People are still buying Grimm on Apple TV, ten years after it ended and with no revival yet

If you were watching telly in the 2010s, you'll remember it was prime time for monsters, magic, and all sorts of supernatural nonsense – Supernatural was still a huge deal, The Vampire Diaries had fans in a chokehold, and newer upstarts like Sleepy Hollow, Teen Wolf and Once Upon a Time seemed contractually obliged to put a mysterious forest in every episode. Not to be left out, NBC threw its hat in the ring with one of the more peculiar blends of the lot: Grimm. Think of it as what might happen if Supernatural and The X-Files had a slightly odd child they never quite acknowledged in public.

Grimm kicked off on NBC in October 2011 and wrapped up in March 2017, running for 6 seasons in total.

Ten years on, Apple TV has decided it's time Grimm got another turn in the spotlight. And honestly, for all its wild plot twists and daft German mythology, it's aged surprisingly well.

Monsters, murder, and a lot of odd German words

The set-up is pure genre gold: David Giuntoli plays Nick Burkhardt, a Portland cop who one day discovers he's descended from actual Grimm fairy tale folk. That means – lucky him – he's suddenly able to see strange creatures hiding in plain sight, called Wesens. Cue a monster-of-the-week detective routine crossed with soap opera melodrama, as he and his partner Hank (Russell Hornsby) investigate why people keep getting mauled under suspiciously folkloric circumstances.

It's not just Nick and Hank. You've got Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), a reformed wolf-man (sorry, Blutbad – half the fun of this show is deciding how seriously you'll take phrases like that). There's Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch), Nick's long-suffering girlfriend, Rosalee (Bree Turner), who deals in mystical herbs and plot devices, and a police captain (Sasha Roiz) who may or may not be running several shadowy factions on the side. As things go on, the show ditches the case-of-the-week gambit for a tangled mythology web involving royal families, powerful witches (Hexenbiests, because of course), and more ancient secrets than you can shake a dusty leather-bound book at.

Frankly, what kept Grimm afloat wasn't just the monsters. The mythology got a bit madder every year, the cast leaned in hard, and fans stuck around for all six seasons, which is no mean feat in American network telly – especially for something so intensely geeky.

Streaming resurgence and a possible comeback

This is where things get a bit interesting. It turns out critics came around in the end: Grimm finished with a 89% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and three of its seasons somehow picked up 100% ratings (far better than you'd expect for a series with this much prosthetic fur flying about). Audience scores were even higher, honestly no surprise given how many people have fond memories of it.

The series has been lurking on Peacock and Prime Video in America for a while, but it's the Apple TV digital storefront that's just given Grimm another nudge up the popularity charts. According to Flix Patrol, it's now sitting pretty as Apple TV's sixth most-rented show – just ahead of Cowboy Bebop and right after Tales from the Crypt. Not what you'd call a minor cult following at this point.

'Grimm' is currently the sixth most popular show by rentals and purchases on Apple TV's digital storefront.

As for what's next: back at the start of 2025, news came out that Peacock wanted to revive Grimm, but not as another series – they're planning a feature film, with the original creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt onboard as producers. The last proper update was from Bitsie Tulloch in August, when she said a script is being written. No word yet on when (or if) they'll actually start filming, so don't hold your breath for a release date just yet.