6.9 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Nothing is as it seems as the second exhilarating season of the witty, addictive series begins! After Ichabod Crane risks his life to rescue Police Lt. Abbie Mills from Purgatory, the two face even greater danger as sinister forces in Sleepy Hollow gain momentum. With Katrina held captive by the Headless Horseman, and Frank Irving mysteriously back from the dead, Ichabod and Abbie must rely on instinct to know who to trust in their quest to permanently vanquish Moloch — and stop the apocalypse. Help arrives from a completely unexpected source, and the season ends with a shocking climax in this well-crafted show with plot twists, hair-raising chills and a truly unique take on American history!
Starring: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter, Lyndie GreenwoodFantasy | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Drama | Insignificant |
Adventure | Insignificant |
Mystery | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
French: DTS 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Four-disc set (4 BDs)
Region free
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Baby Boomers who are fond of cult television shows may remember a short-lived situation comedy from the 1967-68 season entitled The Second Hundred Years, where an elderly gentleman played by Arthur O’Connell was gobsmacked to discover that his father, long presumed dead in an Alaskan avalanche that had occurred long ago during the Gold Rush, had been discovered and “defrosted”, appearing in the form of the young and dashing Monte Markham. The show played with “generation gap” issues, albeit from a deliberately skewed perspective, with a “son” who looked like the “father”, and vice versa. Sleepy Hollow’s similar reanimation of Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) after an even longer bout of suspended animation than the prospector in that long ago series has allowed this reinvention of Washington Irving’s appropriately timeless tale to work up considerable whimsy and humor as Crane, very much like the prospector in fact, has had to cope with a new, modern world for which he is spectacularly ill equipped. However, in a very real way, this second season of Sleepy Hollow hews even more closely to The Second Hundred Years by offering up a major subplot featuring Ichabod’s son Henry Parrish (John Noble), a man considerably older than his putative old man. Sleepy Hollow continues to ply historical waters in much the same reconstructionist way that National Treasure 1 & 2 tried to do, reimagining “real life” events and characters in sometimes deliberately antithetical ways. Sleepy Hollow often walks right up to the precipice of outright silliness at times, but its own brand of sometimes sly humor and a generally appealing (if often overwrought) mythology continue to make the series oddly fascinating a lot of the time.
Sleepy Hollow: The Complete Second Season is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. While this digitally shot series continues to look largely fantastic in high definition, this season shows just a bit more dusting of video noise in some of the darker scenes, though nothing ever rises to really problematic levels. Once again various bells and whistles have been applied to the imagery, including digital grain, distressing and various kinds of color grading. Fine detail continues to be excellent to exceptional, especially in close-ups, though CGI and other special effects can occasionally look on the soft side.
Sleepy Hollow: The Complete Second Season features an often nicely immersive lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track. The sound designers of the series delight in offering elements like fulsome panning sounds for everything from horses galloping to cars zinging throughout contemporary Sleepy Hollow, and a number of the bigger special effects sequences offer excellent surround activity. Dialogue is very cleanly rendered and is well prioritized. Fidelity remains excellent throughout the season, and dynamic range is also unusually wide for episodic television.
Disc One:
Sleepy Hollow manages to keep its head above water (no pun intended), though its mythology is getting to a tipping point where things may simply port over into self-parody territory. Performances continue to be quite winning, and Noble pretty much walks away with this season as the machinating Henry Parrish. Certain plot developments seem to suggest that relationships between Ichabod and Abbie (at least) are changing, but the spectre of reanimation means that some characters may not in fact (to quote Monty Python) be "quite dead yet". Technical merits are strong, the supplemental package is enjoyable, and Sleepy Hollow: The Complete Second Season comes Recommended.
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