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"The new fall TV season kicked off officially last night with Fox&amp;#x27;s big swing of a period drama: Sleepy Hollow is a crime drama that transports Ichabod Crane (you remember Ichabod Crane from fourth-grade English class, right?) and the Headless Horseman to modern day. What? I thought when I first heard about this. No. I&amp;#x27;m not getting invested in something that silly. Then I saw Tom Mison and was like well...maybe...in the name of literature...I shall give it a chance. (It doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt that the female lead, cub cop Nicole Beharie, has been a minor obsession of mine since 42.) And though my reasons for giving Sleepy Hollow a chance were maybe not the deepest, I was actually pleasantly surprised by the show. I&amp;#x27;ll say this for it: For a show with such a fantastical concept, Sleepy Hollow feels unexpectedly grounded. They don&amp;#x27;t belabor the whole &amp;quot;huh? But how!&amp;quot; aspect, which I like; we&amp;#x27;re all here, we&amp;#x27;ve all committed to watch this, it&amp;#x27;s OK not to spend episode upon episode just addressing the fact that this is a crazy stretch of the imagination. Perhaps because the writers know this&amp;amp;#8212;we&amp;#x27;re all already willing to indulge in a time-traveling situation&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;#x27;re also pretty free with the slightly-cheesy-but-still-fun drama stuff. Like Beharie&amp;#x27;s whole schtick of being a tough, fast-rising rookie detective who turns down a big out-of-town promotion to stay here and see the Ichabod thing through. (Also: She&amp;#x27;s got a secret in her past. Naturally!) Or the delightful scenes in which Beharie&amp;#x27;s and Mison&amp;#x27;s characters banter over the modern-day stuff you&amp;#x27;d imagine might awe a centuries-old dude in a minuteman uniform. It&amp;#x27;s like Lethal Weapon meets Downton Abbey in that way. So I&amp;#x27;m gonna keep watching Sleepy Hollow for now, and see how the next few episodes go: And from a place of loving cheesiness but also being cautious, I&amp;#x27;m gonna give it a B-. or, you know, this dog who&amp;#x27;s generously giving the Headless Horseman a lift: Did you watch Sleepy Hollow? (According to the ratings, a lot of people did.) What did you think? Photo: FOX/Amazon"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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