Sleepy Hollow "For the Triumph of Evil": Sister Issues

I have to say at this point in the series I am officially hooked and along for the ride with Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow knows itself and what to deliver. It's like SuperWhoLock in a way. The main character is a sexy British guy, with an amazing voice, as well as the music for the series has reminiscent tones of the music from Sherlock. Ichabod is also in a way a time traveler from the past thrown into the future, with in For the Triumph of Evil, fights things that look like the Silence from Doctor Who. Then there is the whole case of the week thing with a supernatural element to it with a supernatural, crime fighting duo that is similar to Supernatural. Not to mention have a hideout with everything supernatural inside it like the Men of Letters hideout. For the Triumph of Evil takes the audience into Abbie's history and bringing her around to the idea that there is something out there, which Ichabod has been saying for a while now. Admitting that there is such a thing as the supernatural is the first step to dealing with the coming apocalypse.

It starts this week with Abbie having a dream of watching Ichabod interview a younger version of herself about the events of the incident that Abbie experienced as a young girl. She is awaken by a call as she is needed at a scene with a jumper. When she arrives Ichabod is there, for some apparent reason, and she is told that the jumper will only talk to Abbie. Abbie is unable to talk the jumper down, but the jumper had said that she knew her patient wasn't crazy but still had her committed. They soon realize that the jumper was the doctor for Abbie's sister, Jenny. So they look into what was going on and this leads them to visit Jenny and see her connection in all this. Jenny refuses to see Abbie, but Ichabod goes on ahead to visit to Jenny and speaks with her. Jenny tells Ichabod she can't help and makes a comment about Abbie. Ichabod confronts Abbie about this and she reveals she had lied about what she'd seen because she was afaird. The duo soon discover that the creature is hunting the people related to Abbie's childhood incident in their dreams.

At this point in the series I have to say at this point, I have come to expect these kind of episodes from Sleepy Hollow and For the Triumph of Evil fit right in. In a way it didn't feel out of place when Sleepy Hollow took a peak at Abbie Mills' past and letting the audience met her sister Jenny Mills who is played by the lovely Lyndie Greenwood (might know her from the underwatched show Nikita). Gotta say it was strange to hear her speak without the British accent she uses in Nikita, but I love her all the same (seriously when is Nikita coming back?). I am also going to assume at this point that we are going to be using a lot flashbacks to the civil war with Ichabod. I would have never guessed watching this series that there was going to be flashbacks involved, but then again, I should have known. What impressed me though about For the Triumph of Evil is the attention respect that the show gave Indians Aboriginals about the wrongs that were done back in history. That is what is great about Ichabod's character since he was from a time where they were making the alliances and actually sat with the first nations people, he grew a great for them. Sleepy Hollow, so far, has done a great job of not following the cliches and establishing strong characters. This episode's winner of Ichabod verses modern day is Ichabod verses the energy drink. His reaction to it was so funny and I kinda hoped that he might become a little jittery and hyped up. Although it was amusing he preferred a potion over the energy drink. Love you Ichabod my adorable little misplaced time traveler.

 Now For the Triumph of Evil was within Sleepy Hollow's general theme for an episode, there were some things that just fell through. Similar to last week's episode, it built up a storyline that in the end had a quick little solve at the end. Don't build something up to only have a simple solution. Have the characters struggle a bit and grow through that experience, or something like that. As for Abbie, you would think Abbie would have learned her lesson. For those of you looking for the headless horsemen or John Cho, both were absent this week. There was apparently a #TeamEvil meeting. Another thought, its kinda funny no one has noticed the hole Ichabod made in the wall at the station. I mean someone is bound to find it right? Right? Or is it just going to be pushed off to the side?

Overall I enjoyed For the Triumph of Evil and the storyline it's setting up with the Mills sisters. It's nice to see that Ichabod and Abbie have this level of trust and have each other's backs (And no I do not ship them. Am I the only one who likes them as partners?) My favorite line of the night has to go to Ichabod with, "No scorpions. Ever." On Ichabod. Speaking of which, he seems kinda of perfect other than being a pre-civil war man stuck in 2013. So is his fault being stuck out of time? I'm pretty sure Sleepy Hollow will explain it later, right? Good start to series Sleepy Hollow. See you next week!

What did you think of this week's creature? Does this remind you also of SuperWhoLock?