My husband was away on a business trip, and I was all alone with the cat. When my husband isn't around, I take this opportunity to watch TV that he doesn't care about, usually reality TV. I was about to binge watch all the seasons of Top Chef, when I saw an add for Hemlock Grove, a TV series produced by Eli Roth. I love supernatural things and I really love Femke Janssen, so I decided to go for it. I found myself watching both seasons, not because it was a gripping story but mostly because I was sure that it would get better. It really didn't.
Hemlock Grove is based off a book by Brian McGreevy, of the same name, and it is your typical werewolf / vampire buddy TV series. It features a mega-corporation ruling a small town, Femke Janssen as a mysterious femme fatale that is obviously a vampire and evil, (but no one notices) a monster hunter backed by the Roman Catholic church, (who's a lesbian!) and gypsies, who are also werewolves. Oy.
I think my main problem with Hemlock Grove is that it tries to pack as many tropes into one story as possible, to hit as many subculture groups as possible. I don't usually mind this, (Witness her love of Doomsday. -Ed) but Hemlock Grove made me think that McGreevy and the show's producers think the average person watching this series is an idiot. Here are some of the more labored points.
