Kerry Washington

1. A 13 episode season is a perfect amount of shows. Taking a tip from BBC and Asian Drama ... shorter seasons with complete written stories. Perfect. 2. Going back to the teaser trailer for Sleepy Hollow. The introduction to the show before it aired was already a problem. The trailer was ... dumb. 3. The problem with the show at the beginning was the impression that the teaser trailer gave to people turned them off and made them immediately downplay the show. 4. Can you describe the plot? Or do you have to explain it? Do you have to explain the ENTIRE show to someone or can you sum it up? Sleepy Hollow is difficult to describe. There's no succinct description. The trailer's "netflix"-y type description was dumb ... Bottom line: The short description isn't as appealing as the show itself and it turned them off instead. 5. The truth of Sleepy Hollow is that it's complicated and not in a convoluted way, but in a "its a complete story you have to watch from the beginning to the end". 6. The show is better than the description. When you try to grab an audience with a quick, inaccurate trailer, and a quick description ... you can't sell them on it. 7. Nicole on Arsenio ... how she tried to describe the show there was this OVERWHELMING awkward silence. It's a short interview ... you have a half a minute to discuss the show ... Her explanation of the show is really ... accurate but awkward. 8. You can see even before she starts ... she's not sure how to begin explaining it. Then she tries to explain it deeper ... she's trying hard to get in there how complex and deep the show is ... 9. The problem really comes down to the fact that people - most American viewers - are too dumb and too impatient to invest the time and focus into a complete story. They want a quick summary to hook them. 10. So many people judged the trailer and a crap description and weren't interested. 11. Pilots are for MONEY PEOPLE. It's to get the money guys interested in the rest of the episodes. The whole show isn't just the pilot. The whole show is 13 episodes. Not just one. It's a whole story that you have to watch in it's entirety. 12. The shows that hardly EVER get renewed are the ones that are written as a whole story and people don't want to wait ... It's a LAYERED experience. You have to watch the WHOLE THING to understand it as a complete experience. 14. Good stories require MORE TIME and MORE FOCUS. You can't just consume them in pieces like candy and then forget about them. 15. The people that consume the entire season at one time on DVR ... THOSE people are getting the proper experience because they can watch the whole story the way it should be. 16. Television destroys the idea of a COMPLETE story. 17. Most audiences members don't watch with FOCUS. They watch in such lazy ways and then they judge the show THROUGH their completely messed up perceptions. (20 Minute Mark - CHARACTER DISCUSSION) 18. The characters in Sleepy Hollow are all great and well balanced. 19. Tom and Nicole play their roles in believable ways. They take the roles seriously. 20. Abbie - thanks to Kerry Washington we even have Abby Mills. She would have been a blond otherwise. 21. Abbie - Nicole is a beautifully expressive actress. She's a full face actress like Janel Parrish. 22. Elaine does her Abbie Mills impression and it's PERFECT. 23. Abbie - Nicole has the best non-verbals EVAR. All of her expressions deliver mood perfectly. 24. Tom Mison is a STAGE actor ... he is incredibly STAGE-Y he carries around a piece of stage wood and a spotlight everywhere he goes. 25. Stage actors bring a great level of gravitas that works wonderfully with the right cast to play around them 26. My favorite thing about Tom Mison is his "swish hand" ... 27. Tom walks like he's on broken glass or incredibly delicate ice. Tom's swish hand is quirky and wonderful but I think it's an unconscious thing. 28. Tom's swish hand has a mind of it's own and I think he's always constantly petting an invisible dog. 29. Hashtag #swishhand 30. What I love about actors is what they bring of their own personalities into the characters. 31. Clancy Brown is one of my favorite actors ... (brief discussion of his character) 32. The relationship between he and Abbie is perfectly laid out in such a short amount of dialog in the first episode. It's not difficult to create believable and lovable characters with very little dialog. 33. Let's talk about Orlando "Bloom" Jones :) 34. Orlando shows up in these places that I never expect like .. THE TIME MACHINE. Orlando shows up like the Spanish Inquisition ... :) 35. Orlando has his own level of gravitas ... #Orlandovas ... John Noble and Orlando Jones on the screen together is very intense. They all have this stage wood attached to their feet ... 36. The hottest look EVAR. What was the direction given here? 37. Orlando Jones is now the black Liam Neesons :) 38. Strong characters is the key to the show success.

• published: 08 Mar 2014
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