‘Sleepy Hollow’ Recap: Following the Pied Piper To…
— October 13, 2014 50 1By NEIL GENZLINGER / ArtsBeat/The New York Times
From left, Ichabod (Tom Mison), Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and Nick (Matt Barr) search for a missing girl in “Sleepy Hollow.” Brownie Harris/Fox
Season 2, Episode 3, “Go Where I Send Thee”
The opening scene of Monday night’s “Sleepy Hollow” episode was clearly a result of one of these two writers’-room bets, or perhaps both:
– “Ten bucks to the first person who can work ‘jinba ittai’ into the show.”
– “Let’s see if we can write a car-driving scene whose dialogue and squeals can be mashed up with footage from a soft-core movie.”
In both cases, mission accomplished. Abbie (Nicole Beharie) gave Ichabod (Tom Mison) a driving lesson, and before long he was invoking jinba ittai, which the Internet tells us is a Japanese phrase embodying unity between horse and rider. The Internet also tells us that the phrase was hijacked some years ago by Mazda for its advertising. Does Mazda sponsor this show? (I sometimes accidentally forget to watch commercials.) If so, well done, product placement team!
As for the mashup, yeah, when Abbie is saying lines like “All that power is now a part of you; make it your steed” and then shrieking in a way that could suggest either terror or ecstasy, someone is inevitably going to cobble together a steamy one. Maybe someone already has.
Anyway, the episode, “Go Where I Send Thee,” turned into a worthy follow-up to last week’s home run, as Ichabod and Abbie took on a pied piper with a long history of luring children into the woods to a nasty fate. The set-up raised a brief concern that the show was veering into “Grimm” territory, but the writers gave the Pied Piper legend a Revolutionary War spin that kept the episode true to the series.
And the night’s final scene proved that this hour wasn’t a mere detour. John Noble wasn’t given much work in this installment, but the sight of him mortar-and-pestling the pied piper’s flute into a powder for as-yet unknown sinister purposes brought the night’s story into the larger framework nicely. Are we likely to see other fairy tales turn up as “Sleepy Hollow” plot lines? Maybe. Which ones? You tell me.
We also got another look at the Nick Hawley character (Matt Barr) in this episode. Has anyone figured this guy out yet? Is he good, or bad, or good-bad? Who wants to see more of him? When he was talking about the collectible value of the bone flute, I did have a vision of another possible career path for him: host of a demonic version of “Antiques Roadshow.” PBS should get right on this.
It’s also time to ask: Which “Sleepy Hollow” character are you dressing up as for Halloween? The pied piper in this episode didn’t hold still often, but I saw enough of him to think that his outfit would make a pretty cool costume.
Also: until Ichabod said it, I’d forgotten that Abbie’s full name is Grace Abigail Mills. Does this freak me out every time it turns up in the show, since I have a daughter named Abigail Grace? Yes, it does.
We’ll close with another guest appearance by Ichabod Crane as channeled by Alex Irvine, who helped Ichabod write the hilarious “Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane,” recently published by Three Rivers Press. Here are his replies to two more of your questions:
Q: Doctors recommend that men over two centuries old have a prostate exam. Have you taken care of this? Do you intend to? What is your take on the American health care system in general?
ICHABOD: What on earth is a prostate? I am no anatomist. My experience of the American health care system has thus far been limited to quarantines and insane asylums. The former seem to be executed with commendable skill, and the latter are much improved from those I observed in the London of my youth. The state of the medical profession in the 1770s inclined one to avoid the company of doctors, and I have not shed that inclination.
Q: Perhaps you’ve heard people talk about global warming. Does it feel warmer here in 2014 than it did in 1781?
ICHABOD: It is difficult for me to say. During the winters of the Revolution, one spent one’s time outside. Camps were warmed by bonfires and by bodies crushed together in tents. One could spend months without ever feeling warmed all the way through. Now, when any doorway promises heat, I suspect most Americans have quite lost the understanding of what it really means to be cold. I have heard the phrase “global warming” but am no expert on the vast engines of this planet’s seasons and climates. However, if I know one thing about scientists, it is that they love to prove each other wrong — therefore if they are largely agreed on this “global warming,” it seems to me foolish to ignore that consensus.
Reference: ArtsBeat/The New York Times / By NEIL GENZLINGER
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