User blog comment:Artiepenguin/Island of Dreams--Review/@comment-1966944-20120402063409

This episode was somewhat disappointing. It was obviously much better than Plumed Serpent but I made the mistake of taking the previews at their word and since Adalind was returning, I thought we'd get much more plot development about Renard and his plans. Instead we get an episode with a lot going on but not a lot accomplished. It seemed to serve more as a preview for possible plotlines next season. Lets see, we have a relationship in the works for Monroe and Rosalee, another relationship developing between Hank and Adalind (though that one is nefarious and faux) the ever boring (will they stay together or not?) Nick and Juliette, and Wu on drugs!

Now all these new plot introductions would be more exciting if the writers went ahead and developed them in a timely matter but based on their history, they'll either stretch it out or won't follow up on any of them at all. Already, next week's episode appears to have Nick and Juliette on vacation at a cabin with some type of creatures next door, so as far as I can see, nothing just presented will be followed up on.

The part about Renard's family owning the painting and the short remark about getting to Nick's soul through his friends was intriging but, as it turned out, just mentioned in passing and only served as a teaser.

Take away all the sub plots, however, and you have a story about a couple of drug addicts who robbed a store and killed the owner, came back to steal more and went on the run, ending up at the "Island of Dreams" some kind of combination sweat sauna and opium den, which would of been more interesting if a vairety of creatures were there, but I only saw a couple of creatures (besides the two Skalengeck's) and the rest appeared to be human. So basically, besides the suspects being creatures, we have your basic cop plot from a thousand other cop shows. I expect a little more from Grimm than that.