This week’s segment in the tale of the formative years of the Dark Knight has an unexpected turn or two that play out. Chaos will be caused in Gotham, yet again, and a “hero” will rise out of all of it. So let’s get going, shall we?
Daniel, Travis and Maddie drive to the compound’s parking garage. Daniel notices that Colonel Adams is missing from Travis’ pickup and is ticked off, but not surprised. He figured Travis would let the guy go. Really, didn’t we all?
The long national nightmare is over; Sleepy Hollow Season 3 is back and off to an encouraging start. The new showrunner, Clifton Campbell, knows what Sleepyheads endured and is righting wrongs. In the second season, heroine Abbie Mills got treated like a sidekick, hero Ichabod Crane was portrayed as a chump and tertiary characters were given the spotlight. The Season Three premiere, written by Albert Kim, and directed by actor Peter Weller, delivered a lot of what fans championed.
Quantico is the most glorious new show of the Fall season because Joshua Safran got a greenlight for a series about models unleashed on the FBI Academy. The creator bravely strolled into a meeting and proposed: “What if we did a Homeland meets Melrose Place show about the biggest terrorist attack since 9/11?” He was not escorted out of the room. I love this show so hard. Unlike its lead-in, Blood & Oil, Quantico commits to being a sudsy, improbable series. The actors and actresses appear to enjoy what they are doing, and it’s fun to watch. Where Blood & Oil is painfully predictable, Quantico gleefully embraces the OMG and OMFG factor.
If Wick is supposed to be the bad boy, the writers can’t make him this incompetent. Wick needs to be J.R. Ewing OS X. Okay, nobody can be J.R. Ewing, that is setting the bar too high. That doesn’t mean Wick has to be Fredo.
Ichabod is so grateful to be with his Leftenant and Miss Jenny in the archives. He missed his musty books so much. He needs this more than they do. Abbie has an exciting career and has moved past Witnessing, but Ichabod has two things he can cling to, his knowledge of history and his ability to Witness. Without Abbie, he can’t do the latter. His family betrayed him, he must have been quite lonely.
Last week Miss Lawrence warned Jamal not to be shady. Is Jamal trying to get his soul back? He was sweet to Rhonda and okayish with Hakeem. Is he just messing with us, so we start to feel secure? Stop toying with our hearts, Jamal!
We have been celebrating tomorrow night’s Sleepy Hollow Season 3 premiere, with a seven-day lovefest. Yes, we are completely in love with Abbie Mills and swoon over that damn sexy hobo Ichabod Crane, but there’s another Team Witness member we adore, Abbie’s sister, the smart and nuanced action girl, Miss Jenny Mills.
