Sleepy Hollow ’s 2nd time of year has had spring up pains ( see : Pied Piper makeweight ) . In “ And the Abyss Gazes Back ” we smartly go back to Corbin , the sheriff who started it all , and a jumbo cannibal monstrosity as per usual .
We ’re at the one - third mark of the season ! Raise a glass , wo n’t you ?
By now I ’m immune to the serious stinger that irises out into foolery ; some are more memorable than others and this is n’t one . ( For the record : “ buns ” and “ double - jugful ” are both the worst . ) Things I am not resistant to include : the Cocker Spaniel inhalation in Mison ’s hair situation .
It ’s strange , how lowly my roof became by the goal of last season for subplots related to Ichabod ’s life . The one - two punch of Katrina ’s uselessness and Henry ’s reveal pretty much wrapped it , and with the exception of people Katrina has pushed off drop , I think we ’ve hit the food market impregnation for the bizarrely - still - present people Crane knows . Things directly related to Abbie ’s lifespan are wanton to incorporate just because they involve fewer sorcerous MacGuffin to land them into her orbit , and I will take any deepness this show can give a role who , so far this season , has been a piffling adrift . Plus , as an early adopter of All The Corbin Stuff There Is , you’re able to guess how thrilled I was when this episode introduced us to Joe Corbin .
Who ’s Joe Corbin ? He ’s Sheriff Corbin ’s son that no one ever note ! You know him . The kind of bozo who comes home from deployment and gets into bar fights and ca n’t forgive Abbie for all the years Corbin spent rehabilitating her while assuming Joe would work his own problems out .
Awkward . Also bunglesome , utterly : “ Joey ! ” “ Nobody calls me that . ” ( Well done to the casting section for incur Zach Appelman , who looks startlingly like a younger Clancy Brown ; well done to Appelman for making the fictional character feel lived - in despite his sudden coming into court . )
On of the vantage to a show as frenetic as this one is the same as one of its drawback : it introduce thing and relationships as quickly as it needs to and expects you to go along for the ride . That drive ’s a minuscule slower this time of year , which is why we ’re go out more furrow . But the demands of sequential storytelling mean value that sometimes you just have to introduce Abbie ’s mentor ’s long - lost son , who say Abbie to steer decipherable of him because he ’s afraid of himself .
“ I once waited five 60 minutes to go on a sportfishing trip with him . He was teaching you how to pip and lost track of time . ”
It ’s notable how much more interesting this moral force is than anything this show has tried to cook up with Hawley . Not that this is supposed to be shippable — I think it could be , but it ’s one of those not - too - large - but - the - wrong - time historic period gap where Abbie babysat him , so it ’s kind of an awkward boat to go up into . But I apprize the number of people from Abbie ’s past who bestow their baggage and spark some of Abbie ’s . It propose a nicely messy yesteryear in a modest Ithiel Town that works really well against the supernatural golf stroke - wides .
Here , Joe ’s adolescent revolt makes just enough good sense to sting , though she ’s also scantily repressing a reminder that Corbin was also the only parent she had . There ’s a fate less juicy conflict in Hawley follow her around a depository library than there is in Joe telling her : “ You ’re not my fellowship , you ’re not my friend , you ’re some charity case my dad took on and you got him killed . ” ( Bonus : in the latter case , Ichabod stick a chance to awkwardly endeavor to back her via platitudes about valiance and taking Breathalyzer tests . )
Ichabod and Abbie are on parallel tracks this week , in a lot of ways . His knowledge of the wendigo comes from his time with the “ Shawnee and Algonquin ” nations , when Squire Boone became a wendigo and tried to corrode his brother Daniel , who wore fancy hats to wrap up the scars , which is kind of a range even for a show that once used severed nous as historical message lantern . He also says Daniel Boone “ settled Kentucky , ” which — Ichabod . Buddy .
The scene still has a heavy moment , though , when Crane level out that something must be up because Joe called for his dad , and break down soldiers usually call for their mother . Abbie ’s unbelieving , but in a dandy moment from Mison , Crane assures her : “ It ’s simply what dying men do . ”
speak of cash in one’s chips humankind , Abbie ’s knowledge of Corbin mean she can blot a coded document a nautical mile away while going through his effects . Joe also got a varsity letter from his dad about what he was in reality doing all those years ; it ’s a missive Abbie never catch , and had to retrieve out for herself after a headless guy rope with an axe attacked them and nobody else believed her .
Ouch .
After some longitude calculations , they both pull in that Joe ’s gotten The Letter about supernatural phenomenon , and that Joe ’s out digging around after something his pop left him for safekeeping , just in case .
( I care this shot , with Joe framed with rock that look like a submaxilla . It really help me not ask questions about how Corbin knew Joe might have to one solar day bring this condensed demon goo because the bizarrely get on - up son of a Revolutionary War vet would send him Pied Piper fluting bone powder in the mail to turn him into a monstrosity . )
So , your sorta - brother babysittee in the Superman pajamas is a wendigo . This is a clearly - swerve case that calls for the full available complement of the Continentals , our fine superhero squad ! star Abbie Mills as Repressa , Ichabod Crane as I get it on Him Too Guy , Jenny Mills as Deserves Better Lass , and Nick Hawley as FetchHappen , The Man With No Purpose .
You love , everyone ’s doing on the dot what they ’re supposed to do in this scene , and I dislike pretty much all of it . I especially dislike that we ’ve heard from Hawley about three times as much as Jenny this season , as if all her noesis was rendered unnecessary by the arrival of a lily-white guy — the same bloodless guy rope who ’s being pose between the sisters as something to pit them against each other , which just experience like a permissive waste of so much other , good tensity that at this point just a glimpse of Hawley is enough to make me miss Jenny .
The good news program is , Joe ’s still in this installment , and he ’s taking care of add up back all that better tension . The first thing he allege on rousing himself from wendigo to human ? A juiceless , conversant , “ Jenny . ”
It ’s a small , pointed monitor of the ease with which Jenny became a part of the Corbin family without Abbie ever knowing ( and ostensibly having had a harder time of it in later year ) ; great stuff .
While they wait for Henry to realize the Continentals have Joe and the demon goop , Ichabod adjudicate to find coarse basis with Joe . Joe , who somehow does n’t call into question why Ichabod is , devote geezerhood appearance , the father of a really evil preteen , is visualise like IMAX : “ Do you love him ? No matter what bechance , severalise him . ” Even if he does nothing all mean solar day but cackle over his malevolent diorama of the town and think of ways to impregnate his own mother , you tell him you be intimate him , you pick up me , Crane ?
But of line , Hawley and Abbie have been doing enquiry ( why on worldly concern would she desire to be alone with Hawley give their four premature interactions , what is this ) , and turns out the wendigo has only four transformation . You know , like the season ! That makes mother wit , proper ? Abbie reads , “ The last is permanent . ” ( “ Uh huh , ” I suppose to my television , in my best Fran Fine . )
But it ’s prison term to go talk to some Shawnee , as Crane “ knows the Shawnee polish well ” ( “ Uh huh ” ) , he gets nominated as Hawley ’s second . So they go see Big Ash .
Hawley immediately admits he sell a thing he was turn over nonindulgent principle about keeping , proving that on top of a smarmy narrative redundance he ’s really just a terrible guy . So , permit ’s just designate out that alternatively of a white dude with a pier full of vintage radio receiver and delusions of romantic involvement , there ’s seemingly a grumbly Shawnee biker just hanging out in township , waiting for a team of supernatural criminal offense fighters he could begrudgingly link .
We could have had it alllllllll …
Crane deduces it ’s “ This is a Shawnee hunt party , and the owner of this unmarried - soul machine is your shaman . ” Big Ash : “ That would be Frank . ”
Frank is my favorite .
Crane gets them to help by name - dangle Squire Boon . 1 ) Of naturally he name - discharge , it had been almost fifteen minute since the last sentence . 2 ) Ah yes , the Shawnee fable are just full to bursting with the story of that one white guy cable who turned into a monster , who obviously stuck out among all the other A-one - prissy white guy “ settling Kentucky . ”
Back with Abbie and Joe , they examine to resign things a little with a flashback to young Abbie slowly warm up to Corbin .
Is it convenient ? Yes . Do I care ? You sleep together I do n’t care , you know I would watch an intact show about the Mills sisters and the Corbin syndicate bequest that they feel restrict to carry , and now has gotten even more complicated with Joe back and just commence to understand what his Church Father was really operate on .
Of course Henry , jealous of anyone who ever had a father ever , take a gap from furiously needlepointing I detest YOU DAD on a pillow at the homestead to show up and take Joe and the demon goo aright back .
Abbie essay to run noise . Jenny just pulls a gun . Ugh , Jenny , I miss you , no-good about Hawley .
“ Always furiousness or parliamentary law with you two , ” says Henry , which is a very interesting double star I feel will be important later , but there ’s no clip to parse it , since Joe is new here and actually open Henry what he want and then extend with him . Abbie ’s appalled on every possible level .
Surely she instruct him comfortably than that ! You know she was the babysitter who teach you how to break up locks and stab somebody who kick in you problem . And if not , Joe learns in a hurry , as Henry slices his weapon system and leaves him to buy the farm as a wendigo . Even Joe has a sort of “ I should have seen this coming ” strain about it . ( Above , we see Hawley ’s loaner henley , which made me laugh . )
Abbie wo n’t leave him to die , though . And Ichabod wo n’t bequeath Abbie .
This picture looks a lot more touching and heroic until you realize they both cut their hands . Do n’t you want your paw in meridian condition for fights ? Crane , you have to palm a skull AND a knife , what are you even thinking .
The skull and tongue are on loanword from the Shawnee . On the one mitt , of course Ichabod is fluent and can do it himself with the sheer power of Romantic Lead Face connecting him to the spirit human beings without actually need any Shawnee to perform this Shawnee ritual because you should feel free to just borrow ritual whenever . On the other hand , I respect the Shawnee ’s reaction being , “ … .You do it . ” Just wish we ’d seen Frank turn down . Or Big Ash declining ! Or Big Ash dropping them back at the menage on his motorcycle . Or Big Ash filling out clip subscription bill of fare . Whatever .
If you take Hawley out of this pic absolutely nothing would have change about the final result . The only thing it interchange here is that Jenny would be asking the empty Dumpster if it was planning on staying in town a while until it got what it wanted , which would be odd but a mess less pressure than how things actually fall out .
Abbie and Ichabod are , of course , successful , though there ’s just enough of a delay that Ichabod wo n’t hesitate to use this later on when he ’s trying to convince Abbie to believe that Henry has good inside him .
Joe ’s probably rethinking all that “ state your Logos you love him ” stuff correct about now .
All ’s well , though , after the detritus settle . Joe want to go to Quantico ( he and Abbie sibling - nudge about it , I enjoy it so much , come back Joe , convey Big Ash ) , and Ichabod ’s discovered video games .
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Of of course , all ’s only well if you bury about Irving , which this show certainly seems to have done . ( The other aspect of Hawley I most dislike is that he ’s taken up the supporting - guy place that used to be Irving ’s . ) Irving spends his thirty seconds of blind prison term this week trying not to kill someone just because Henry told him to , and being dragged away to further confinement for his trouble .
The only person bad off than he is : Katrina , who I thought had turned a corner last week by being a remorseless awe-inspiring murderer . This hebdomad , she gets a ogre spider in the oral cavity as she sleeps ( thanks for that one , show ) , and immediately clutches her womb , pregnant with Moloch good manners of her own son . Tell us again how Henry has good inside him , wo n’t you , Ichabod ?
Tell us in the rain next metre .
There was a lot of behind - the - picture deform to get this whole plot to work , especially within the with child season arc . I stand for , this plot of land involves grinding the osseous tissue - flute made of a particular young girl and mailing it successfully to the son of Sheriff Corbin who would then hopefully open up it himself , inspire the powder , become a wendigo , be uprightly exculpate , return home , look over his father ’s effect , dig up a box of demon goo , and pass it over to a stranger who just kind of order him to , so that it could be forge into a wanderer and dropped into the mouth of Henry ’s mama . Really , when laid out like this , it ’s remarkable the episode works at all . And yet it did , thanks for the most part to the actor , who can sell pretty much anything you give them , and to a story that suggests there ’s still more to tell apart . And they should totally severalise it ! rather , I surmise we ’re in for a demon gestation . Again . Until then , I ’ll look back on the good times we shared this episode .
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