Sleepy Hollow 102: Blood Moon
Things I liked:
I have to admit, I'm impressed with what the leads are doing with what they're given. Both Nicole Beharie (Lt. Abby Mills) and Tom Mison (Ichabod Crane) are selling it. The conversation in the car about the taxes was worth the price of admission. Mison does lovely throwaway lines where it truly seems he's talking to himself not the camera and Beharie's "I will give you money to stop talking!" got a whoop.
I'm impressed that they paid John Cho for more than just the pilot. It looked like he was "a name actor killed in the pilot to get people watching" but even if he's not back again (and IMDB only lists him for two eps) willingness to spend money on the show is a good sign. Loved his awakening and his delivery of "It's a good name. I'm sorry it's yours."
The post-it notes in Ichabod's hotel room, brilliant.
Taking the husband's ashes. Nice touch. I was wondering if they'd have the guts to kill the kid and I like how they got out of it.
Appreciate that they seem to be laying very definitive groundwork that a working relationship between a man and a woman will not devolve into twue wuve. Of course, that can change...
They seem to be riffing a bit on the success of Elementary -- Holmes and female Watson -- and I'm okay with that. (I wish Elementary didn't take itself so damned seriously, but it's been growing on me) Wish they'd left out the eidetic memory bit.
Things I didn't like:
The pacing. I'm half tempted to time this next week but I'm betting the longest shot wasn't very long. Cut cut cut. Flash flash flash. It's like they're fitting 90 minutes of story into 43 minutes so all we're getting is the outline. They're hitting the beats but that's all there is. Club music television. Beat, beat, beat. Or it could be me not adapting to the new world order. Jury's still out.
The "this is a cool idea let's not think it out" problem. Revoluntionary war tunnels under the town (city?), not a problem. Light coming in from above, means they've been discovered. The entry from the police department could have been plastered over and then forgotten, sure. But when the tunnels were discovered they wouldn't have left revoluntary war supplies down there! They'd have been carried off to a museum. That whole area lives on its history. Plus the huge grill into the "archive" was ridiculous.
That's not what an archive looks like. Add cat hair and that's what my spare room looks like. Only smaller and without an enormous "undiscovered" entrance to underground tunnels.
I'm going to assume they did their research on elderly black powder but I have a feeling they then handwaved most of it.
If I was Romani, I'd be pretty pissed at being the bad guy again. They couldn't have made her another British witch?
I wish they hadn't gone back to the "you and me against the world" paradigm. I would have liked to have seen the Sleepy Hollow police dept beginning to work together to prevent the rise of the horsemen.
I have to admit, I'm impressed with what the leads are doing with what they're given. Both Nicole Beharie (Lt. Abby Mills) and Tom Mison (Ichabod Crane) are selling it. The conversation in the car about the taxes was worth the price of admission. Mison does lovely throwaway lines where it truly seems he's talking to himself not the camera and Beharie's "I will give you money to stop talking!" got a whoop.
I'm impressed that they paid John Cho for more than just the pilot. It looked like he was "a name actor killed in the pilot to get people watching" but even if he's not back again (and IMDB only lists him for two eps) willingness to spend money on the show is a good sign. Loved his awakening and his delivery of "It's a good name. I'm sorry it's yours."
The post-it notes in Ichabod's hotel room, brilliant.
Taking the husband's ashes. Nice touch. I was wondering if they'd have the guts to kill the kid and I like how they got out of it.
Appreciate that they seem to be laying very definitive groundwork that a working relationship between a man and a woman will not devolve into twue wuve. Of course, that can change...
They seem to be riffing a bit on the success of Elementary -- Holmes and female Watson -- and I'm okay with that. (I wish Elementary didn't take itself so damned seriously, but it's been growing on me) Wish they'd left out the eidetic memory bit.
Things I didn't like:
The pacing. I'm half tempted to time this next week but I'm betting the longest shot wasn't very long. Cut cut cut. Flash flash flash. It's like they're fitting 90 minutes of story into 43 minutes so all we're getting is the outline. They're hitting the beats but that's all there is. Club music television. Beat, beat, beat. Or it could be me not adapting to the new world order. Jury's still out.
The "this is a cool idea let's not think it out" problem. Revoluntionary war tunnels under the town (city?), not a problem. Light coming in from above, means they've been discovered. The entry from the police department could have been plastered over and then forgotten, sure. But when the tunnels were discovered they wouldn't have left revoluntary war supplies down there! They'd have been carried off to a museum. That whole area lives on its history. Plus the huge grill into the "archive" was ridiculous.
That's not what an archive looks like. Add cat hair and that's what my spare room looks like. Only smaller and without an enormous "undiscovered" entrance to underground tunnels.
I'm going to assume they did their research on elderly black powder but I have a feeling they then handwaved most of it.
If I was Romani, I'd be pretty pissed at being the bad guy again. They couldn't have made her another British witch?
I wish they hadn't gone back to the "you and me against the world" paradigm. I would have liked to have seen the Sleepy Hollow police dept beginning to work together to prevent the rise of the horsemen.