I will not be watching Sleepy Hollow anymore. This summer, I finally had a chance to watch the third season of Sleepy Hollow, and it just wasn’t good. It was painfully obvious that Sleepy Hollow was trying to reboot the show after only two seasons and had no idea what was good about the prior season.
I did not know that it only took nine months to not only train to become a FBI agent, but completely skip the grunt work and become a critical part of the FBI. I love Abbie, but no. Things got even more ludicrous as Sleepy Hollow revised its own history by pretending that before Crane met Katrina, he had another anachronistic love interest in Betsy Ross who runs around in pants and barely seems to be remotely connected to colonial times.
To add insult to injury, Sleepy Hollow had an episode crossover with Bones, which was unbearably awful. Note to self: never watch Bones. Does Emily Deschanel have a weird voice or is it the flat rhythm of her delivery? If you make a Sleepy Hollow main character into an FBI agent, at least do a crossover with The X-Files and have Crane and Abbie meet Mulder and Scully. Bones?!? Least instinctual crossover ever.
The best part of the third season of Sleepy Hollow was the villain. Pandora was actually an interesting character and had a more interesting history and motivation than mommy and daddy and/or my unrequited love interest did not love me enough. She was power hungry, had an ancient Sumerian god straight from 300 as her husband and had an interesting backstory. Shannyn Sossamon became the best part of Sleepy Hollow, and the rush to end her story line was misguided at best, especially since Sleepy Hollow made a crucial mistake.
Sleepy Hollow killed off one of the main characters.
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The entire third season, Abbie had near brushes with death or oblivion, but according to the press, Beharie felt like Abbie was getting neglected and wanted out so Sleepy Hollow killed off Abbie. The only reason that most people watched Sleepy Hollow, and I am including myself in this group, was the chemistry between Abbie and Crane. We did not watch Sleepy Hollow for the painfully derivative storylines, which were already derivative when they first appeared on Supernatural. Abbie was the only person that truly connected all the storylines-the past and the present, and she gave Crane legitimacy with her professional status. She rooted the supernatural storylines in reality with her family’s legacy and her professional expertise. At the rate that Crane is going, ICE is going to grab and deport him.
Even though I am a completist, I could care less what happens next. Sleepy Hollow has no idea what it is doing, and I do not need to see the death throes of a once fun show. I will miss seeing Tom Mison’s fine self!