Sleepy Hollow Season 4

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.

***SPOILER*** for how Season 3 ends. Careful.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.

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.

Given how season 3 ended I went back and forth on whether or not to get this season to start with. To me the series was always about the 2 main characters and how they interacted. I did enjoy the new characters and it would have been an interesting concept to start the series with. However I find it hard to enjoy such a drastic change in the premise of the show. If I had it to do again I would have just ended watching the series at season 3 and not watched this one.

I liked this season better than the third but they really screwed with this show. First getting rid of Nicole Baharie, second getting rid of the headless horsemen (Neil Jackson) - more could have been done with his character, third getting rid of the storyline of the apocalypse (the 4 horsemen), fourth not letting the new captain in on the secret, fifth getting rid of Orlando Jones and Zach Appelman, sixth leaving you hanging after finding out their father knew about the secret since their mother "took ill", seventh FOR LEAVING SLEEPY HOLLOW!!!!! Good Lord, they killed what could have been an excellent series!!!!! :-(

I think they did a great job transitioning the focus of the characters. I do miss Abbie Mills but they've introduced a lot of interesting new people. I will have to get all 4 seasons to keep up on the back story.

I am very disappointed that this series has been cancelled. It seemed promising even after one main character left. I like the newbies as well as the two from the original cast.

Why do they get rid of the good stuff?

Fue la mejor manera de conseguirla. Por sólo 378 pesos, mucho más barata que en todos los demás sitios. No la han editado en México y dudo lo hagan. Dudaba del doblaje pero es en español latino DD 5.1 (los subtítulos de igual forma). Indica que es región 1 y en realidad también es región 4, como las anteriores.

Die lang erwartete Fortsetzung der Serie ist im Bild wie im Ton einwandfrei. Das fehlen der zweiten Zeugin ist am Anfang gewöhnungsbedürftig aber wird durch "die neuen im Team" bald kompensiert. Macht also genauso Spaß wie die Staffeln zuvor.

wenn auch nicht mehr in der gewohnten umgebung angesiedelt.man muss sich erstmal darauf einstellen, dass eine der hauptpersonenfehlt, aber danach kommt man durch die durchgehend spannende storyvoll auf seine kosten!

Schade, aber die letzte Staffel ist irgendwie billig geraten...als ob man sich die xte Wiederholung von "Charmed" ansehen müsste, und dabei nur noch auf die üblen Effekte achtet...naja, schade ums Geld, die Zeit und eine eigentlich coole Serie.

Endlich habe ich die DvD .Ich bin Traurig das es die letzten Staffel gewesen ist.Die Serie hatte alles was mir gefällt.Mystik,Spannung ,Witz und Geheimnis.Also einfach toll