Sleepy Hollow Season 1: Episode 3 Review

Sleepy hollow is a TV show which has recently aired on Fox and while I didn't review the first two episodes I think it's still early enough in the series to to do so (also early enough for you to catch up if you're are not yet watching!)

Sleepy Hollow is a retelling of the classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In this version the story takes place in the present. The series stars Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane who wakes up in modern day New York to find the Headless Horseman is also present in the city. Together with Lt. Abbie Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) and his deceased wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter) they try and stop the Horseman (Death) from bringing back to life the other Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse...

Season 1 Episode 2: Blood Moon, Recap:

• Ichabod and Abbie stopped Serilda of Abadon from being completely revived
• Abie had a vision of Sherrif Crobin who tells her to not be afraid of 49
• We see Abbie's sister beefin' it up in her cell and we also learn that she doesn't like to take her meds...

Season 1 Episode 3: For The Triumph of Evil...

Episode 3 started with Abbie's very creepy dream sequence where we are introduced to the awesome Sandman (or as he's referred to in the show, Rokaronti.) In te show Rokaronti is a dream-demon who punishes people who idly stand by when they could be helping others, just like Abbie let everyone believe her sister was crazy by not telling the truth. After Abbie finds out that the demon will come for her, she and Ichabod go into Rokartonti's dream world where she destroys him by finally admitting that she should have helped her sister and told the truth. After Abbie and Ichabod wake up, Abbie decides to go visit her sister only to find that she escaped the asylum...

I think that this was a really great episode. With each week I find myself liking the show more and more. I loved that they are exploring all these different types of myths and not just staying with the Horsemen story arch. That being said, I feel as though this episode was too disjointed from the previous ones, there was absolutely no mention of the Horsemen or Katrina. I understand that the purpose of this episode was to better explain Abbie and Jennifer's relationship and history but I still think they could have tied it in with the rest of the series in a much better way.

But again I have to say that seeing Jennifer and Abbie's story was really interesting and by using the Sandman they did a fantastic job at keeping with the theme and atmosphere of the series. Hopefully we will find out what exactly the demon was planning to do to Abbie and her sis those four days in the woods, since it wasn't explored in the episode. 

Something that I'm really glad about is that the new Sheriff is letting Ichabod and Abbie do their work even if he doesn't exactly believe it's real. Lastly I just wanna say that I think they did a fantastic job with Rokaronti's character model, he kinda looks like a cross between Pyramid Head and the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth...

dem' moobs

Anyway I think that this series has a lot of potential and is getting better and better with each episode!  Tell me, what did you think of the episode and are you guys enjoying the show so far? 

Rating 8/10