"Guess they're going to face the music."
"You went there!"
I really liked this one. A hardcore techno DJ as the pied
piper: what's not to love? We get a potent mix of gabber, glow sticks and
whatnot mixed with scenes of grinding poverty and some nice social commentary
on the bleak life chances of those born into it. Social inequality is an
insidious and terrible thing. It's the first time we get something like this
with Grimm, and I appreciate it. It's appropriate, too; the original story has
hints of squalor (the rats) alongside apparent glamour. But the glamour that
Roddy enjoys as Wretched Cat is a transient thing, happening in underground,
one-off raves. There's a marked contrast with the world of privilege and elite
culture evoked by the violin lessons; Roddy gets a glimpse of another world but
his expulsion confirms his social exclusion.
This one is much more story-of-the-week: there's not an awful
lot of arc stuff going on, aside from our mysterious lady's seduction of Hank!
But it's gripping, socially aware and well constructed plot-wise. This is my
favourite episode so far by some distance.
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