The original fairy tales, that is, not this post. As usual, my blog is fun family entertainment.
For those of you who don't know (people under 30 probably), the Grimm brothers started collecting Eastern European fables and legends and published a book in 1812. It was not considered suitable for children due to its violence and sometime references to adult topics. (Did you know that Rapunzel got pregnant in the original?)
A really crappy movie was made in 2005 called The Brothers Grimm.
A new TV show just started on NBC the other week and I finally got around to watching the first two episodes on Comcast's OnDemand. So far it is excellent. A cop finds out from the aunt who raised him that he is a descendant of the Grimm brothers, and that they have the ability to see the monsters living in society who are otherwise hidden to normal human sight, and a responsibility to hunt and destroy those monsters.
MINI SPOILER ALERT:
The kicker is that it turns out that not all the monsters are actually monstrous, they are just different and trying very hard to live right and not follow their monstrous instincts.
I look forward to future episodes.
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