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#SLEEPY HOLLOW TV SHOW MOVIE#

(The whole elaborate concept of the show, a little frighteningly, recalls the recent fascinating New York magazine interview with Lost’s Damon Lindelof, who posited that you could not make a Hollywood movie about John Henry today without turning it into a mystical thriller involving a Vatican prophecy. The Revolutionary War, it turns out, was not just what you studied in 8th grade history but a metaphysical battle against Death itself.

#SLEEPY HOLLOW TV SHOW FULL#

Sleepy Hollow is full not only of Starbucks–in a funny scene, a puzzled Crane spies one where a livery stable used to be–but of witches, good and bad. There’s more, of course, much more: creators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci introduced a mythology gradually on Fringe, but they pull up a dumptruck of it in this pilot. (Note to producers looking to rein in cast salaries: use as many headless characters as possible.) The authorities judge Crane insane in the membrane but before Abbie can bring him to a psych facility, a bigger problem comes up: someone is decapitating citizens, and that someone turns out to be himself headless.

After awakening in an underground cave in 2013 Sleepy Hollow, a disoriented and rather crabby Ichabod is brought in by local detective Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie).

We meet Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) amidst a Revolutionary War battle, in which he falls while trying to kill a Redcoat who survives both shooting and decapitation. Because, you know, gotta keep things interesting! It essentially mashes up the stories of Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane, but adds a couple hundred years, witch covens, demons, conspiracies, an occult battle to save the human race, a preserved head in a jar, George Washington‘s magic Bible, and at least one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. So the straight-up-bonkers pilot of Sleepy Hollow (Mondays on Fox) script-doctors Irving for today’s steroid era of supernatural storytelling. A guy sleeps for a long time? One headless horseman? Who got this amateur a pitch meeting? Where are the twists? Irving did OK for himself, but he could never have cut it in today’s entertainment world. Follow American short-story writer Washington Irving spun tales about a headless horseman who terrorized the living and a man who fell asleep for 20 years and awoke to a changed world.

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