My suspension of disbelief can only go so far, Sleepy Hollow Edition

[beatrice_otter]

I've heard a lot of good things about Sleepy Hollow, so I decided to give it a try and am four eps in on Hulu.

There are, indeed, a lot of good things about it.  Each episode has been interesting and entertaining, and there is a diverse cast featuring a black woman as co-lead.

Alas, I my undergrad degree is in early American history and my grad degree is in theology, and that is a bad combo to watch this show.

I keep getting thrown out of it so hard.

The historical details aren't so much changed for dramatic purposes as a few pop-culture elements thrown into a blender on high.  And their interpretation of Revelation is just as bad.  I was hoping that once the first few episodes set the scene that there would at least be less historical references, so I would only have half the problems.

Alas, that does not seem like it is going to happen.

I don't know how many eps I can take before it gets to be too much.

Comments

[spiralleds]

I, too, treat it as total alternate reality/history. Particularly since they kept calling it Revelations the first few eps. So it's totally not our Book of Revelation.

Plus, it's so open about plucking verses willy-nilly without any attempt to be convincing (just like it does with its history), that it doesn't bother me the way, oh all things Left Behind do.

The one thing I do like, faith-wise, is that the sisters grew up hearing, reading, and memorizing their Bible. What a refreshing concept.

[beatrice_otter]

The one thing I do like, faith-wise, is that the sisters grew up hearing, reading, and memorizing their Bible. What a refreshing concept.

Very true.