04-03-2017, 05:15 PM
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Performer of the Week: David Giuntoli
By Team TVLine / April 1 2017, 7:46 AM PDT
THE EPISODE | “The End” (March 31, 2017)
THE PERFORMANCE | Grimm‘s Nick Burkhardt has never been big with the emotions. Who has time, after all, when your Pacific Northwest hometown is continually under supernatural attack? So Giuntoli has had precious few opportunities over the series’ six seasons to let loose — in any way — and show us how Nick reacts when he has more than a few seconds to process huge emotional news.
With Friday’s series finale, though, the series made up for that. And its leading man proved he was more than equal to the task.
As the members of Nick’s cobbled-together family died in quick succession, Giuntoli played the Grimm’s grief with an increasing intensity, the character’s grip on his normal stoicism easing with each loss until he was crouched over Monroe’s corpse, screaming his frustration at the night sky.
The hour tested Giuntoli’s resilience: He conveyed despair through tears (as each of Nick’s friends passed), rage through physical violence (that Spice Shop scene with the battleax), and fading disbelief through a hopeful look (when his mom and aunt showed up exactly when he needed them). And when Nick returned back to the universe in which everyone was still alive? Nick has never before been so full of joy, and Giuntoli has never (in this show at least) been so vulnerable, so open or so beautifully raw.
“The End” is a fitting finish for NBC’s fairytale series, and Giuntoli’s performance is a crowning glory for his time on the show.
By Team TVLine / April 1 2017, 7:46 AM PDT
Performer of the Week: David Giuntoli
By Team TVLine / April 1 2017, 7:46 AM PDT
THE EPISODE | “The End” (March 31, 2017)
THE PERFORMANCE | Grimm‘s Nick Burkhardt has never been big with the emotions. Who has time, after all, when your Pacific Northwest hometown is continually under supernatural attack? So Giuntoli has had precious few opportunities over the series’ six seasons to let loose — in any way — and show us how Nick reacts when he has more than a few seconds to process huge emotional news.
With Friday’s series finale, though, the series made up for that. And its leading man proved he was more than equal to the task.
As the members of Nick’s cobbled-together family died in quick succession, Giuntoli played the Grimm’s grief with an increasing intensity, the character’s grip on his normal stoicism easing with each loss until he was crouched over Monroe’s corpse, screaming his frustration at the night sky.
The hour tested Giuntoli’s resilience: He conveyed despair through tears (as each of Nick’s friends passed), rage through physical violence (that Spice Shop scene with the battleax), and fading disbelief through a hopeful look (when his mom and aunt showed up exactly when he needed them). And when Nick returned back to the universe in which everyone was still alive? Nick has never before been so full of joy, and Giuntoli has never (in this show at least) been so vulnerable, so open or so beautifully raw.
“The End” is a fitting finish for NBC’s fairytale series, and Giuntoli’s performance is a crowning glory for his time on the show.
By Team TVLine / April 1 2017, 7:46 AM PDT
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