Blackhoney

Sleepy Hollow’s cancellation is no shock. What did shock me were the number of people who thought the cancellation of Pitch and Rosewood somehow amounted to a renewal for Sleepy Hollow. One show’s cancellation has nothing whatsoever to do with another’s renewal. Sleepy was Fox’s lowest rated show. Lowest rated. Its fate was sealed months ago. You don’t get renewed on a major network with a 0.5 demo. Having said that, the demise of Sleepy Hollow is a sad reminder that Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane will never again grace my screen together. I will miss these characters and I will miss what this show use to represent. By the way, I'm presently rewatching the first two seasons on Hulu. :(

... and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the fans' final f@ck you to the writers. Demo may determine renewal prospects, but viewership tells you whether people care enough about your show to watch and apparently they don't.

Look at yo petty ass... keeping track all through the week. LOL. Loves it :) They lost 222, 000 eyeballs from last week. Wow. Just wow. Plus the demo fell to 0.5 and that's what really matters. They were so gleeful about not losing demo with episode two. They been quiet today. Tucking tail and running. http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/sleepy-hollow-season-four-ratings/ I predicted 1.8 million by the second episode. Not shocked that the third is under 2 million. They only started with 2.2 to begin with. If you know Sleepy’s ratings history, then you already know how this season will turn out. They will eventually level off, hitting their rock bottom point and ending the season somewhere in between their season high and low. Sleepy has consistently been losing viewers since season two. They’ve only gained a substantial number of viewers once, and that was due to the Bones crossover. A look back at the show’s history reveals they start each season with a series low in viewers and then loose another couple hundred thousand with the second episode. I expected this week’s drop last week. I think it didn’t happen because a lot of ppl had no idea the show was even back. When they discovered they tuned in for the second episode. But in keeping with their past trajectory, lost those viewers and more with the third episode. Sad really, because next week’s episode isn’t all bad. TV Guide broke the news that Crane will be tried for Abbie’s death by Jeremy (a Guilt demon) so I can openly talk about it now. The courtroom scenes were worth my time. Everything else boring, including the corny as way the second Witness is called on to help save him. And when I say call, I mean call. LOL.

Fox didn't preview this episode for the press, so I didn't see it. I've seen episodes 3 and 4 though. Doesn't sound like I missed much, but now I know how Molly got her voice back- apparently seeing Crane did it.

I’m okay with all those titles. I woke up yesterday at 7:28 in the morning knowing I was gonna be a bitch all damn day long. I’m one of those same petty, vengeful bitches they reached out to in season two to help save their show, and now I’m that same petty, vengeful bitch that’s doing just the opposite. What I am not though, is capable of singlehandedly killing the show’s ratings. Only the writers can do that, and they’ve been doing a pretty good job of it since season one- yes, I said season one. I find those who still like the show are looking for someone to blame for its failing, and former fans are being cited, as if our few words are reaching the minds of folks across the country with little black boxes and causing them to turn the channel. Less than 3,000 ppl saw my tweets. That’s why when the Grimm Reaper and bigger sites posted the ratings, Philip came outta hiding to dispute them. #Petty&Proud

It’s interesting you said you saw the post at 8AM, because Google sitemap didn’t index the post until 11:32AM, which makes sense because TV Series Finale’s Twitter page automatically posted it at 11:16AM, 11 minutes after I posted my ratings, by the way. So either you’re mistaken or Google’s index bots are. And as someone who actually visited TVSF that morning and knows the post was not there at 8 AM, I respectfully think it may be you. I posted my ratings tweet at 11:05am, Grimm Reaper at 11:08AM, TV Series Finale at 11:16 and at 11:56 Phil made his tweet. When you're as petty as I am, you must also be thorough. LOL

I don’t plan on watching Sleepy Hollow live on television. If they don’t make the episodes available for press viewing in advance, I won’t be reviewing anything, because I have no interest in actually watching the show. I only reviewed Columbia after reading the bogus review TVLine posted claiming Abbie would be making an appearance. I wanted to put that lie to rest so her fans would not be tricked into watching. I’ll be keeping an eye on the ratings though because I’m just petty like that. LOL In another post, I stated that I believe one of the reasons writers started focusing so heavily on Ichabod’s personal life in S1 is because of all the attention TM was getting for his excellent, and yes, well written portrayal of Ichabod Crane. I think TPTB thought the character would be their JR Ewing and that if they focused everything on him, they’d eventually be led to the ratings promise land. They forgot however what happened to Dallas after Bobby Ewing was killed (Google it). Yes, Crane is/was an awesome character, but so was the supporting cast, and especially Abbie. They were the Bobby Ewing’s, and like JR, I don’t think Crane will be as interesting, endearing or tolerable without them. But Sleepy’s biggest problem is that no one cares about the new ppl or want to. Does anyone even care about Crane anymore? Crane was a part of a family that consisted of Abbie, Jenny and Irving. They were his new family. These were the ppl who took in him and made him one of them. Hell, Abbie paid this broke-ass man’s bills for three years and never not once asked him to cough up so much as gas money. The family has been gutted. They were linked via Abbie. She’s gone. Irving’s gone. At one point I thought Henry would become a part of the family, but he’s gone too, at least in the real world. Jenny and Crane have no link other than Abbie and with her gone, these two are practically strangers.

In the past, I have praised Jenny’s ability to fit in with Ichabod and Abbie together and individually. But in the premiere, I was like this is ‘no bueno.’ Jenny and Crane have had good scenes in the past, like in “This is War” and “The Vessel,” but I believe these two together long term will be about as interesting as watching paint dry. Sleepy Hollow’s writers are not interested in exploring characters now, only the demons. Moments of “just being” are routinely interrupted by ringing phones and text messages alerting them to another big bad. Don’t expect Jenny and Ichabod’s so called friendship to be explored, not in 13 episodes at least. Plus, from what I’ve read, Jenny and Diana will butt heads before eventually falling into a torrid lesbian relationship. (Haha, just kidding about the lesbian part) But basically, Diana will be Abbie 2.0 to Crane and Jenny. Just as Jenny and Abbie butted heads before making up, so will Jenn and Diane. Just as Abbie was originally unbelieving before she and Ichabod became besties, so will it be with Diana and Crane. Expect personal stories to be put on the back burner. Folks who don’t want Jenny and Crane mourning will not get it. At best, Abbie will be mentioned in passing, just as she was in episode one. Demons, demons, demons. That’s what SH is about now… demons. And yuck at the kid. Clifton Campbell said we’d see Ichabod’s paternal side explored with the child, and that was why Noble was bought back in, and to that, again, I say, YUCK. Like the above poster, kids all up in grown folks business is a huge turn off for me. I don’t care about Crane’s daddy issues. Hell, I don’t even care about Crane at this point. SH has just become the train wreck I can’t turn away from and don’t want to. lol

The part of your comment I bolded is not true. Below is what I was originally going to post in response to Free saying “Why didn’t they just keep quiet.” But I scrapped it thinking it was too wordy. But here it is below. Also, the networks do not have to wait for websites to update to find out the ratings for their shows. What did they do before the internet? Neilsen. They know the ratings for their shows within about 3 hours of the final airing. They knew before they went to bed that night. It’s the same way Hits Daily Double continues to accurately predicts album sales for a week, with only a days worth of data. It's also worth noting that anyone with common sense could clearly pick out the error in TV Series Finale's chart. It was an obvious mix-up with Rosewood. Iscove lied on purpose, just like Kim attempted to blame non-existent DVR outages for the ratings. __________________________________________________ My Original Comment.... I’m convinced they tried to get sassy because of me. I was a straight heathen on Twitter earlier today. I woke up early just to be petty and immediately started posting scathing reviews and comments from online. I was also the first to post their ratings… all up in their tag. I flooded them early in the morning. Most ppl wait for TV by the Numbers to update their site with overnight ratings at noon, but Showbuzz Daily updates a good 2-3 hours in advance. That’s where I get my ratings from, so I beat Sleepy at posting their own ratings. Shortly after me the Grim Reaper posted the overnights and it was on after that. The Reaper is shady and everyone follows him, so within minutes every major site was tweeting out Sleepy’s terrible ratings. They were pretty confident last night. Celebrating and patting each other on the back. I would say 70% of all tweets were positive. I can understand their arrogance. I know it was shocking to see they lost almost a million viewers. I truly don’t think they were prepared to not be a hit with their new all Crane focused show.

I would say 75% of all tweets in the Sleepy Hollow tag last night were positive. Those who tuned in seem to overwhelmingly enjoy what they saw. I think that made the writer/producers feel quite enamored with themselves. Considering Twitter has been ground zero for major shade from fans, I think the majority positive feedback last night made them assume the ratings would be just as positive. So they got boastful and arrogant, then had to backtrack and make excuses for why the ratings didn’t seem to correlate with Twitter feedback. They also bragged about trending, but either didn’t notice or mention that it was to the tune of less than 5,000 tweets. I think they wanted to send a big F-U to Abbie/Ichabbie fans. I think they wanted to rub their non-existent success in our faces, but then ended up having to eat crow.

Did y’all catch Iscove on Twitter earlier today lying saying the show had over 3 million viewers? He eventually had to retract and looked a fool doing so. Right after that, Albert Kim claimed he heard about DVR outages, but everyone replied their DVRs were fine. It has been such an embarrassing day for them. I think they really are shocked they ended S3 with almost 3 million viewers and are staring off S4 with just over 2 million. I don’t think they thought that many ppl would jump ship. Clearly they’ve forgotten the mass exodus that occurred when S1 ended with 7 million viewers and S2 started with 5 million. The real tragedy will be next week’s ratings though. The second episode of Sleepy’s new seasons are always lower than the season opener. I predict 1.8 million viewers next week with a 0.4 demo. The curiosity factor will have worn off, not to mention all those new ppl who will be turned off by terrible changes, generic new cast members and always poorly written scripts.

This idea that Ichabod is irreplaceable while Abbie is expendable, is why the show has suffered so. I said back in season one I thought the amount of attention Tom received for his portrayal of Ichabod is what led writers to downplay the second Witness (Abbie) and instead focus on Crane and his personal life. It’s why they claimed Hawley was a love interest for Abbie when in actuality he was really brought in to have a bromance with Crane. Writers thought Crane would be their JR Ewing and lead them to the ratings promise land. But HAHA, that has not come to pass. Instead ratings have tanked thanks to that horrible season one finale which started what became known as Crane Family Drama. Season two sunk even deeper into the abyss of Crane, until now the show is a shell of its former self. 2.2 million viewers watched last night’s episode. The demo was a SERIES LOW of 0.6. I predict next week’s episode will draw 1.8 million viewers and a 0.4 demo. This is what making the story all about Crane has done. While some of you may gladly think Crane is the be all to end all of the Sleepy Hollow universe, many viewers do not and have tuned out in droves. As for Betsy, I’d like to see her return too. The actress who played her had massive teeth. She could gnaw the demons to death with those chompers. Save Crane and Jenny a lot of time.

Previous demons, particularly those in season one, were all tied to the overall story of the Witnesses. Ro'kenhronteys and The Golem are two excellent examples. Now, some random person is killed, they discover a demon did it, Ichabod ties the demon to some story in history, and voilà- case solved. Game over. The show is a supernatural procedural, only the cases aren’t interesting and neither is the show. That's why I said in my review people who liked season three would like season four. If demons killing ppl is your thing, SH may be right up your alley. But if you long for the Sleepy Hollow of S1, you're in trouble. Those days are long gone. Crane is now an unpaid detective and the big bad is a tech mogul who looks like he doesn't bathe. Thanks @jhlipton

As God is my witness, if the S4 opener was good I would have said so. But it is bad. Really bad. You won't feel anything when you watch it, and I implore ppl to do just that. Make up your own minds. I see a preview of the episode was released by Fox and it is as boring as the episode itself. Note how it looks good though. Fox spent money making things look great, a little bit extra though shoulda been spent bringing in better writers and a more imaginative showrunner. It's obvious they're hoping a flashier looking Sleepy Hollow will lure fans back or attract new ones. Sadly, their focus on the superficial, scenery and demons, will continue to be the show’s undoing. Another odd thing I noticed in the S4 opener is that Ichabod and Jenny are not as solid together as they were in season one and especially “This is War” from S2. I have delighted in how well Jenny meshed with both Ichabod and Abbie in the past, but that relationship, like all the other relationships that once mattered, has been stripped away. They are just blah now. It's like something is missing. Now of course this is all opinion, but I think you'll all agree after you watch. Another blogger also noted this me. She too felt Ichabod and Jenny were off. I think fans who think “well at least we still have Jenny and Ichabod,” will be shocked as just how boring a duo they are. This too I blame on the writing. I felt every ounce of spark the Witnesses had was stripped away in S3. Yeah we had a few random Ichabbie moments, but overall their chemistry was almost non existent because their bond was no longer the show’s focus, the boring demons are. This season will suffer the same fate. Demons, demons, demons. That's all the writers care about now. Creating duller and duller demons every week. I also wanna add that all the demons are starting to look alike.

I hold no malice towards the show or anyone associated with it. I can indeed review the show and be objective because that’s just how I am. I didn’t poorly review the show in hopes of deterring ppl from watching. I reviewed it actually for the same reason I started reviewing episodes back in season two: because other reviewers were blatantly being misleading and often downright dishonest. I reviewed the S3 opener and a lot of Ichabbie fans (I count myself as one) hated my guts because of it. I was told I should have either gave a more glowing review, or just kept quiet, lest I cause fans not to watch. I continued to pan the show in my reviews before I eventually stopped watching, despite loving Nicole, liking Tom and adoring my precious Ichabbie. I call my reviews the REAL review because I don’t lie, I don’t BS, and I don’t mislead. If it’s good, I’ll say it- and if it is not I will say that too. People will see and get out of my reviews what they want, but they are truthful. The S4 opener, outside of the great cinematography, is a steaming hot mess of S3 nonsense. It’s just like the mindless, dull, demon-focused episodes of S3. The show is poorly written, plain and simple. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. Now, if looking at Ichabod stand in front of pretty monuments excites you, then by all means tune it cause that’s the most exciting thing in Columbia, outside of my belief Diana’s daughter might be the second witness. And I'll say it again, I just can't look away from this train wreck... I can't.