Fox is reviving a few pieces of American folklore - preserved in short story form by nineteenth-century writer Washington Irving - for its new series "Sleepy Hollow", which premieres this Monday evening. The series is a modern-day retelling which mashes up two of Irving's stories, one about Rip Van Winkle - who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes to find the world utterly changed around him - and another about Ichabod Crane, the Revolutionary War soldier and headless horseman of so many Halloween-themed doormats. Tune in tonight at 9 p.m. EST to catch it on Fox.
This time around, it's Ichabod himself (Tom Mison "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen") who has taken the long snooze, and after he wakes up from it 240 years later, he finds the world on the brink of destruction and discovers that he's the last hope of humanity: the Redcoat he beheaded while in battle has come back from the dead to exact revenge. It happens that that headless Redcoat may or may not be one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. So he teams up with detective Abbie (Nicole Beharie, "Shame", "American Violet") in order to unravel a mystery that goes all the way back to the founding fathers. There's witch covens, demons, conspiracies, a magic Bible belonging to George Washington, and plenty of plot twists thrown in for good measure, too.
Viewers will meet Ichabod right in the midst of Revolutionary War battle, as he tries to take down the Redcoat, and later he'll go to sleep in an underground cave. When he awakes in 2013, the authorities will take him in, since someone's been decapitating people. He's eventually exonerated, but at some point he will come into contact with a headless person who also wields a shotgun, because just because someone's headless and still living doesn't necessarily make them capable of doing you harm.
This fun and absurd creature of a show is the work of executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who you might recognize for a number of other series, including "Alias", "Fringe" and "Hawaii Five-O" as well as the "Star Trek" and "Transformers" franchises. In addition to Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones (who plays Abbie's boss) and Katia Winter (Ichabod's wife Katrina) round out the cast. If you're into a lot of mythology and plots which are crazy enough to keep you paying attention and probably to make you laugh, check it out on Fox tonight.
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