Sleepy Hollow

[cactuswatcher]

The fun episode last night seemed to have been written by two committees that never talked to each other. All the long previously-ons and flash backs said pretty clearly that the plan for the exciting climax was going to fail. But not so oddly Crane, Lt. Mills and we in the audience were all convinced it would work anyway. Wish I could put a finger on why the silliness in this show works so well, where it fails so badly in most shows. I guess Tom Mison's charismatic Ichabod is just intense enough to make it fun and occasionally funny and not annoying.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's the casting of Icabode and Abbie Mills or so I've decided. Also, the subject matter is hard to take too seriously.

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

The more episodes that I see, the more I keep thinking that on some level the showrunners are creating an homage to Buffy. The writers regularly wink at the audience, but the actors never do-- they play the roles exactly as if the absurd things that happen to them are real, as if the universe they're in was real. The remaining requirement is that the actors be decent at their craft, which is certainly the case here. So we believe, even though we know the premise is absurd.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say "I believe." The SH universe, unlike the Buffyverse, is a little too absurd for that. It's more a case of saying "play on!" anyway.