Sleepy Hollow - 'Paradise Lost'

"Damn! My hat's on fire! Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought it was a look!"

Moloch is gone and a quiet has settled over Sleepy Hollow, broken only by the twanging of angst strings as Ichabod and Katrina struggle with their relationship and her insistence on personally supervising the captive Horseman of Death/Abraham. When Abby and Ichabod do track down a genuine supernatural thing, their hunt is interrupted by an angel named Orion. He applauds their extension of the role of the Witnesses to actually kicking arse as well as taking names and gives Abby a feather to contact him. This all leads to trouble when Orion wants to kill the Horseman and Katrina releases him to prevent this. Ichabod has doubts and learns that Orion is a renegade angel with form for genocide. He means to steal the Horseman's power and use it to lay waste to the sinful human world, forcing Ichabod to fight alongside his archenemy and destroy Orion's glowy-spinny-power draining halo chakhram.

'Paradise Lost' is the reinvention of Sleepy Hollow, post-Moloch. With a season and a half wrapped up, they needed something to take its place, and that something is provided by the knowledge that Moloch's death has cocked up the balance of purgatory, letting many things escape, including Orion and Captain Irving. It would seem to be pushing for a slightly more monster of the week format, with a new arc involving Katrina's attempts to separate Abraham from the spirit of the Horseman. It's not a bad pick-up, but I do expect to see Henry again.