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| Sleepy Hollow airs on Fox every Monday at 9/8 Central |
Sleepy Hollow: The Early Verdict
From the opening scene featuring a chaotic Revolutionary War battle, Sleepy Hollow delivers a solid urban fantasy story that occasionally surprises in its storytelling and scare factor.
In this re-imagining of the famous headless horseman story by Washington Irving, Ichabod Crane wakes up in modern -Sleepy Hollow after a two-hundred-or-so year nap. Instead of the bookish school teacher from the original short story, we're introduced to Ichabod as a revolutionary soldier and personal agent for General George Washington.
Our other lead is a detective, Abbie Mills. Ichabod meets Abbie and immediately comments on how she must have been emancipated as she's African American. (Oh Fox, you scandalous cheeky monkeys you.)
Abbie is almost religiously skeptical of the weird things happening around her and acts as a reluctant partner with Ichabod in the first few episodes. Her cynicism makes sense to a certain point considering her past, but after seeing a headless horseman, a burning witch, and a demon, you'd think she'd get over it pretty quickly. Thankfully, the third episode seems to have fixed her Sculliness. (For lack of a better word.)
While the Christian mythology is hit and miss (the horsemen of the apocalypse seem to be cast as villains where the Bible depicts them as punishment from heaven) and the plot is a bit strange, the show covers up its weaknesses with clever humor and a talent for scares. The make up and special effects people deserve some real credit here. These are the scariest demons and monsters I've seen outside of a Guillermo Del Toro film.
It's not too late if you haven't started watching yet. Catch up online and watch the fourth episode this Monday night.
I'll give this show a 3.5 out of 5.
In this re-imagining of the famous headless horseman story by Washington Irving, Ichabod Crane wakes up in modern -Sleepy Hollow after a two-hundred-or-so year nap. Instead of the bookish school teacher from the original short story, we're introduced to Ichabod as a revolutionary soldier and personal agent for General George Washington.
Our other lead is a detective, Abbie Mills. Ichabod meets Abbie and immediately comments on how she must have been emancipated as she's African American. (Oh Fox, you scandalous cheeky monkeys you.)
Abbie is almost religiously skeptical of the weird things happening around her and acts as a reluctant partner with Ichabod in the first few episodes. Her cynicism makes sense to a certain point considering her past, but after seeing a headless horseman, a burning witch, and a demon, you'd think she'd get over it pretty quickly. Thankfully, the third episode seems to have fixed her Sculliness. (For lack of a better word.)
While the Christian mythology is hit and miss (the horsemen of the apocalypse seem to be cast as villains where the Bible depicts them as punishment from heaven) and the plot is a bit strange, the show covers up its weaknesses with clever humor and a talent for scares. The make up and special effects people deserve some real credit here. These are the scariest demons and monsters I've seen outside of a Guillermo Del Toro film.
It's not too late if you haven't started watching yet. Catch up online and watch the fourth episode this Monday night.
I'll give this show a 3.5 out of 5.
