First, that poker game.
It took a different combination of genres before critics and audiences really warmed up to their work.
Combining crime with comedy, sci-fi with crime… Jim Koufs name was soon indissociable from the cop genre.
The parallels betweenBuffyandGrimmare many.
Like Buffy, Nicks supernatural responsibility interferes with his professional and personal life.
GrimmtranslatedBuffys premise of a slayer falling for the creature its destined to hunt into a different context.
Instead of Buffy and Angels romance,Grimmgave us Nick and Munroes bromance.
The furtherGrimmgoes on, the more Wesen join Nicks gang.
Hes the one who must stop them.
This is his calling.
This is his duty.
This is the life of a Grimm.
In other words cheap.
He came to us and basically said, A modern retelling of the Brothers Grimm.
Crime drama with a supernatural twist?
Greenwalt knew who he had to call.
Described by Greenwalt as a story machine, Kouf is also a stickler for research.
The response to Greenwalt, Kouf and Carpenters global cherry-picking through myth and legend has been a positive one.
Not as much fun as your audiences have watching.
