Sleepy Hollow: Season 1 (2013)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 9
Despite its overstuffed plot, Sleepy Hollow is a fun romp with exciting action scenes and sparkling production values.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 6
Despite its overstuffed plot, Sleepy Hollow is a fun romp with exciting action scenes and sparkling production values.
Season Info
An update of Washington Irving's classic tale about Ichabod Crane, who wakes up in the 21st century but finds his 18th-century nemesis, the Headless Horseman, has also come along for the ride.
Network: FOX
Premiere Date: Sep 16, 2013
Cast
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Tom Mison
Ichabod Crane -
Nicole Beharie
Lt. Abbie Mills -
Orlando Jones
Capt. Frank Irving -
Katia Winter
Katrina Crane -
Lyndie Greenwood
Jenny Milly -
John Cho
Andy Brooks -
Clancy Brown
August Corbin -
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Episodes
Pilot
Revolutionary War soldier Ichabod Crane awakes in modern-day Sleepy Hollow, where evil is lurking.
Blood Moon
Ichabod and Abbie hunt for a vengeful witch from the 1700s who has returned. -- (C) Fox
The Lesser Key of Solomon
S1Ep4, The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lt. Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane search for Abbie's estranged sister, Jenny (guest star Lyndie Greenwood), who has escaped from a Sleepy Hollow psychiatric hospital. SLEEPY HOLLOW airs Mondays on FOX.
John Doe
An unidentified boy is found in Sleepy Hollow, and Ichabod and Abbie are called to the case to speak with him, but must hurry to find out who he is and where he's from when they realize something sinister is about to happen.
Critic Reviews for Sleepy Hollow: Season 1
Fox's Sleepy Hollow gallops like a horse that chugged a keg of Red Bull.
You have one of the most complex and mixed-up and irritating mythology soufflés ever to be delivered in a single pilot.
Plenty of places for this series to take its engaging leads, one of the odder crime-fighting pairs on TV, doing battle against one of TV's creepier-looking if expressionless bad guys.
Irving's original Sleepy Hollow teemed with ghosts and ghoulies, real and imagined. That's his story, and I'm stickin' with it.
It's fun, it's entertaining, it's got some scares and some action and plenty of secrets to unveil.
Deliberate and thoughtful, [it is not]. Rather than observe the ways a man from the 1770s might grapple with the realities of 2013, Sleepy Hollow seems mainly concerned with quickly launching a Grimm-like romp through folklore and episodic crime-solving.
The special effects are convincing, and the pilot is directed at a properly taut and compelling pace by co-creator [Len] Wiseman.
Even amid the excess exposition, you'll be able to spot a few enjoyable jolts, some clever, throwaway culture-shock moments and the charms of the show's two stars.
Whatever befalls its denizens, Sleepy Hollow gets off to a better and more "believable" start than anticipated.
It's a program that bounces around tonally and narratively, never feeling like its head is in the right place to know where it wants to go.
It's a time-travel story, a conspiracy thriller, a buddy-cop tale, a platonic-but-with-sexual-tension love story, and sometimes a satire on modern attitudes, and it juggles these modes with sure hands.
The concept raises questions not only about the horseman's absence of a head, but in commercial terms, its wobbly set of legs as well.
By the end, Sleepy Hollow seems less like a show than a garage sale of used story pitches.
This show about Sleepy Hollow, gets off to a bit of a sleepy start, and well, we're confused about just how long the two leads can survive fighting off this same big bad.
Ichabod and Abbie may be the best new cop team of the year. Their scenes together are the show's greatest pleasure. Unfortunately, they have to wade through a story muckier than the floor of that cave.
Time travel, the undead, and a National Treasure-style mystery all rolled into one? Sign us up for this guilty pleasure.
While the premise of Sleepy Hollow is campy and quite ridiculous, it's also surprisingly enjoyable to follow it down the rabbit hole of an ever-expanding occult mythology that's sure to provide many monster-of-the-week plotlines.
To set the stage for the rest of the series, the pilot is crammed with supernatural events, and these pile up so fast that the whole enterprise threatens to become ridiculous. But hang in there and watch where it leads.
Nothing scary here, but Hollow is fun enough, and promising enough, too.
Cultural commentary mixed with the mystery, along with lavish production values, gives Irving's tale a clever twist.
I don't know if the pace and number of ideas is sustainable, or if the Headless Horseman shredding a police car with small arms fire is as nutty as the show can ever go, but I'm at least curious to see what comes next.
Sleepy Hollow got my attention, but I'm not yet sure if it's good, ridiculous, good but ridiculous, or good because it's ridiculous. It could turn out, underneath all its DaVinci Code plot overstuffing, to be hollow. But it sure as hell ain't sleepy.
This series deserves at least one view and maybe some return visits.
It has promise. And if the people involved can find some way to keep all the plates spinning, it might even turn out to be more than a curiosity.
Mostly minor gripes for what is very much a fun, pulpy hour of primetime television.
Taking a chance by killing off some of the more familiar faces in the first episode always impresses me. It means that pretty much anything can go and we need to hold on to our seats because it's going to be a rough ride. Bring it on!
The premiere episode of Sleepy Hollow is far more fun than it has any right to be.
Sleepy Hollow works because it approaches everything with a relatively straight face, yet never seems to be taking itself too seriously.
Sleepy Hollow is big on the three Fs: fog, frights and fun and we're totally buying a one-way ticket to Crazytown aka Sleepy Hollow this fall.
The mythology comes on hard and heavy in the first hour, but like ABC's blink-and-you-missed-it spring thriller Zero Hour, it's ponderous yet silly.
The world created, from the minds of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe), does show promise of being the sort of strange and fun place worth spending an hour in each week.
This could be a watershed moment in TV's long and inglorious history of idiocy, a drama that unintentionally almost matches Arrested Development for laughs.
Sleepy Hollow is exciting, fun and dark, with a side of adventure and mystery to keep us interested through each act.
Can Sleepy Hollow live up to Buffy, the granddaddy (or grandmomma) of this genre? Time will tell, but for now I'm just happy to see it off to a good start with a lively, fun first hour.
That the series doesn't take itself seriously makes its overwrought premise and stock characters surprisingly easy-and sometimes genuinely pleasurable-to stomach.
Sleepy Hollow is gluttonous and over-the-top in all the best ways.
Although the show has made obvious updates to the story, with one episode down, there's a certain sense of hollowness to the plot itself.
The plot continues to unfold at a steady pace, and I'm completely wrapped up in the mystery now.
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