Thought the cast had a good energy and chemistry. I liked the way it took the "Founding Fathers were Masons" idea and sent it down a new occult alleyway. I am even willing to forgive the fact that they are apparently going to go with the idea of accused witches being burned at stakes in Colonial and Early America, which did not happen. Dramatic license and all that, but I do think getting hanged by being turned off a ladder and slowly strangled to death is drama enough.
But for crying out loud, STOP having Ichabod Crane speak in modern US English! I realize the character could not speak with a full-on Colonial-era dialect and vocabulary because the majority of the audience would not understand it. OK. But every time a Tom Mison said a contraction I wanted to throw something. It pulled me out of the scene. That is not how a well-educated man of that era spoke. And why did he not freak out at the cars? And know what a "mental institution" is? Crane probably would have thought it was a kind of school or university, not a place for the holding of the "distempered" or "lunatic" as they were called in 1781.
I know it seems like I am complaining about a tiny point, but it really did decrease my enjoyment of some scenes, and it would be a simple thing for the writers to fix.
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