Sleepy Hollow Pilot Review – Some Spoilers

If you are the sort of person that hates when producers, writer or showrunners change the source material from which their shows are based on, then this show isn’t for you. I personally felt refreshed after seeing the pilot, I liked the premise for the show and the casting I think is spot on and although the mythological/religious part with the Devil, The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and the end of days is a huge departure from Washington Irving’s original book it somehow fits very well and surprised me.

Sleepy Hollow has a detective/supernatural/biblical/cop buddy type feel to it, like Grimm, Once Upon A time or Supernatural, which I’m sure, will be more and more developed has the show progresses. There are also some comic aspects to it, mostly coming from the “struggle” of Crane adapting to these new times.

One other thing that surprised me was that most things were explained right of the bat. How Crane survived all this years, his link to the headless horseman, the headless horseman, the factions of good or evil, it was straight to the point, no fuss no muss and that is something that you don’t usually see in pilots, especially in these kinds of shows.

Bringing Clancy Brown and John Cho and then killing them off, leaving Tom Milson (Ichabod Crane) and Nicole Beharie (Detective Abbie Mills) to lead the show was an interesting choice, as was having the lost Orlando Jones in the show.

But not all is sunshine and roses, having the Headless Horseman being like a vampire and not liking sunlight or Crane and the Horseman being connected by blood thus making Crane immortal or even having his wife Katrina stuck in netherworld seemed a little bit to forced and last minute alterations.

Regardless of that Sleepy Hollow is as “real” as having a teenage girl killing vampires or having all fairy tales characters living in the same village, therefore I’m hooked and can’t wait to see the next episode.

I give the pilot 8 out of 10

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