Give Me My Remote #1 featured SLEEPY HOLLOW: Orlando Jones Teases an Upcoming (Real) Death, Surprises, and More

SLEEPY HOLLOW: Orlando Jones Teases an Upcoming (Real) Death, Surprises, and More

SLEEPY HOLLOW may have killed off Orlando Jones’ Irving in the midseason finale, but death has (so far) been a mere bump in the road for characters on the Fox drama: at the end of the midseason premiere, Irving reappeared.

When Jones found out about Irving’s death, “I wasn’t so much concerned for me,” he admitted. “I’m a fan [of the show]. I was concerned for how it would be received [by the audience], because there are so many characters [to accommodate].”

“There was so much pressure having been so successful in season 1,” he continued. “I’m excited for the second half of the season, because the most exciting part of what’s happening now is that the writers have been listening, we’re four or five episodes in the can, so it’s very hard to self-correct, but they’re very much fans of the show, very much committed. Someone is going to die — and they won’t come back — before the end of the season.”

And while Jones would only tease that Irving’s reunion with Team Witness is “imminent,” he did share this delicious tease: “Irving’s soul still hangs in the balance.”

“If we get this right, I think the second half of the season has some real surprises,” he said. “What that means for season 3, I don’t know. But I definitely think there’s some worthwhile stuff [ahead]…I’m mostly excited that you’re going to get to see more of Jenny and Irving…I think the second half of the season is going to be an exciting exploration for Sleepyheads, and I hope it lives up to their expectations.”

How the show plays out is also a bit of a question mark: new Fox bosses, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, raised eyebrows during their TCA session when they said that SLEEPY HOLLOW had gotten “a little too serialized,” and that the series would be getting more “episodic.” But the changes might not be as drastic as fans might have feared.

“Good story is about the characters,” Jones said. “What [characters are] going for, what they’re trying to achieve: their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. Whatever structure they want to use, as long as they remain true to telling the story of all the characters, I think it could be exciting. How it works [if they change the format] is above my pay grade. I know that I love these characters, and that [episodic] format has not traditionally been kind to characters; it’s more kind to plot.”

“In the first half of the season, you certainly saw more procedural-type of episodes [on SLEEPY HOLLOW],” he continued. “Whereas I don’t believe that’s there the second half of the season, based on what I’ve seen. I haven’t seen the final edits, so I can’t speak [about that]. It’s a daunting challenge. But then again, this show as a whole has been a daunting challenge. So hopefully they’ll pull it off.”

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SLEEPY HOLLOW airs on Mondays at 9 PM on Fox.

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