I grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey, about 15 miles from Sleepy Hollow, and honestly? I have no clue what the deal is with the law enforcement in this show.

That was bizarre. This is the Lower Hudson Valley, not New Mexico.

That doesn't mean it's not a mistake, and, thus, irritating. That's how we get "literally" to be synonymous with "figuratively".

@avclub-32b63dd70d870580128d83e930199e1c:disqus I grew up more or less across the river from the real Sleepy Hollow, NY. I had to completely throw out my knowledge of this part of the Hudson Valley once I saw the sign that claimed there are 144,000 residents in Sleepy Hollow. I'm down with witches and John Cho as a…

I don't think they mentioned the Bible in this episode, but I was still nitpickingly annoyed about them pluralizing the Book of Revelation in the pilot.

It wasn't as funny as that time Dewey Crowe woke up in a body bag.

So they got that it's Conquest, War, Famine and Death, but they kept calling it "RevelationS"? Why be correct on one thing and just make shit up on everything else? This is the stuff that annoys.

Admittedly, I wasn't paying 100% attention while watching this episode so my thought process during the garden scene went something like, "Of course Will is going to hallucinate Hobbs in the garden. Oh! That's something new! Um….. Is this real? OH WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!"

I did like this episode, but I do need to point out that the Vertigo plot is basically the same as the Batman Beyond episode "The Winning Edge" where Bane's venom has become a street drug in the form of patches called "slappers." After decades of dependency, Bane couldn't produce the venom himself so his chief…

@avclub-8fe36501f1fdfb4e36f74efd211acef8:disqus Huh. That's interesting. Amazon Student doesn't seem to be different from Amazon Prime, except for the price. ($39 for the year.) But maybe it is, and I didn't realize it since I've never used the full-price version?

I have an Amazon Prime account (half-price for students!) so, yes, it's commercial free. I'd call the service "functional" but not the best experience since it has a wonky design. (No genre categories or queues.) I've used Hulu all of maybe twice so I'm not sure how it compares.

I started watching The Shield through Netflix almost two years ago, and I only made it halfway through season three before I gave up on the DVD half of my account. So now I'm watching through Amazon Instant, and I'm up the second season finale.

When Helena was tearing through the house, I couldn't help but imagine what would've happened if Star City's marshals had called in reinforcements from Kentucky. That was a fun image.

@avclub-3e4d20980bad82814414cb12fecc0e18:disqus He's from Hempstead, Long Island.

So glad I'm alone in my office because I saw the screencap and yelled "Godammit!" kind of loudly. Creeped out and it's not even noon yet.

Yeah, I notice that, too. I suppose they are trying for mysterious and aloof, but they're failing so hard that I wonder I'm missing something about the time period (details about the '30s in not exactly my area of expertise) or it doesn't really matter in the end. The guys in these towns must be so desperate for…

Maybe they wanted to be a little more explicit about the connection to the "Whore of Babylon," as in the Book of Revelation. This show could be both oddly clunky with its metaphors and not explicit enough at times. Like the scene that Todd brought up a couple of weeks ago where Reverend Norman is talking about Babe…

The word AVATAR now makes me think of Avatar: The Last Airbender instead of James Cameron. Never did see that movie.

Sometimes I wasn't sure how to react to Rita Sue because, yeah, she wanted the show to be Classy. She wants to think that they're bringing High Art to these dusty towns.

What I find creepy is just how emotionless they are, rather than how they look. They radiate the "nothing good can come of this" vibe.