Baron Samedi...Is a Puffer Fish?

Grimm
"Ungrateful Dead"
(2013)


Almost forgot about this. It's only as episode but I'm counting it. I had no intention of watching this, but Hulu has a habit of starting new TV programs when you reach the credits of what you were viewing. Thus, Once Upon A Time begat Grimm.

Since I don't watch the show I had no idea what was going on but it was easy to understand most of it. Baron Samedi (the Haitian Voodoo Loa) is a tetrodotoxin-spitting puffer fish-like creature, who makes zombies and is wreaking general havoc in the Portland area. This turns out to be a distraction so that he can assist in kidnapping the Grimm for one of the Royals (your guess is as good as mine). There was also de-powered witch side story.

Baron Samedi: he was scarier in Live and Let Die.

The thing about Grimm is, I want to like it, but every "storybook creature" is really just some kind of were-animal - and they don't even discriminate. There are weremice, werefoxes, weresheep, werepigs, witches are some kind of were, werebees, even werefish. Sure they may not call them that, but I recognize a were when I see one.