I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches follows its own nature and is beyond me."
-- Hannibal (TV show)
-- Hannibal (TV show)