New TV Season, Monday

[cactuswatcher]

Well, I saw Bones and Sleepy Hollow, thereby missing Snooki on DWTS (shucky darns, drat and pshaw!). It's amazing that Bones is still on the air and still pretty good. I'd say it was time to put it to rest, but what else would I turn on the TV to watch at that time?

Sleepy Hollow is certainly wild and woolly. Forget Washington Irving's tale of a horrible practical joke on the town geek. This is more Rip Van Winkle meets The Da Vinci Code, crossed with an overly serious, pseudo-religious, big-budget, horror movie. Imagine a scary National Treasure with one of the main characters a time traveler. The humor of the situation is sometimes unavoidable, so it's just as well they let it come out. But, it's mostly played dead serious. Definitely not a program for younger children. Not sure it's a great show, but given all the possible places it could have slipped into pure camp, it's not bad. It's way better than Mob Doctor that I was sitting through last year between Bones and Castle. I'd give it a notch above Once Upon a Time for now. YMMV.

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try it if I can find it via TWC on-demand. Hope it's better written than OUAT, which I want to like...

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I think you can watch it on FOX's website if necessary. I wouldn't venture a guess what the second episode is going to be like. The pilot is worth watching if only for the craziness.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

If the #1 job of a pilot is to show you why you should or should not watch a show, then this one gets an A+. I think I know exactly what kind of show this is going to be and the cast committed pretty well to it. Seems very National Treasure meets Supernatural so there's an audience for that. Don't know how big, but there is... Also don't know that I'll keep watching it. But it definitely did it's job.