Sleepy Hollow Season 4

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This is one odd ball show. I don’t mean the subject matter – although it’s plenty odd – I mean the show itself. Every season Sleepy Hollow has literally re-invented itself to the point where, by this fourth season, it doesn’t have anything to do with Sleepy Hollow anymore. Season 1 was simply superb, with clever writing, mixing Biblical themes and pseudo-history along with American mythology. Sadly, after the first season, it was like the writers gave up the original premise in favor of inter-dimensional time travel, witchcraft, and a monster-of-the-week kind of thing. Not that I have anything against monsters-of-the-week, mind you, but The X Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and even Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea covered that ground already, and did a better job of it. I give Sleepy Hollow, Season 4 three stars because I paid $1.99 per episode, and to be fair, it’s not a bad time waster. But, this is one show that could have been so much better had it stayed on course.-Michael Porter

Sleepy Hollow, the 4th season, was supposed to be a fresh jumping-on point, except Fox then jumped off the show. Sucks. With you and I and the in-show characters still reeling from Abby’s death, the show writers managed to inject new energy and direction by shifting venue and introducing a batch of engaging new characters.

In Abby Mills’ absence, the world was in dire need of a new Witness. Who would’ve thunk it that it would come in the shape of an 11-year-old girl who lives in Washington, DC and whose mom just happens to be a badass agent for Homeland Security? An agent for Homeland Security who would inadvertently partner up with Ichabod Crane to combat eldritch threats?

So, Washington, DC, a new locale that couldn’t smell more of America’s tumultuous history. And a new geek squad that, in temperament and in nerd cred, is closer to a Scooby gang than anything the show’s come up with so far. I like the composition of this Team Witness: Ichabod, Jenny, that asskicker from Homeland Security (Janina Gavankar), an excitable nerd archivist (Jerry MacKinnon) and a dour, self-taught engineering prodigy (Rachel Melvin), these last two being members of Agency 355 – a.k.a. the Vault – a clandestine assembly founded by George Washington to document supernatural activity and serve as a “repository of the impossible,” with Crane’s resuscitation and assumption of his Witness role in mind. I was really liking the new group dynamics.

Toss in a sinister tech mogul (Jeremy Davies) whose Machiavellian intriguing sets up most of what happens this season. Regrettably, Davies makes for an uninteresting big bad, even with the boost of his having a resident demon for a lackey. I do think Davies is the most prominent low of this season.

Conversely, now, one of the highs. I liked it when Ichabod and Agent Diana Thomas were sharing the screen. They were good together. And just as I relished Trixie’s adorable moments with Lucifer, so did I enjoy Molly’s interactions with Ichabod. I especially liked it when she addressed him as “Old man.” Oona Yaffe, a former MasterChef Junior contestant, is sweet as middleschooler and fledgling Witness, Molly Thomas. By the way, I was so hoping for a crossover episode with Sleepy Hollow and Lucifer. That’s certainly a more sensible blend than Sleepy Hollow and Bones.

Season 4 only has thirteen episodes. I think the showrunners recognized the writing on the wall. Accordingly, they were able to put together a grip of fun episodes that touched on irresistible in-genre tropes such as time travel, alternate world dystopia, secret histories, Ichabod’s moving into his own crappy crib in DC, bargaining with the Devil, and averting the apocalypse. Still, the raddest moment may be the throwaway closing scene in the finale as Ichabod and Diana get ready to go up against a kaiju-sized kraken in the Potomac River, as AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” plays the show out. Okay, show, it’s been fun. Fox sure got mileage out of Washington Irving’s Halloween short story.

– H. Bala

I’ve just finished episode 6. I certainly miss Abby, but the new characters are interesting. Though I wish the writers showed more of the puzzles, they tend to focus more on the creatures this time around. I do very much love that Abby is gone but truly not forgotten, so many times when a character dies they are rarely spoken of again. This season stays loyal to both the last and the future whilst giving new meaning to what it is to be a witness. I do hope this new witness plays more of a role in future episodes though. Crane is hilarious and witty as ever and for that I will always love this show.

– anjie

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Actors: Tom Mison
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Dubbed: Spanish
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR Not Rated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: September 26, 2017
Run Time: 567 minutes
ASIN: B01LTICAJ0