Silas Weir Mitchell plays Monroe on NBC’s fairy tale police procedural drama Grimm. Monroe means the titular Grimm Detective Nick Burkhardt in the course of a case and starts helping Nick come to terms with his newfound ability to both see and combat monsters. Monroe himself is Wesen (Grimm speak for supernatural critter). He is a blutbad, which is a sort of a werewolf creature based on the story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs. All of the Grimm episodes riff […]
August 13th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Video | Read More »
What does it take to design props for NBC’s fairytale police procedural drama Grimm? Propmaster Drew Pinniger gives us a glimpse in this video interview. He is especially proud of a Jules Verne-inspired bee stinger weapon, but it did not get a lot of air time in the actual episode it was on last season, so it gets some screen time with his interview here. The most exciting props on Grimm are definitely the cabinet of weapons, collected by the monster-hunting Grimm family for generations, […]
August 13th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Video | Read More »
NBC’s television show Grimm is a cop show. With the twist that Detective Nick Burkhardt is a Grimm. This means he can see through the fae glamour the monsters of the Pacific NW use to conceal themselves from mortal man and walk among us. Plus he has some useful super strength and that sort of thing. Also, his detective partner does not know about his double-life as a supernatural monster-fighter. And neither does the female partner he lives with. NBC bills this as a “fairy […]
August 12th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Lifestyle,Video | Read More »
Dark Highlands is reading for a less mature audiences anthology called Dark Highlands: Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folklore. This is a paying market, but it has the peculiarity of accepting submissions only from the United States, with preference given to Midwestern authors. Their site helpfully lists the states they count as being in the Midwest region, in case you don’t know whether you are writing in a flyover state or not: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and […]
June 12th, 2011 | Filed under Professional | Read More »
