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Sleepy Hollow Has Been Mercifully Decapitated
Ichabod goes to join the restless bones of his own TV show. Image: Fox
After a turgid attempt to retool itself after an awful third season that saw the loss of one of the show’s most important elements in the form of Nicole Beharie’s Abbie Mills, the desperate, confused mess that was Sleepy Hollow is no more. Fox has officially canceled the show after four seasons.
The cancellation will come as no surprise to long-time viewers, as even getting a fourth season of the show was a significant surprise after viewing figures plummeted during a very messy third season—which ended with the shock killing off of co-lead Beharie’s character in the season three finale, outraging fans even further.
With the loss of Beharie—and with her, the show’s beloved chemistry between Abbie and Tom Mison’s Ichabod—and even the show’s primary antagonist, season four attempted to rework itself by throwing a bunch of new characters into the mix, an uncertain new partner for Ichabod to work with, and bizarrely, by moving the show out of its titular location. Suffice to say, this clearly didn’t stymie the show’s ever-downward spiral.
Sleepy Hollow started out as one of the biggest surprises on TV when it kicked off in 2013, mainly thanks to the remarkable charm of Beharie and Mison whenever they were on screen together. Sadly, the show quickly broke down in its second season, and by the third, not even the chemistry between Abbie and Ichabod could save the show from the convoluted mess it had turned into.
Farewell, Sleepy Hollow. We will remember you for what you once were, rather than what you became. [Deadline]
Ichabod goes to join the restless bones of his own TV show. Image: Fox
After a turgid attempt to retool itself after an awful third season that saw the loss of one of the show’s most important elements in the form of Nicole Beharie’s Abbie Mills, the desperate, confused mess that was Sleepy Hollow is no more. Fox has officially canceled the show after four seasons.
The cancellation will come as no surprise to long-time viewers, as even getting a fourth season of the show was a significant surprise after viewing figures plummeted during a very messy third season—which ended with the shock killing off of co-lead Beharie’s character in the season three finale, outraging fans even further.
With the loss of Beharie—and with her, the show’s beloved chemistry between Abbie and Tom Mison’s Ichabod—and even the show’s primary antagonist, season four attempted to rework itself by throwing a bunch of new characters into the mix, an uncertain new partner for Ichabod to work with, and bizarrely, by moving the show out of its titular location. Suffice to say, this clearly didn’t stymie the show’s ever-downward spiral.
Sleepy Hollow started out as one of the biggest surprises on TV when it kicked off in 2013, mainly thanks to the remarkable charm of Beharie and Mison whenever they were on screen together. Sadly, the show quickly broke down in its second season, and by the third, not even the chemistry between Abbie and Ichabod could save the show from the convoluted mess it had turned into.
Farewell, Sleepy Hollow. We will remember you for what you once were, rather than what you became. [Deadline]
‘Sleepy Hollow’ Canceled at Fox After Four Seasons
FOX
MAY 9, 2017 | 06:12PM PT
Hold onto your heads, “Sleepy Hollow” viewers: Fox has cancelled the series, after four seasons, Variety has learned.
Though the show was a buzzy fan-favorite series, the cancellation comes as little surprise, as the supernatural drama wrapped its lowest-rated season yet this March. Season 4 was ordered with a shorter run of 13 episodes, after every other season had spanned 18 episodes.
The fantasy-cop drama saw its ratings plummet in season four, averaging a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 1.9 million total viewers — down 40% in the demo and and 37% in viewers from season three.
The show had also undergone significant changes over the years both in front of and behind the camera. Following the second season, showrunner Mark Goffman exited the show and was replaced by Clifton Campbell. After the third season, star Nicole Beharie exited the series, posing a new creative direction for the show’s fourth season, though critics had praised the on-screen chemistry of Beharie and co-star Tom Mison, throughout the first three seasons.
Based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the Fox series was created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberti Orci, Phillip Iscove and Len Wiseman.
FOX
MAY 9, 2017 | 06:12PM PT
Hold onto your heads, “Sleepy Hollow” viewers: Fox has cancelled the series, after four seasons, Variety has learned.
Though the show was a buzzy fan-favorite series, the cancellation comes as little surprise, as the supernatural drama wrapped its lowest-rated season yet this March. Season 4 was ordered with a shorter run of 13 episodes, after every other season had spanned 18 episodes.
The fantasy-cop drama saw its ratings plummet in season four, averaging a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 1.9 million total viewers — down 40% in the demo and and 37% in viewers from season three.
The show had also undergone significant changes over the years both in front of and behind the camera. Following the second season, showrunner Mark Goffman exited the show and was replaced by Clifton Campbell. After the third season, star Nicole Beharie exited the series, posing a new creative direction for the show’s fourth season, though critics had praised the on-screen chemistry of Beharie and co-star Tom Mison, throughout the first three seasons.
Based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the Fox series was created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberti Orci, Phillip Iscove and Len Wiseman.
Off With Its Head!: 'Sleepy Hollow' Finally Gets Cancelled After Four Seasons
May 10, 2017 at 17:56PM
[Credit: Fox]
ByFranco Gucci, writer at CREATORS.CO
I´m an avid movie fan whose favorite movie ever is Back to the Future. I´m the type of person that if I like a TV show, I´ll binge watch it,
#SleepyHollow became an instant hit during its first season, creating a loyal fanbase who loved to come back every week to see Ichabod Crane and his partners get up to their usual mystical shenanigans. Unfortunately, it experienced some ups and downs in recent years. In 2016, one of its main stars, #NicoleBeharie, who played FBI agent (and Biblical witness) Abbie Mills, decided to leave the show. That sent the show into a downward spiral as fans jumped off the bandwagon.
Adding to the trouble, the once strong series had been steadily falling in the ratings. To put it into perspective, the Season 4 finale had a viewership of 1.72, almost a million less than its previous season closer and over five million less than the Season 1 finale. All of those developments were bad signs. Finally, it's been made official.
Sleepy Hollow Is Officially Coming To An End
After a long period of uncertainty over the show getting renewed for Season 5, its co-creator, Phillip Iscove, took to Twitter to reveal that #SleepyHollowSeason4 (which last aired in March), was our last trip into the mystical exploration of New York City.
In his message (which was broken up into various tweets), Iscove thanked fans and the entire crew of the series for their loyalty and hard work:
"It's a sad day but in the end, Sleepy Hollow was an absolute dream for me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to every actor, writer, director, producer, and incredible crew on all their endless hard work. But it's the fans that made the show truly come alive and to them I owe the biggest debt. Thank you so much! I love all the Sleepyheads!
That's unfortunate. Surprisingly though, there are mixed feelings regarding this announcement. Some fans are devastated about the show's fate, while others are happy it's finally ending. A common argument is the show's level of quality drastically dropping after its first season ended. Still, whichever side you're on, as with any TV series that ends prematurely, you may be wondering...
What About That Cliffhanger?
The Season 4 finale saw #IchabodCrane sell his soul to the devil to stop the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. At the very end of the episode, once he managed to save the world, he was finally made an American citizen. But one huge problem remained: His misplaced soul. What would he do about it? What happened after that? According to our hero, he'd figure it out. That's a weirdly frustrating ending. What happens after that?
Back in March, executive producer Raven Metzner gave an interview to TV Insider after the emotion-filled Season 4 finale aired. There, he revealed that a #SleepyHollowSeason5 pickup was never guaranteed, and so the episode was crafted as a satisfying ending for the show:
"I think we wanted to make sure we were able to, in a satisfying way, bring Ichabod Crane to a place where he had reached a landmark goal. We had always talked about Crane becoming an American citizen. And the idea that he would finally find both a family and a larger place for himself in the world."
[Credit: Fox]
That will probably be satisfying to hear for some Sleepy Hollow fans. Unfortunately, the finale was also crafted as an open-ended chapter should the story have continued. If that would have been the case, we would have gotten a pretty interesting storyline that centered on Ichabod trying to get out of the deal he made:
"But at the same time, we wanted to complicate that, and messy it up a little bit, because if we were able to come back, we'd have something to look forward to Crane having to figure out. That's where the whole idea of the deal he makes, that puts him in jeopardy. And also, in writing that last scene, we had to write a careful line, because we understand that if the series comes back, that's a real awesome problem. But if it doesn't, I think we all believe and know as Crane says, he will find a way to figure it out."
So, while sadly it looks like we won't get to see a continuation of Sleepy Hollow, its creative minds did give us some closure. Despite not seeing how it will happen, we should rest assured by the fact that Ichabod will retrieve his soul at some point and will be living his dream.
May 10, 2017 at 17:56PM
[Credit: Fox]
ByFranco Gucci, writer at CREATORS.CO
I´m an avid movie fan whose favorite movie ever is Back to the Future. I´m the type of person that if I like a TV show, I´ll binge watch it,
#SleepyHollow became an instant hit during its first season, creating a loyal fanbase who loved to come back every week to see Ichabod Crane and his partners get up to their usual mystical shenanigans. Unfortunately, it experienced some ups and downs in recent years. In 2016, one of its main stars, #NicoleBeharie, who played FBI agent (and Biblical witness) Abbie Mills, decided to leave the show. That sent the show into a downward spiral as fans jumped off the bandwagon.
Adding to the trouble, the once strong series had been steadily falling in the ratings. To put it into perspective, the Season 4 finale had a viewership of 1.72, almost a million less than its previous season closer and over five million less than the Season 1 finale. All of those developments were bad signs. Finally, it's been made official.
Sleepy Hollow Is Officially Coming To An End
After a long period of uncertainty over the show getting renewed for Season 5, its co-creator, Phillip Iscove, took to Twitter to reveal that #SleepyHollowSeason4 (which last aired in March), was our last trip into the mystical exploration of New York City.
In his message (which was broken up into various tweets), Iscove thanked fans and the entire crew of the series for their loyalty and hard work:
"It's a sad day but in the end, Sleepy Hollow was an absolute dream for me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to every actor, writer, director, producer, and incredible crew on all their endless hard work. But it's the fans that made the show truly come alive and to them I owe the biggest debt. Thank you so much! I love all the Sleepyheads!
That's unfortunate. Surprisingly though, there are mixed feelings regarding this announcement. Some fans are devastated about the show's fate, while others are happy it's finally ending. A common argument is the show's level of quality drastically dropping after its first season ended. Still, whichever side you're on, as with any TV series that ends prematurely, you may be wondering...
What About That Cliffhanger?
The Season 4 finale saw #IchabodCrane sell his soul to the devil to stop the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. At the very end of the episode, once he managed to save the world, he was finally made an American citizen. But one huge problem remained: His misplaced soul. What would he do about it? What happened after that? According to our hero, he'd figure it out. That's a weirdly frustrating ending. What happens after that?
Back in March, executive producer Raven Metzner gave an interview to TV Insider after the emotion-filled Season 4 finale aired. There, he revealed that a #SleepyHollowSeason5 pickup was never guaranteed, and so the episode was crafted as a satisfying ending for the show:
"I think we wanted to make sure we were able to, in a satisfying way, bring Ichabod Crane to a place where he had reached a landmark goal. We had always talked about Crane becoming an American citizen. And the idea that he would finally find both a family and a larger place for himself in the world."
[Credit: Fox]
That will probably be satisfying to hear for some Sleepy Hollow fans. Unfortunately, the finale was also crafted as an open-ended chapter should the story have continued. If that would have been the case, we would have gotten a pretty interesting storyline that centered on Ichabod trying to get out of the deal he made:
"But at the same time, we wanted to complicate that, and messy it up a little bit, because if we were able to come back, we'd have something to look forward to Crane having to figure out. That's where the whole idea of the deal he makes, that puts him in jeopardy. And also, in writing that last scene, we had to write a careful line, because we understand that if the series comes back, that's a real awesome problem. But if it doesn't, I think we all believe and know as Crane says, he will find a way to figure it out."
So, while sadly it looks like we won't get to see a continuation of Sleepy Hollow, its creative minds did give us some closure. Despite not seeing how it will happen, we should rest assured by the fact that Ichabod will retrieve his soul at some point and will be living his dream.
'Sleepy Hollow' Season 4 Finale: What Did Ichabod Do?
Marisa Roffman March 31, 2017 10:00 pm
SPOILER ALERTTina Rowden/Fox
(L-R): Seychelle Gabriel, Lyndie Greenwood, Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar, Rachel Melvin and Jerry MacKinnon in the "Freedom" episode of Sleepy Hollow
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the March 31 season finale of Sleepy Hollow, "Freedom."]
Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) made a deal with the devil in the Season 4 finale.
With the immortal Dreyfuss (Jeremy Davies) bringing the Horsemen of the Apocalypse into the mix, Crane and Lara (Seychelle Gabriel) traveled to Hell to speak with the devil, who originally struck a deal with Dreyfuss for his soul upon the tech genius' death. (Dreyfuss bypassed his commitment by becoming immortal.) Ichabod hoped he could convince the devil to assist them in their fight against Dreyfuss, and his pitch was simple: Why should the devil reward his bad behavior?
When Ichabod and Lara returned, they had the tool to render Dreyfuss mortal; the team fought off the Horsemen (including Ichabod convincing War/Henry (John Noble) to let them pass, with Crane convincing his son that he should want to be free) and were able to kill Dreyfuss, who was holding the president hostage.
(L-R): Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar and Lyndie Greenwood in Sleepy Hollow
Team Witness was able to celebrate the victory with a few milestones: the team would report directly to the president going forward; and Ichabod was made a citizen of the U.S.
However, Ichabod had his own bit of bad news to share with Diana: in order to get the means to defeat Dreyfuss, he had to bargain away his own soul to the devil.
Sleepy Hollow executive producer (and writer of the hour) Raven Metzner broke down the finale's biggest twists.
The show was in the position of having to produce a finale without knowing whether it would come back for another season. What were the challenges in crafting this hour, specifically because you had to both wrap things up and leave it open to continue?
I think we wanted to make sure we were able to, in a satisfying way, bring Ichabod Crane to a place where he had reached a landmark goal. We had always talked about Crane becoming an American citizen. And the idea that he would finally find both a family and a larger place for himself in the world.
But at the same time, we wanted to complicate that, and messy it up a little bit, because if we were able to come back, we'd have something to look forward to Crane having to figure out. That's where the whole idea of the deal he makes, that puts him in jeopardy. And also, in writing that last scene, we had to write a careful line, because we understand that if the series comes back, that's a real awesome problem. But if it doesn't, I think we all believe and know as Crane says, he will find a way to figure it out.
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Plus, can Henry (John Noble) be trusted?
How concerned should fans be, especially given Dreyfuss' confidence in being able to skirt the deal and his ultimate failure?
I know! There's definitely some real jeopardy. Crane has, over the course of these seasons, done the impossible. His former wife was trapped in purgatory, and he got her out. His partner was trapped in the catacombs and missing, and he found a way to be a part of helping her to escape. As he says earlier in the episode, there are many challenges he's faced and places he's gone that were impossible. I think it's a balance. And with that last monster shot you have there, you wanted to present a challenge we've never seen on the show. At the same time, I think you would imagine, somehow, some way, they'll find a way to stop it, you know?
How did the writers refer to the devil we met in the episode?
We called him a devil or the devil. We've gone back and forth on this many times. The mythology of the show has so much of the apocalypse and all of that. He says himself, and it's one thing [executive producer] Albert Kim really wanted to make sure we got in there, "I'm the devil you know and many you don't." On this show, there are many different myriad of demons. Molach was some sort of demonic creature. He's calling himself the devil, and he's the devil who made a deal with Malcolm Dreyfuss.
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What went into crafting that devil character?
It all goes back to [our use of] "Sympathy for the Devil," and we had done other versions of it. I was at a cocktail party, and they loved the different versions of "Sympathy," and he was like, "How are you going to top that? You've already had orchestra, you already had a female singer cover it. What's the next version?" And that stuck in my mind, and at some point in the [writers'] room, I came in, and I said, "The only way to top that is to have him meet the actual devil." We just thought it would be a fun and interesting new adversary to introduce. If the show comes back, it's great to know there's that character that was the voice behind Dreyfuss; he's a real entity. If not, it's fun to finally have a moment where he's face-to-face with the so-called ultimate evil.
The look is something that popped in my head, and you would see him, and at first he would present as a very elegant and interesting gentleman, and then when he turned his face, it would be ruined. Originally, he was going to have maggots crawling on his face. At first, our makeup effects person came up with that beautiful cracked skin, half-face, and then our VFX department augmented it with the blood and flames. Once we saw the blood and flames, we were like, forget the maggots, let's go for the blood.
Russell Fine directed the episode, who I think just did such an amazing job. Because Malcolm was so corporate, I thought maybe we'd see him in a corporate office. But Russell and I were talking all the way through the process of writing the script, and he was like, "Listen, I think I found Hell." And I said, "Really?" He said, "Yeah, let me send you a picture." He sent me this picture of that elevator with the lights and the scene from below, and he goes, "What do you think?" And I was like, "Yep!" [Laughs.]
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'We wanted to make sure it was shocking and bold in the tradition of big 'Sleepy Hollow' twists,' executive producer Albert Kim explains.
Jobe (Kamar de los Reyes) betrayed Dreyfuss to help Team Witness. He took Dreyfuss' soul down to Hell, but is there room for him to come back in the future?
I loved the Jobe character. We talked about a lot in the room—I know the fans really liked him and were eager for more about him. We made a choice to play him a little more mysterious. Every once in a while, we showed a peak into he and Dreyfuss had built a relationship throughout the years. That Dreyfuss had come to really come to rely on Jobe; they would go out to steak dinners.
But, in the end, really, Jobe was given to Dreyfuss. That was the deal that Dreyfuss made in order to become successful was he would have this demon at his beck and call. But when the contract was up, Jobe reverts back to his original owner. We love the actor. Kamar is fantastic and brought so much to the character. He's definitely still out there. If we came back, I'd love to see the character come back.
What was the genesis of having the team report to the president going forward? And how might that change things if there is a Season 5?
It all comes back to the longer arc for Crane and also Diana. Crane's legacy, the vault, which we now learn was a combination of Benjamin Banneker's dream and Washington's support…his citizenship and finding a place in the world—it's a neat place to bring him to if it's the end of the series. If there is a further season, it places him into a leadership role with an interesting group of people he has gathered along the way.
And for Diana, she's had an interesting arc over the season: to be drawn into this organization because of the death of her partner and to find out her daughter is this Witness, and to be released in this episode of her responsibility, but to come to a place where she is choose to battle against evil in a real official capacity.
I think, also, part of that as well, would be Jenny. I toward the end of the season, Jenny was wrestling with if she would stay or go. But I think, in the end, it would be everyone united—they would be officially under the vault, which they've all unofficially been this season.
Henry also opted to stand down. He's not a good guy, but is there room for him to revisit Sleepy Hollow going forward?
It was interesting: The title of the episode is "Freedom." The conflict between Henry and Crane is such a deep one, and so based around their distant ideas of who is at fault for Henry's childhood, which Crane has said many times was not his fault. He was under the ground when it happened. And Henry's inability to let that go.
Henry has grown over these iterations into this creature of real anger. I think by finally regaining and embodying the armor of War, he believes his role is one of destruction and bringing strife. He really has embraced that. I think the interesting thing there is the question that Crane poses to him; it really goes to Henry's past mythology in the show: Henry killed Moloch. He didn't want to have Moloch lording over him. He didn't want to be anyone's servant. In Season 2, Episode 17, he wanted to raise this nation of witches where witches would be free. He is a character who would not want to submit to anyone's tyranny. I think Crane pointing it out to him is the only way Henry would stand down.
I like that moment, too, because there's so much cool battling in the episode. It begins as a battle of wills and a choice between the two of them and Henry's anger at the top of the episode. And then it has the resolution between the two of them when Henry, instead of choosing to shoot the gun, metaphorically, instead he stands down.
Seychelle Gabriel and Tom Mison in the "Freedom" episode of Sleepy Hollow
Lara, the grownup version of Molly, also opted to leave the team—and Ichabod said goodbye to his fellow Witness with a deep bow. What led to that decision?
We were so happy to have Seychelle join us for these episodes. We adored working with her. So did Tom. We really felt like having her, introducing this idea there's an evolution of the Molly character, who would be able to literally be a Witness who could fight alongside Crane, and also has a deep emotional bond to both Diana and Molly, is a great character we could use if we came back. If not, it's nice to know there are these two Witnesses out there in the world who have this connection.
The bow was 100 percent Tom Mison. He is very judicious about the bows that Crane will do. In the moment, on the day, he came up to me and said, "I think in this moment I should bow." And I said, "Please do, we'd love to see it." That lovely moment was 100 percent him.
Marisa Roffman March 31, 2017 10:00 pm
(L-R): Seychelle Gabriel, Lyndie Greenwood, Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar, Rachel Melvin and Jerry MacKinnon in the "Freedom" episode of Sleepy Hollow
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the March 31 season finale of Sleepy Hollow, "Freedom."]
Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) made a deal with the devil in the Season 4 finale.
With the immortal Dreyfuss (Jeremy Davies) bringing the Horsemen of the Apocalypse into the mix, Crane and Lara (Seychelle Gabriel) traveled to Hell to speak with the devil, who originally struck a deal with Dreyfuss for his soul upon the tech genius' death. (Dreyfuss bypassed his commitment by becoming immortal.) Ichabod hoped he could convince the devil to assist them in their fight against Dreyfuss, and his pitch was simple: Why should the devil reward his bad behavior?
When Ichabod and Lara returned, they had the tool to render Dreyfuss mortal; the team fought off the Horsemen (including Ichabod convincing War/Henry (John Noble) to let them pass, with Crane convincing his son that he should want to be free) and were able to kill Dreyfuss, who was holding the president hostage.
(L-R): Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar and Lyndie Greenwood in Sleepy Hollow
Team Witness was able to celebrate the victory with a few milestones: the team would report directly to the president going forward; and Ichabod was made a citizen of the U.S.
However, Ichabod had his own bit of bad news to share with Diana: in order to get the means to defeat Dreyfuss, he had to bargain away his own soul to the devil.
Sleepy Hollow executive producer (and writer of the hour) Raven Metzner broke down the finale's biggest twists.
The show was in the position of having to produce a finale without knowing whether it would come back for another season. What were the challenges in crafting this hour, specifically because you had to both wrap things up and leave it open to continue?
I think we wanted to make sure we were able to, in a satisfying way, bring Ichabod Crane to a place where he had reached a landmark goal. We had always talked about Crane becoming an American citizen. And the idea that he would finally find both a family and a larger place for himself in the world.
But at the same time, we wanted to complicate that, and messy it up a little bit, because if we were able to come back, we'd have something to look forward to Crane having to figure out. That's where the whole idea of the deal he makes, that puts him in jeopardy. And also, in writing that last scene, we had to write a careful line, because we understand that if the series comes back, that's a real awesome problem. But if it doesn't, I think we all believe and know as Crane says, he will find a way to figure it out.
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Plus, can Henry (John Noble) be trusted?
How concerned should fans be, especially given Dreyfuss' confidence in being able to skirt the deal and his ultimate failure?
I know! There's definitely some real jeopardy. Crane has, over the course of these seasons, done the impossible. His former wife was trapped in purgatory, and he got her out. His partner was trapped in the catacombs and missing, and he found a way to be a part of helping her to escape. As he says earlier in the episode, there are many challenges he's faced and places he's gone that were impossible. I think it's a balance. And with that last monster shot you have there, you wanted to present a challenge we've never seen on the show. At the same time, I think you would imagine, somehow, some way, they'll find a way to stop it, you know?
How did the writers refer to the devil we met in the episode?
We called him a devil or the devil. We've gone back and forth on this many times. The mythology of the show has so much of the apocalypse and all of that. He says himself, and it's one thing [executive producer] Albert Kim really wanted to make sure we got in there, "I'm the devil you know and many you don't." On this show, there are many different myriad of demons. Molach was some sort of demonic creature. He's calling himself the devil, and he's the devil who made a deal with Malcolm Dreyfuss.
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We would love to see dragons, vampires, mermaids and more visit 'Sleepy Hollow.'
What went into crafting that devil character?
It all goes back to [our use of] "Sympathy for the Devil," and we had done other versions of it. I was at a cocktail party, and they loved the different versions of "Sympathy," and he was like, "How are you going to top that? You've already had orchestra, you already had a female singer cover it. What's the next version?" And that stuck in my mind, and at some point in the [writers'] room, I came in, and I said, "The only way to top that is to have him meet the actual devil." We just thought it would be a fun and interesting new adversary to introduce. If the show comes back, it's great to know there's that character that was the voice behind Dreyfuss; he's a real entity. If not, it's fun to finally have a moment where he's face-to-face with the so-called ultimate evil.
The look is something that popped in my head, and you would see him, and at first he would present as a very elegant and interesting gentleman, and then when he turned his face, it would be ruined. Originally, he was going to have maggots crawling on his face. At first, our makeup effects person came up with that beautiful cracked skin, half-face, and then our VFX department augmented it with the blood and flames. Once we saw the blood and flames, we were like, forget the maggots, let's go for the blood.
Russell Fine directed the episode, who I think just did such an amazing job. Because Malcolm was so corporate, I thought maybe we'd see him in a corporate office. But Russell and I were talking all the way through the process of writing the script, and he was like, "Listen, I think I found Hell." And I said, "Really?" He said, "Yeah, let me send you a picture." He sent me this picture of that elevator with the lights and the scene from below, and he goes, "What do you think?" And I was like, "Yep!" [Laughs.]
'Sleepy Hollow' Boss on the Jaw-Dropping Lara and Ichabod Twists
'We wanted to make sure it was shocking and bold in the tradition of big 'Sleepy Hollow' twists,' executive producer Albert Kim explains.
Jobe (Kamar de los Reyes) betrayed Dreyfuss to help Team Witness. He took Dreyfuss' soul down to Hell, but is there room for him to come back in the future?
I loved the Jobe character. We talked about a lot in the room—I know the fans really liked him and were eager for more about him. We made a choice to play him a little more mysterious. Every once in a while, we showed a peak into he and Dreyfuss had built a relationship throughout the years. That Dreyfuss had come to really come to rely on Jobe; they would go out to steak dinners.
But, in the end, really, Jobe was given to Dreyfuss. That was the deal that Dreyfuss made in order to become successful was he would have this demon at his beck and call. But when the contract was up, Jobe reverts back to his original owner. We love the actor. Kamar is fantastic and brought so much to the character. He's definitely still out there. If we came back, I'd love to see the character come back.
What was the genesis of having the team report to the president going forward? And how might that change things if there is a Season 5?
It all comes back to the longer arc for Crane and also Diana. Crane's legacy, the vault, which we now learn was a combination of Benjamin Banneker's dream and Washington's support…his citizenship and finding a place in the world—it's a neat place to bring him to if it's the end of the series. If there is a further season, it places him into a leadership role with an interesting group of people he has gathered along the way.
And for Diana, she's had an interesting arc over the season: to be drawn into this organization because of the death of her partner and to find out her daughter is this Witness, and to be released in this episode of her responsibility, but to come to a place where she is choose to battle against evil in a real official capacity.
I think, also, part of that as well, would be Jenny. I toward the end of the season, Jenny was wrestling with if she would stay or go. But I think, in the end, it would be everyone united—they would be officially under the vault, which they've all unofficially been this season.
Henry also opted to stand down. He's not a good guy, but is there room for him to revisit Sleepy Hollow going forward?
It was interesting: The title of the episode is "Freedom." The conflict between Henry and Crane is such a deep one, and so based around their distant ideas of who is at fault for Henry's childhood, which Crane has said many times was not his fault. He was under the ground when it happened. And Henry's inability to let that go.
Henry has grown over these iterations into this creature of real anger. I think by finally regaining and embodying the armor of War, he believes his role is one of destruction and bringing strife. He really has embraced that. I think the interesting thing there is the question that Crane poses to him; it really goes to Henry's past mythology in the show: Henry killed Moloch. He didn't want to have Moloch lording over him. He didn't want to be anyone's servant. In Season 2, Episode 17, he wanted to raise this nation of witches where witches would be free. He is a character who would not want to submit to anyone's tyranny. I think Crane pointing it out to him is the only way Henry would stand down.
I like that moment, too, because there's so much cool battling in the episode. It begins as a battle of wills and a choice between the two of them and Henry's anger at the top of the episode. And then it has the resolution between the two of them when Henry, instead of choosing to shoot the gun, metaphorically, instead he stands down.
Seychelle Gabriel and Tom Mison in the "Freedom" episode of Sleepy Hollow
Lara, the grownup version of Molly, also opted to leave the team—and Ichabod said goodbye to his fellow Witness with a deep bow. What led to that decision?
We were so happy to have Seychelle join us for these episodes. We adored working with her. So did Tom. We really felt like having her, introducing this idea there's an evolution of the Molly character, who would be able to literally be a Witness who could fight alongside Crane, and also has a deep emotional bond to both Diana and Molly, is a great character we could use if we came back. If not, it's nice to know there are these two Witnesses out there in the world who have this connection.
The bow was 100 percent Tom Mison. He is very judicious about the bows that Crane will do. In the moment, on the day, he came up to me and said, "I think in this moment I should bow." And I said, "Please do, we'd love to see it." That lovely moment was 100 percent him.
Nicole Beharie Speaks Out About Her ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Exit & The Controversy’s Impact On Her Career
By Denise Petski
Denise Petski
Senior Managing Editor
Photo by Sketch/Kurtzman Orci Paper Products/20th Century Fox Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock
Nicole Beharie is revealing more details about her shocking 2016 exit from the Fox series Sleepy Hollow, a departure that sparked an uproar by fans over the exit of the show’s female black lead. Beharie revealed in 2019 that she left the show, in part, because of an auto-immune disease. In recent candid interviews with The San Diego Union-Tribune and The New York Times, Beharie expanded on what she experienced at the time on-set, and how she had been “blacklisted” after her exit.
Beharie’s Detective Abbie Mills character was killed off in the season 3 finale of Sleepy Hollow.
Production shut down for two weeks because of her illness, she told the Times. She also said she had daily checkups “to make sure I was actually sick” — and when doctors told her she needed to rest, Beharie added, “that’s not what they wanted to hear.”
“There’s a lot of pressure in a situation like that where so many people are relying on you alone to get up and get going,” she said. “I feel like it’s taken me the last few years to really see clearly that it wasn’t personal, it’s about the way that these structures are set up. It was very difficult to talk about at the time because I wanted to get back to work. But I was labeled as problematic and blacklisted by some people.”
In the years immediately following her exit, she appeared in much smaller roles in Monsters and Men and Black Mirror.
Beharie had been with the series since its 2013 debut and was central to the show’s central myth arc. At the time of her exit, Fox released a statement calling death of Mills “a very dramatic ending and a bold move for the show,” but one that had been known for its shocking finales,” and that it was “a poignant conclusion” for her character.
“Sometimes I think that some people I was working with didn’t like that I was unwell but loved by the audience, Beharie told The New York Times. “I would think they’d support that. But everyone of color on that show was seen as expendable and eventually let go.”
In the years since, Beharie said she has come to terms with the situation and has learned from it.
“I probably could have been more diplomatic about things in some way,” she told the Times. “Since then, I’ve been making sure that I’m working with the right folks. It’s something that we’ve seen with #MeToo and Time’s Up, where people who’ve asked questions have been discarded. It’s not a new story [but] I never thought it would be my story. Unfortunately it is, but healing takes time and I feel like I’m on the other side of it. I learned a lot. I wouldn’t change anything. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody, though.”
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By Denise Petski
Denise Petski
Senior Managing Editor
Photo by Sketch/Kurtzman Orci Paper Products/20th Century Fox Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock
Nicole Beharie is revealing more details about her shocking 2016 exit from the Fox series Sleepy Hollow, a departure that sparked an uproar by fans over the exit of the show’s female black lead. Beharie revealed in 2019 that she left the show, in part, because of an auto-immune disease. In recent candid interviews with The San Diego Union-Tribune and The New York Times, Beharie expanded on what she experienced at the time on-set, and how she had been “blacklisted” after her exit.
Beharie’s Detective Abbie Mills character was killed off in the season 3 finale of Sleepy Hollow.
“My costar and I were both sick at the same time but I don’t believe that we were treated equally,” she told The San Diego Union-Tribune. “He was allowed to go back to England for a month [to recover while] I was given Episode 9 to shoot on my own. So I pushed through it and then by the end of that episode I was in urgent care. And all the doctors, including the doctors that the studio was sending, were all confirming, ‘Hey, she can’t work right now.'”
Production shut down for two weeks because of her illness, she told the Times. She also said she had daily checkups “to make sure I was actually sick” — and when doctors told her she needed to rest, Beharie added, “that’s not what they wanted to hear.”
“There’s a lot of pressure in a situation like that where so many people are relying on you alone to get up and get going,” she said. “I feel like it’s taken me the last few years to really see clearly that it wasn’t personal, it’s about the way that these structures are set up. It was very difficult to talk about at the time because I wanted to get back to work. But I was labeled as problematic and blacklisted by some people.”
In the years immediately following her exit, she appeared in much smaller roles in Monsters and Men and Black Mirror.
Beharie had been with the series since its 2013 debut and was central to the show’s central myth arc. At the time of her exit, Fox released a statement calling death of Mills “a very dramatic ending and a bold move for the show,” but one that had been known for its shocking finales,” and that it was “a poignant conclusion” for her character.
“Sometimes I think that some people I was working with didn’t like that I was unwell but loved by the audience, Beharie told The New York Times. “I would think they’d support that. But everyone of color on that show was seen as expendable and eventually let go.”
In the years since, Beharie said she has come to terms with the situation and has learned from it.
“I probably could have been more diplomatic about things in some way,” she told the Times. “Since then, I’ve been making sure that I’m working with the right folks. It’s something that we’ve seen with #MeToo and Time’s Up, where people who’ve asked questions have been discarded. It’s not a new story [but] I never thought it would be my story. Unfortunately it is, but healing takes time and I feel like I’m on the other side of it. I learned a lot. I wouldn’t change anything. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody, though.”
Nicole Beharie Speaks Out About Her ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Exit & The Controversy’s Impact On Her Career
Nicole Beharie is revealing more details about her shocking 2016 exit from the Fox series Sleepy Hollow.
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@fonzerrillii @ViCiouS @largebillsonlyplease
'The Boys' season 3 gets even wilder by adding a salacious comic book character
'The Boys' season 3 added a character with one of the most pearl-clutching moments from the comics.
The Boys season 3 gets even wilder by adding a salacious comic book character
The NSFW Amazon superhero satire added a character with one of the craziest moments from the comics.
By Nick Romano
March 26, 2021 at 01:39 PM EDT
It's hard to think about how much crazier The Boys season 3 could get when it already has plans for a giant days-long orgy among supes, but it very much is and we'll tell you how.
Joining the ranks of newcomers to the show, which includes Jensen Ackles' debut as Soldier Boy, is Dexter and Sleepy Hollow actress Katia Winter, EW has learned.
Winter will guest star in season 3 in the role of Little Nina from the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comics, and she's just as wild as the rest of these outrageous characters.
Little Nina is a Russian mob boss who got her name because she is rather short. Like, really short. She worked with Vought, using a lesser version of the company's Compound-V formula to create more supes. The only issue was that the heads of her subjects kept exploding.
Keeping with the NSFW antics of The Boys, Little Nina also has a fondness for sex toys, particularly vibrators. Her death is one of the most shocking, pearl-clutching moments in the entire comics because — POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING — she's killed when Billy Butcher (Karl Urban's character on the show) sneaks a detonator inside one of her vibrators and blows it up while she's using it on a plane.
Yeah. It sure is something alright, but also totally on par with the kind of things viewers have come to see from the show. Remember, this is the same series that depicted a supe accidentally popping open a man's head during cunnilingus.
Katia Winter joining 'The Boys,' starring Karl Urban.
Showrunner Eric Kripke and his cast have been busy filming The Boys season 3 in Canada since late February. Urban, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Karen Fukuhara, and the gang are returning for a new story that tackles the history of Vought in America. That includes the story of Payback, the world's first premiere team of superheroes before the Seven was formed. Ackles' Soldier Boy was the leader of that group.
Aya Cash, who starred as Stormfront in season 2, recently told EW she's probably not coming back for season 3. "I'm not there now," she said. "I'm on a new Fox show now called This Country. My contract for The Boys was only for a year so, who knows? Maybe they can CGI my face in."
But we do have Claudia Doumit taking on an expanded role as Congresswoman Neuman after that literally mind-blowing reveal in season 2.
Meanwhile, Amazon continues to develop a Boys spin-off series, which is casting up.
Deadline was the first to report Winter's casting.
Kamar de los Reyes, who played Antonio Vega on 'One Life to Live,' dies at 56
Kamar de los Reyes, who played Antonio Vega on 'One Life to Live' and voiced villain Raul Menendez in 'Call of Duty' video games, has died at age 56 after a brief battle with cancer.
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