Genevieve Valentine, Author at Gizmodo

Sleepy Hollow Starts The Season’s Endgame With Its Boldest Twist Ever

After what felt like a whole season of treading water, Sleepy Hollow revealed its huge end-of-season twist in “Awakening,” the first half of a two-part finale. Is the second part going to be a disaster? Maybe. Is it still the biggest move of the season? Totally. That twist, of course, is the reason this episode…

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Sleepy Hollow Hopes You Like Thomas Jefferson And/Or Holograms

Thomas Jefferson was a pointed historical punchline in the first season of Sleepy Hollow, where Abbie and Irving enlightened Ichabod Crane about the dangers of lionizing his contemporary who had children with one of his slaves. In last night’s “What Lies Beneath,” he’s the hero. How heroic? Ichabod bows to him three separate times. Spoilers…

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Sleepy Hollow Has Too Many “Spellcasters,” None Of Them Interesting

After trying to woo you back with karaoke and a Hawley-free town, Sleepy Hollow tries to make “Spellcaster” the kind of episode that gets a show renewed. How’d they do? It’s no secret that Sleepy Hollow has had a rough year. Over the course of season two, they’ve lost a third of their regular audience,…

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Sleepy Hollow Really, Really Wants You to Come Back

This week, Sleepy Hollow is sorry for everything that’s happened in Season Two. It still loves you, and it wants you to come back. It even makes two promises that could change the show – but can it deliver? In discussing last week’s episode, in which the show assumed Katrina would be a valuable asset…

io9 Genevieve Valentine Jan 27

Sleepy Hollow Has Some Weird, Terrible Ideas About Marriage Counseling

This week’s Sleepy Hollow gave us the plot no one was clamoring for: Ichabod and Katrina try to save their marriage, and get chased by an evil painting. It’s more fun than it sounds! (Which isn’t saying much.) Spoilers ahead… Whatever Sleepy Hollow’s long-term reactions to the widespread season-two backlash are, they’re going to come…

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Sleepy Hollow‘s Back!…But Is It Better?

When we left Sleepy Hollow, it was torching its premise, shaking the show to its foundations and setting up for a wild comeback. How can it recover from so dramatic a midseason finale? …Oh, you know. Stuff. As we discussed in the midseason finale recap, blowing up the show’s entire premise halfway through the second…

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Sleepy Hollow‘s Fall Finale Changes Everything…But Should It?

Well, THAT was an episode of television! For its fall finale, Sleepy Hollow pulled out all the stops and went straight for Moloch. But what about all that collateral damage? Let’s be honest: Sleepy Hollow, at its best, is one of the most fun shows on TV. But season two, so far, has largely not…

Television Genevieve Valentine Dec 2

Sleepy Hollow Has Completely Lost the Plot

Heading into the fall finale with “Magnum Opus,” we expected some unanswered questions. We did not expect the Headless Horseman to fight a Gorgon, though given how gleefully off-the-rails this episode is, maybe we should have. Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: the plot for this episode is honestly incomprehensible. A quarter…

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Sleepy Hollow Has a Family Reunion (In a Creepy Hospital Of Course)

Well! Sleepy Hollow’s sophomore slump took a sharp uptick this week with “Mama,” which gave us a long-overdue Mills family reunion…in a really questionable hospital. Centering around something we’ve been without for too long (Abbie and Jenny’s relationship), this episode nearly draws on some of the classic great ghost stories, where the ghost only illuminates…

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Sleepy Hollow Gives Us a Maneater

“Oof,” you maybe thought after last week’s demon pregnancy, “how awkward is it going to get now that Katrina’s part of the fold?” Not nearly as awkward as when a succubus shows up and everything resets! This episode felt less like a straight line than a yo-yo being swung in increasingly tight circles. Not all…

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Sleepy Hollow has an evil pregnancy! …Another one.

Today’s election day! Have you voted? Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane want you to. Also I guess Katrina’s pregnant with Moloch, but I think we can all agree how little we care about that. Let’s mostly just vote. Ugh, okay fine, we’ll talk about the whole episode. But let’s be clear that of all the…

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Continentals, Assemble! Sleepy Hollow Builds a Team.

Sleepy Hollow’s second season has had growing pains (see: Pied Piper filler). In “And the Abyss Gazes Back” we smartly go back to Corbin, the sheriff who started it all, and a giant cannibal monster as per usual. We’re at the one-third mark of the season! Raise a glass, won’t you? By now I’m immune…

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Sleepy Hollow Is Haunted in the Soapiest Halloween Ever

This week, Halloween comes to Sleepy Hollow via a terrifying revelation. No, not the Headless Horseman. No, not the demon possessions. No, not the sick kid who staggered into town and disrupted the hospital. No, not the pipers in the woods. Not even this week’s ghost! You guys…Katrina did something. Yes, yet another figure from…

Television Genevieve Valentine Oct 21

Sleepy Hollow Gets its Most Awkward Artifact Yet

Welcome back to Sleepy Hollow, the show determined to condense a season’s worth of X-Files Across America’s monster-of-the-week episodes into the environs of a single town! In “Go Where I Send Thee”, we get The Pied Piper and his bone flute. For serious. When the show got a longer second-season order, there was concern that…

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John Noble Builds an Evil Diorama Because Sleepy Hollow Is Amazing

This week Sleepy Hollow takes a break from being The X-Files to hit a metaphorically-apt beat right out of Buffy: When an evil coin goes missing, Ichabod and Abbie must find it before it can unleash a wave of repressed hate. THRILL as sister turns against sister! GASP as Ichabod and the new guy smash…

Television Genevieve Valentine Oct 7

Sleepy Hollow Raises Our Expectations (And a Punny Monster)

Last week, Sleepy Hollow got everyone out of the cliffhanger clutches of evil. But while it was as entertaining as ever, there were lingering issues everywhere. This week addresses them so directly you can tell the Horseman reads the recaps And they also go full Frankenstein, because you need a B-plot of something, right? It’s…

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Sleepy Hollow Returns, Immediately Starts War

Welcome back to season two of Sleepy Hollow, the show that makes any attempt at describing it to a non-watcher sound like you’re the drunk guy who went to a historical-conspiracy website one time and Cannot Stop Thinking About It! When we left off, the show had spent thirteen breakneck hours hurling every possible trope…

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Seven Tips for Adapting Anne Rice’s Vampire Novels for Film (Again)

Last week, Universal broke the news that it had bought rights to the fourteen novels in Anne Rice’s vampire series and was planning a movie franchise. Here are seven rules for what should happen next. Perhaps this decision came in the wake of the unbearable vampire vacuum that loomed after the end of True Blood.…

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Penny Dreadful‘s Season Finale Leaves Us With a Zillion Questions

With only eight episodes to work with and Gothic subplots spawning every minute, we knew Penny Dreadful couldn’t possibly get to it all in a single finale. But in “Grand Guignol,” it sure did try. Spoilers ahead. Penny Dreadful has done very well this season in balancing giving us the inevitable and quietly confounding expectations.…

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Penny Dreadful Races to the Season Finale with a Sleepover

This week, Penny Dreadful pulled out all the stops for a breathless penultimate episode that brings everyone together in the townhouse to hash out the beginning of the end: alliances are formed, secrets come to light, and the devil comes back for Vanessa Ives. (The devil, it turns out, is still not as terrible as…

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Sleepy Hollow Starts The Season’s Endgame With Its Boldest Twist Ever

Sleepy Hollow Hopes You Like Thomas Jefferson And/Or Holograms

Sleepy Hollow Has Too Many “Spellcasters,” None Of Them Interesting

Sleepy Hollow Really, Really Wants You to Come Back

Sleepy Hollow Has Some Weird, Terrible Ideas About Marriage Counseling

Sleepy Hollow‘s Back!…But Is It Better?

Sleepy Hollow‘s Fall Finale Changes Everything…But Should It?

Sleepy Hollow Has Completely Lost the Plot

Sleepy Hollow Has a Family Reunion (In a Creepy Hospital Of Course)

Sleepy Hollow Gives Us a Maneater

Sleepy Hollow has an evil pregnancy! …Another one.

Continentals, Assemble! Sleepy Hollow Builds a Team.

Sleepy Hollow Is Haunted in the Soapiest Halloween Ever

Sleepy Hollow Gets its Most Awkward Artifact Yet

John Noble Builds an Evil Diorama Because Sleepy Hollow Is Amazing

​Sleepy Hollow Raises Our Expectations (And a Punny Monster)

​Sleepy Hollow Returns, Immediately Starts War

​Seven Tips for Adapting Anne Rice’s Vampire Novels for Film (Again)

Penny Dreadful‘s Season Finale Leaves Us With a Zillion Questions

​Penny Dreadful Races to the Season Finale with a Sleepover

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Sleepy Hollow Raises Our Expectations (And a Punny Monster)

Sleepy Hollow Returns, Immediately Starts War

Seven Tips for Adapting Anne Rice’s Vampire Novels for Film (Again)

Penny Dreadful Races to the Season Finale with a Sleepover