C'mon Sleepy Hollow.

The (imperfect) extraction of a woman's tooth by her semi-pseudo husband makes, to be sure, an impression, and is not something we often see. It's also a worthwhile escalation of the series premiere scene in which he does her makeup.

So, this episode was very bad. Apparently it was written by Heller?

No, it was terrible.

I sort of think that no one ever could have imagined McKenzie playing this role any other way if they had seen anything else he ever did.

Idiotic cartoon.

It's almost as though the criminal law were interesting or even relevant.

I didn't address it because I thought it went without saying, but Hamilton was a total badass. Why would you want Jefferson or Adams if you could have Hamilton, AND be more historically accurate? He also would have been considerably younger, which would add some variety to Ichabod's historical relations. Just seems…

The opening was ill-conceived. Way too long, especially considering how much else the episode had to get through. Worse, it's been done all over the place even if you somehow don't immediately realize the show's wasting time, it hits you over the head with that plant movement right away.

Surely there has never been so self-loathing a show as BWE.

That makes sense. What about (3) though? I would think Picker would be the last guy to know what he was.

It's unclear to me why, instead of a nonextradition country, Tonin was in (1) a shipping container (2) in Harlan (3) at a location known to a guy his aide was in town to torture and kill.

I have no difficulties believing the FDA will continue to be stupid, but I don't see why corporations should take the blame…

Actually as I added, the stuff aside from the main case was quite good. The bit with the drone smashing the bot was hilarious.

What's really disappointing about this is that the rest of the episode was really pretty good.

Great, just load up on corporate-evil nonsense.

Indeed. And yet the show fails entirely to address circumstances even now coming to pass and likely to be substantially mature in 2040 or whenever.

Most technology in this show is current day technology with impractical form-factors (e.g., Kennex's skinny phone, a video projector in somebody's hand, a gun that's bulky for some reason, or another than makes a charging noise).

Shows like this obviously aren't worth getting invested in before they prove themselves in the ratings, but the premier was a hell of a lot better than either The Walking Dead or Boardwalk Empire were tonight.