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Sleepy Hollow and TV thoughts
Sep. 17th, 2013 09:43 amOverall Sleepy Hollow was the only thing I was really interested in out of the new shows this season and the pilot aired last night. Non-spoilery review is I liked it. Considering the legend it's borrowing from (which I'm assuming everyone knows, if not I guess I'll be mentioning vague character spoilers) it's not very violent (although it does show a little, like how the Headless Horseman becomes headless, but in an almost bloodless, pg-13 kind of way.) I think the show has a lot of potential, the writers obviously have a mythology and long game in mind instead of just running with the basic set up of a story idea like some shows do. There's also Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) who is a) gorgeous and b) a decent enough actor to sell the fish-out-of-water/character-out-of-their-time trope (which is a favorite of mine) and the other lead, Nicole Beharie as Lt. Abbie Mills and she's a kick-ass WOC who does the saving instead of needing to be saved and has her own story arc that winds up being tied to other main character as opposed to her just being pulled in his wake, so I approve. The other main character is Abbie's new boss at the police department and he's played by Orlando Jones which makes this show really unusual in it's 1 white guy and 2 POCs.
Anyway, the pilot was a bit of an info dump, as pilots tend to be, but the plot was interesting, effects were decent enough and it set things up nicely so I'll be tuning in next week.
The pilot is currently free on itunes in HD and SD. Free is good! Go check it out.
Other than Sleepy Hollow I may watch the pilot for Agents of SHIELD, but I honestly doubt the show is for me. The ads I've seen leave me underwhelmed, I really don't have a ton of interest in the MCU character who's in it and it stars an actress I utterly loathe whose made me dislike/despise every character she's ever played. So... not a good sign.
There are a few other pilots I might check out for laughs, some of the period and scifi ones and Eoin Macken's (Gwaine from Merlin) but that doesn't premiere until January.
Returning shows wise... *sigh* I'm suffering through the tail end of Covert Affairs currently and never wound up turning WH13 on when the new season began this summer. Upcoming though? (Check out handy dandy grid to US fall season here)
Mondays will have Sleepy Hollow, that's probably it. Tuesdays, Supernatural (if I remember that it's airing then) and Person of Interest (also a move which I'll need to remember). I gave up on NCIS and NCIS:LA last season and am better off without them I think. Wednesdays has Arrow, I may check out Tomorrow People for the laughs though. Thursdays, Elementary, White Collar and Covert Affairs (two moved show *ugh*, not sure I'll keep watching them though). On Fridays I'll watch the first episode or two of Hawaii Five-0 but mostly just to laugh at how horrible it's become. Grimm is on at the same time and kid likes it so when it premieres (not until late Oct) I'll be watching that instead. Fridays also has Haven, a show everyone in my house watches and likes.
Eventually Teen Wolf will return and I will probably also watch Hannibal when it comes back as well, but that depends.
So, that's TV for me. I tend to forget to write up episode review posts and instead chatting with people on theirs but I'll try to be better about that this year.
Anyway, the pilot was a bit of an info dump, as pilots tend to be, but the plot was interesting, effects were decent enough and it set things up nicely so I'll be tuning in next week.
The pilot is currently free on itunes in HD and SD. Free is good! Go check it out.
Other than Sleepy Hollow I may watch the pilot for Agents of SHIELD, but I honestly doubt the show is for me. The ads I've seen leave me underwhelmed, I really don't have a ton of interest in the MCU character who's in it and it stars an actress I utterly loathe whose made me dislike/despise every character she's ever played. So... not a good sign.
There are a few other pilots I might check out for laughs, some of the period and scifi ones and Eoin Macken's (Gwaine from Merlin) but that doesn't premiere until January.
Returning shows wise... *sigh* I'm suffering through the tail end of Covert Affairs currently and never wound up turning WH13 on when the new season began this summer. Upcoming though? (Check out handy dandy grid to US fall season here)
Mondays will have Sleepy Hollow, that's probably it. Tuesdays, Supernatural (if I remember that it's airing then) and Person of Interest (also a move which I'll need to remember). I gave up on NCIS and NCIS:LA last season and am better off without them I think. Wednesdays has Arrow, I may check out Tomorrow People for the laughs though. Thursdays, Elementary, White Collar and Covert Affairs (two moved show *ugh*, not sure I'll keep watching them though). On Fridays I'll watch the first episode or two of Hawaii Five-0 but mostly just to laugh at how horrible it's become. Grimm is on at the same time and kid likes it so when it premieres (not until late Oct) I'll be watching that instead. Fridays also has Haven, a show everyone in my house watches and likes.
Eventually Teen Wolf will return and I will probably also watch Hannibal when it comes back as well, but that depends.
So, that's TV for me. I tend to forget to write up episode review posts and instead chatting with people on theirs but I'll try to be better about that this year.
