‘Sleepy Hollow’ stars Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie drop by the HitFix office for an interview

With Emmy season approaching — Ballots go out next week! — FOX is making a pitch to make sure that voters don't forget how much they might have liked “Sleepy Hollow” when it aired in the fall and early winter.

TV critics didn't forget. Last week, “Sleepy Hollow” earned a Best New Show nomination for the Television Critics Association Awards.

In advance of a big Monday (June 2) evening event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, “Sleepy Hollow” stars Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie stopped by HitFix's offices to chat about one of the biggest pleasant surprises of the 2013-2014.

When I saw the pilot last summer, I liked its unrepentant craziness, but wondered about its ability to retain that crazy across 13 episodes. Not only did the mixture of witchcraft, pseudo-Biblical mumbo-jumbo, American mythology and American history maintain its lunacy, but it built on its character relationships in amusing and sometimes emotional ways.

A lot of the credit for the show's grounded appeal goes to Mison and Beharie, who had an instant rapport from the pilot on.

In this sit-down at the HitFix offices, we discuss the unexpected success of the first season, the shocking cliffhanger finale and the importance of keeping that momentum going.

Although “Sleepy Hollow” is three episodes into production on the second season, we barely talked at all about that, because I didn't suspect they were going to be forthcoming with spoilers. And that's not really what I care about anyway.

Check out the first half of the interview above.

And the second half below. 

And look for “Sleepy Hollow” on Mondays at 9 p.m. on FOX this fall.

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