Tag: Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow’s characters sell the show. The series’ command of historical facts is erratic, and “far-fetched” doesn’t begin to describe its rapidly mushrooming mythology. With lesser personalities portrayed by lesser actors, this show would be…

As this week’s arcane lore and secret history swirl around her, Abbie asks, “Are we all having the same conversation here?” She and we can be forgiven the question. Sleepy Hollow’s burgeoning mythology is now…

“The last thing we need,” Captain Irving tells Abbie and Ichabod as they begin this week’s investigation, “is another episode of The Twilight Zone.” Fortunately, the Sleepy Hollow creative team disagreed. Like a lot of…

I’m still enjoying Sleepy Hollow, but wouldn’t recommend it as a Bible study (of course, it’s not claiming to be one). For starters, consider the name of this week’s wicked witch, Sarilda of Abbadon. Ichabod…

Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820) is often characterized as a classic ghost story, but there’s actually nothing supernatural about it. It’s the tale of how scrawny, self-important, socially inept and superstitious schoolmaster…