Grimm Recap: La Llorona or My Sharona

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By Madelyne27 | Sunday, October 28, 2012 | 7:18 pm | 10 Comments
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 ”On many a dark night, people would see her walking along the riverbank and crying for her children.”  The story behind this episode is actually very interesting and a great Halloween story. There are a couple versions… feel free to check them out here (AFTER you read my recap.)

A father and son are walking under a bridge to do a little fishing. While they are getting their gear in order, the father sees a lady in a long white gown, crying, walking deeper and deeper into the water.

 Insert clever comment (I’m off to a slow start).

The father runs and jumps in the water to try to save her, but he can’t find her under water. He comes up for air and his son is screaming for him, but he dives back down to look for her.  The next time he comes up for air, he sees the lady walking away with his son. He swims to shore, screaming for Rafael (okay, I totally couldn’t even understand what he was saying there, so all the Spanish in the episode was lost on me). Anyway, he runs up the shore and to the parking lot screaming for his son, but they are no where in site.

This bathing suit makes me look fat. 

But it dries amazingly fast. 

Nick is at the Grimmobile looking at his cache of weapons and he ultimately settles on a rather disturbing looking spikey ball thing. He drives to Monroe’s house and it’s totally decorated to the nines for Halloween. There’s a Wesen tradition they used to chase villagers at midnight on Halloween. Monroe wishes he could still do that. (And this is the Monroe I love… all quirky and weird, not all love-struck and swoony.)

 I hope this is to clunk Juliette in the head.

 My house has cobwebs too… inside.

Nick gives him the weapon and Monroe hooks it up to a skeleton to bash a pumpkin on his front porch. Nick gets a call and has to go. But first he makes Monroe promise no one will get hurt. Monroe gives a half-hearted “yes”.

The lady in white is floating in the water and woges into a monster, but it turns out to just be a scary dream that some lady is having. She wakes up and we see that she has a lot of information on cases of missing children.

 Calgon, take me away.

I SAID, TAKE ME AWAY! 

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10 Comments

  1. 1
    Jessi
    Posted October 28, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    Of COURSE Juliette is the only person in Portland who can speak Spanish. This show…she must have a great agent. Getting her in every episode. Also, thanks to your review (and it being Halloween), I desperately need to watch Hocus Pocus. Hooray for awesome Monroe being back! Nick definitely could be a princess, altho I’ll always be inclined to think he looks like Clark Kent.
    Thanks again for a great recap! I’m so glad you’re doing this show!

  2. 2
    Madelyne27
    Posted October 28, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    Hocus locus is a mandatory Halloween flick. And for me, so is Adams Family Values. No clue why I love that movie.

  3. 3
    Jessi
    Posted October 28, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    Because it’s awesome? Every time I see someone with a creepy smile, I think of Wednesday coming out of the Disney hut at camp. “She’s scaring me!”

  4. 4
    zerocool
    Posted October 29, 2012 at 10:57 am

    Overall a great recap and episode, but I have to agree how dumb it was that Juliette was the only translator available (and I like her character!). Also what is up with the intern? They must be leading into a storyline for him, otherwise it’s a very annoying character.

    Loved the ghost story – I studied it in women’s lit in college and it freaked me out!

  5. 5
    Bluedog
    Posted October 29, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    I was so hoping for Munroe to scare the sh** out of those boys and I was not disapointed. I liked this episode especially the ghost story it was based on. I love ghost stories particularly “ghostly women”. If you want to be really scared watch the “Woman in Black” but not at night and not alone.

    We don’t celebrate halloween here and after reading your hilarious captions to the photos at Munroes house, I am wondering. Why do you spend a whole year warning your kids about “stranger danger” then let them loose on one night to knock on strangers doors?

    A good episode would be Juliette and Renard having a night of passion. Nick finding out and kicking her out. Never to be seen again.

  6. 6
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted October 29, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    ^ Woman in Black is mad scary. I started off watching it in the dark and ended up scrambling for the lights. My room is small too, but it felt like I was crossing the grand canyon trying to get from my bed to the damn light switch. So sure some evil face was gonna come looming out of the darkness at me. Good movie though.

    I loved this episode. It was interesting and a little scary, but not too scary.
    It’s funny that you mentioned the makeups on this show, because the most recent episode of Face Off was based on Grimm and we got to see Monroe, the producer and the guy who is in charge of the makeup.
    He looks like a kindly but spry grandpa. And the contestants on the show were shitting themselves over him, so I guess he is a big deal.

    Does Renard wear a wedding band?
    If so, then why?
    I noticed something that looks suspiciously like a wedding band when he was interrogating Valentina.
    I hope Juliette and him never exchange anything besides longing looks though…I don’t mind Juliette, but I don’t want her grubby fingers all over Renard.
    Also, it’s a lie that Juliette grew up in Spain. Spanish from Spain sounds different from the regular old spanish like what you learn in school…that’s what she was speaking.
    LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE DON’T TOUCH RENARD.

    Monroe was so lovable this episode.
    He’s lovable in every episode, but this one especially. He’s my favorite.

  7. 7
    Madelyne27
    Posted October 29, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Halloween isn’t one of my fav holidays. I’ve never been a big fan. But I’m totally excited to watch Woman in Black. I love scary movies. Even though I get completely freaked out and lose sleep.

    Renard does wear a band. It might be a Royal thing. I pretend it’s for me.

    Monroe was awesome this episode. I’ll have to record Face Off. My husband wanted to see it anyway, so I’ll make it like I’m watching it for him. Win some wifey points.

    As for the nuances of Spanish, I struggle with the Taco Bell menu. So I can’t really tell. But she doesn’t look like she has any sort of Spanish blood in her lame veins.

    Now just gotta see if intern Ryan becomes a story or if he’s supposed to be comic relief. Bc the show has the right number of odd balls (Monroe and Wu). He better be something awesome and evil.

    Off to start recapping my other show, basketball wives la. Couldn’t be more different. But about the same amount of make up.

  8. 8
    ChaCha
    Posted October 29, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    I grew up in Phoenix when it was much smaller than it is now and a lot of Mexican culture was more predominant there, so I heard a lot of the legendary stories. La Llorona had me so scared that I was afraid to go to sleep. I’ve outgrown the fear, but really did enjoy this episode as a blast from my past.

  9. 9
    animalhoarder
    Posted October 30, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Interesting that the only 2 people in portland who speak Spanish are Officer Sanchez (how original) and Juliette.

    I’m surprised you didn’t point out that Juliette is a dull in Spanish as she is in English.

  10. 10
    juddfan
    Posted October 30, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    well, I thought Juliette spoke spanish well. The spanish from spain sounds like lisping, a whole bunch of “th” s all over. My Guatemalen Ex used to pull out the “th”s when he was around people from Mexico–used to piss me off no end, and was so offensive–little Bitch!!!

    I’m gonna go read those stories, as I know nothing of the ghost story.

    Madelyne, awesome as always!!! Love your asides, captions and Wu!!!! We wuv Wu!!!

    xoxoxo

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