Not so Sleepy Hollow!

Okay, so I am really REALLY excited for Fall Premiere Season to commence! I love fall for many reasons... Football, crisp air, hoodies, jeans, pretty leaves, all things pumpkin, Halloween, Thanksgiving, fantasy football... But most of all I love fall because of all the glorious new TV!!! *Swoon* I feel like tonight was basically the unofficial kickoff of fall TV for me. Tonight was the premiere of the first new show that I wanted to try... Sleepy Hollow(9pm on FOX).

I was excited for Sleepy Hollow because I like Halloween-ish shows that aren't really scary, but are kinda spooky. In other words, I love Hocus Pocus, but hate Nightmare on Elm Street. Love Friday the 13th, the day, but hate Friday the 13th, the movie. Love Haunted Hayrides, but won't go in a Haunted House to save my life. Get it? I'm basically a wuss who loves Halloween for the idea of it. In any case, Sleepy Hollow seemed like a good fit for me.

I also love shows that have some supernatural or fantasy elements, but are still mostly anchored in the real world. For this reason I love almost every show on The CW.

So I had pretty high hopes for Sleepy Hollow, and as you know, high hopes generally lead to disappointment. THANKFULLY this was not the case tonight!! For as hopeful as I was for this show, it totally exceeded my expectations! It had everything I look for in a show... A solid backstory, a cute male lead, a likable female lead, a fish out of water element, a few unexpected twists, some not-too-gory violence, and an intriguing lead-up to the rest of the season.

They combined some new elements into the story of Sleepy Hollow that I had never heard before, such as connections to the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse found in the Book of Revelation and the idea of Crane's wife Katrina being a witch??? I think if they had stuck too closely to the original short story of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving they would have run out of material pretty quickly, but the addition of these other myths leaves me intrigued. I am excited to see where they will go with all this...

My only worry is that the powers-that-be may take the corny "monster" type creatures too far and remove the show totally from our realm of reality. I know a Headless Horseman sounds pretty un-realistic already, but because that comes straight out of a classic story I have no problem accepting it as part of this reality. But adding in the random witches and whatnot could take it a little too far... Maybe not for me, but for some.

My favorite part of this show was the fish out of water character of Ichabod Crane, as played by Tom Mison. Crane was first seen in 1781 fighting in the Revolutionary War, then somehow ends up in present day New York with no idea what year it is. I love it anytime a character is subjected to a time jump and has to adjust to the drastic changes... Seeing someone from the 1700's experience paved roads and cars for the first time never gets old for me. There's just something funny about it. One of the best examples of this is in the movie Hocus Pocus when the Sanderson sisters think the sprinkler system is raining the Black Rain of Death on them, and then watching Sarah Jessica Parker think she's going to drown when Bette Midler pushes her into the street. I'm talking classic stuff here!! Which leads me to my favorite scene of the episode tonight... When Abbie Mills(yes, a black female who is not a slave, but a police lieutenant- gasp!) makes Crane get into her squad car and then he spends the whole ride making his window go up and down in glee! LOVED IT!

So my point is... Watch this show! You'll like it! If everything else I said doesn't pull you in then I leave you with this... Crane has an adorable accent. Nuff said.