I will be honest with you, I hated all of Fox’s new comedies (although Dads is growing on me) and I am not fan of most of the fall dramas (midseason is a different story), but that all changed after I finally watched Sleepy Hollow this weekend. This show that debuts on Fox at 9p tonight is head (no pun?) and shoulders above all the other dramas for the fall.
Sleepy Hollow starts out with Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) on the battlefield in Tarrytown when a masked horseman suddenly appears out of no where. After several shots, he doesn’t go down until Crane chops off his head. Now the Headless Horseman goes down and Crane does too because he was mortally wounded in the fight.
Then the episode picks up in present day and Crane is awakened from his grave in a cave. He doesn’t know where he is and more importantly when it is. If that isn’t bad enough, there is a someone going on a killing spree by chopping people’s heads off and Crane will be the lead suspect.
Detective Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie) is a week away from leaving Sleepy Hollow for Quantico, but her plans are derailed when she starts investigating the murders of people in her hometown including her partner.
While almost no one believes that Crane didn’t commit the murders, Mills thinks he might be telling the truth when he reveals only something that she knows. So she partners up with him and they learn there is so much more to the Headless Horseman.
The show takes on the legends from the book along with the myths of the town and a story from the New Testament to give us a modern day take of a classic that will have you hooked by the opening credits.
Where the show goes from the premiere, I don’t know and I can’t wait to find out. And I am sure you will feel the same way.
But before Sleepy Hollow debuts, Bones is back on Fox at 8p. Brennan is still having issues with Booth who refused her proposal for an unknown reason. He still can’t tell her that he said no to protect the lives of innocent people that Pelant threatened to kill if he said yes. So now in order to save his relationship, he will have to find a way to tell her without Pelant finding out. Will he be able to do it or will his love be lost forever?
Freddie Prinze Jr makes his first appearance on the show, and if you blink you will miss it. Well maybe more than blink, but his recurring role will be explained tonight after his brief debut!
Tonight at 8p Bones does something it has never done before for its 150th episode, the Fox procedural tells the story through the dead person’s eyes. When a 14 year old boy’s bones are discovered in an abandoned green house, the team vow to find out who killed him. What they don’t know is that spirit has not left his body and he is watching them do everything to solve his case. Cyndi Lauper returns as Avalon the psychic and she will try to give him a voice but there isn’t much she can do. As team work tirelessly to find his killer(s), we can get a first hand look what the bones see and it is pretty incredible how they handled it. So don’t miss this must watch episode that will keep you interested from the start to the end.
Here’s to Bones’ first 150 episodes and here’s to 150 more!
Tonight at 8p on Fox Bones goes where it hasn’t gone before, 9/11. When Bones reads Phil Jackson book, she decides to bring in all of the interns to solve the cold cases. At first they all work on their own to prove that they are the best, but Vaziri has yet to solve one case. So when Brennan calls him on it, he says it is more about finding out who the person is than solving all of the cases. As he looks more into his case, he finds out that his person, a homeless man actually died on September 11, 2001. Now all of the interns and the team stop what they were doing, and focus on this case. As their quest to find answers goes on, they learn more about each other. At one point during the show, they all discuss what they were doing on that day when they heard the news. But the most meaningful moment came when Vazari explains what it meant to be a Muslim on that day and how it changed him. What he says, will really make you think. Pej Vahdat really gives it his all tonight and boy does he deliver. And so does the show that respectfully honored the day that so many have gotten wrong before. Whether you are a regular Bones watcher or not, tonight’s episode is one everyone will enjoy.
Last week during the season premiere Bones and Booth were finally reunited after being separated for 3 months and tonight at 8p we start to see the friction between them because of that. Their fighting in a way is perfect because they are dealing with a case of a murdered divorce attorney. Will looking into his murder help get them back together or will it drive them further apart?
Then at 9p The Mob Doctor airs its second episode and after last week’s series premiere ratings failure. I thought the show’s debut was so boring, I couldn’t even review it. So when Fox put the second episode online, I thought I would check it out to see if it was any better. I have to say it was even more boring. The problem with the show is doesn’t have an identity. It needs to either be a mob show and deal with mob like issues and whack people or it needs to be a medical show and let us watch them try to solve medical cases. It doesn’t do either one and because of that and lead that doesn’t make you care for her, it might be the first show cancelled and it might come as early as tomorrow. Especially if it scores even lower ratings than it did last week and the show did so without the competition of new eps of Two Broke Girls and Mike & Molly, and Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars on against it. The only hit The Mob Doctor will probably see will be itself.
When we last saw Bones, Brennan was on the run from the FBI for wrongfully being implicated in a crime she didn’t commit. Tonight at 8p the show returns to Fox and she is still on the run with her dad and her daughter Christine. Back at the Jeffersonian they are doing their best to clear Bones’ name and prove that Pelant set her up. But will they be able to do it so that Booth can be reunited with the woman he loves and their child together. A clue will lead him to her, and now he is on the run with his family. So the Jeffersonian is not only down their Bones, now they are without Booth too. Things will get complicated for them, but a tip will change everything. Is that enough to finally bring them all home or will Booth and Bones spend this season on the run? You will have to tune into this suspenseful episode to find out.
Even though Bones is entering its 8th season, it is a strong as ever if not stronger. I am so happy that this show was able to break the lead characters getting together curse! Instead of getting weaker because that sexual tension was broken, the show only got better and you don’t want to miss a single second of season 8.
