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As people who follow me on twitter know, I kind of fell head over heals for Sleepy Hollow. The series is very loosely based on the short story, and featured Ichabod Crane being a Revolutionary War hero who dies and is resurrected in the present day to fight the headless horseman, who has also been resurrected in the present. Ichabod is joined by Abbie Mills, a police lieutenant who's about a foot-and-a-half shorter than him (seriously, the show wants to make sure we never forget that), who met a demon in the woods when she was a teenager and has spent the rest of her life trying to forget that.
It's cheesy and the plot holes are ginormous, but I adore the characters and, while the plot makes it hard to take it seriously, the show really knows its visual gothic tropes, and revels in them. It also often reminds me of shoujo manga in some ways, probably because it's like something Kaori Yuki would come up with. Only somewhat more logical, with way way way less misogyny, and less incest.
( spoilers )
I also watched the pilot of Witches of East End, which is based on books by Melissa de la Cruz that I haven't read. The pilot was a bit slow to get going and rather silly in large places, but I liked it a lot. Julia Ormond and Madchen Amick are sisters who are semi-immortal witches named Joanna and Wendy who have been estranged for the last century when Wendy finds Joanna again after learning someone is trying to kill Joanna. Joanna also has two daughters, Freya and Ingrid, who don't know they're witches. Freya is recently engaged, but keeps having sex dreams about her fiance's estranged brother, Killian. Estranged siblings appears to be a Thing here.
( mild spoiler for the Freya/Killian subplot )
The witches are falling a bit into stereotypes-Joanna is serious and responsible and wants a normal life, while Wendy is a Bad Girl who fully embraces her witch nature and has wild adventures, Freya is freespirited and a little wild and dreamy and impulsive, while Ingrid is serious and cynical and logical-but I like them and their interactions. Very cheesy and soapy, but I liked it and am interested in the plot, though even if I hadn't cared much for it, I probably would have stuck around for a few more episodes for Madchen Amick and Julia Ormond.
It's cheesy and the plot holes are ginormous, but I adore the characters and, while the plot makes it hard to take it seriously, the show really knows its visual gothic tropes, and revels in them. It also often reminds me of shoujo manga in some ways, probably because it's like something Kaori Yuki would come up with. Only somewhat more logical, with way way way less misogyny, and less incest.
( spoilers )I also watched the pilot of Witches of East End, which is based on books by Melissa de la Cruz that I haven't read. The pilot was a bit slow to get going and rather silly in large places, but I liked it a lot. Julia Ormond and Madchen Amick are sisters who are semi-immortal witches named Joanna and Wendy who have been estranged for the last century when Wendy finds Joanna again after learning someone is trying to kill Joanna. Joanna also has two daughters, Freya and Ingrid, who don't know they're witches. Freya is recently engaged, but keeps having sex dreams about her fiance's estranged brother, Killian. Estranged siblings appears to be a Thing here.
( mild spoiler for the Freya/Killian subplot )The witches are falling a bit into stereotypes-Joanna is serious and responsible and wants a normal life, while Wendy is a Bad Girl who fully embraces her witch nature and has wild adventures, Freya is freespirited and a little wild and dreamy and impulsive, while Ingrid is serious and cynical and logical-but I like them and their interactions. Very cheesy and soapy, but I liked it and am interested in the plot, though even if I hadn't cared much for it, I probably would have stuck around for a few more episodes for Madchen Amick and Julia Ormond.
