SHERWOOD BBC 1 mon and tue 9pm. TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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Set in an Mining village sherwood sees David Morris set as a local police officer Ian st Clare whose community is still DIvided over events of 30yrs ago when the community decided to strike and those who crossed the picket lines to work

a local man is murdered and it causes old wounds to reopen

lesley mansville plays julie Jackson who lives across the road and is astranged from her sister

also staring alun Armstrong and Joanne froggat

6 episodes - on for 3w on a Monday and Tuesday night

It's all a bit disjointed at times , I wonder if it was filmed over covid times ? Or just filmed the outside bits first or something ?
The Union lady , her speech was very powerful and just what is happening now with the rail unions and other unions too , the conservatives; history repeating itself in a way. Nothing much changes does it!

No hairdressers or barbers in Sherwood from the look of it.

The Robert glenister character has a fairly neat beard ! Some of the others could do with a haircut.
Jenny's husband was a baddie in eastenders , his a good actor.

Wow. What an episode 4 was

so do we think Helen his wife is the spy

why did the msn in the home kill hisself

why did crossbow Scott let Andy escape only to wallop him

so don gilet from ee is having an affair and his mistress got hurt by accident from rebounding arrow

recap e4

Also, I’d have to go back and look again but I was surprised, to put it mildly, when Robert Glenister said she’d been lucky and it was ‘a flesh wound’. It looked as though that arrow went straight through her to me!

Surprised that there aren't comments about a biased BBC after that speech

Interesting factoid - in Brassed Off, Stephen Tomkinson and Phillip Jackson also play striking miners.

Another Great episode .

To me the speech, although good, felt like Lindsay Duncan had been brought on to that alone. It seemed a bit out of nowhere.

Felt sorry for the terminally ill guy in such a dimly lit room. Perhaps missing the point, but someone could have provided better lighting .

The community are behaving very oddly for a village where two killers are on the loose! And no press???

Drama producers love dim lighting. In the church/Police HQ why don't they turn off the illuminated cross and put the ceiling lights on?

You'd have thought a drone would be useful. Heat seeking, infra red.
Especially as they had the attack at the golf course - so that helps the search pattern.

Everyone is behaving oddly.
That big cross light is disturbing. ( I thought it was a church hall at first )
People on a cruise who haven't come home yet
No press around
The Met showing up like storm troopers
Arrows all over the shop :(
It has to be the most bizarre drama I've seen in a while ( then I put 'suspect' on , so maybe not !)

They are using rooms in the church I think for the incident room. That's why they had the memorial for Gary in another church.

I'm so glad I caught up with the Lindsay Duncan bit - I'd missed a little chunk in the middle. I want to be her character when I grow up!

I think "Robbie Platt" killed himself partly as he only had weeks to live anyway.

Well to be fair the Nottingham Post would be busy doing journalism like "we went to try Greggs new sausage roll and this is what we found out" and ignoring the crazed crossbow murderer.

Alun Armstrong (Gary) and Sean Gilder (Dean Simmons) were in Our Friends in the North in the 1990s. Really worth watching. One or two episodes focus on the miner's strike and the beligerent policing by the Met. Sean Gilder plays an absolute thug of a police officer.

Just calling in to complain about the bloody lighting. What has happened to Lighting Directors and Co.? Have they all been sacked? Is this gloom just fashion - try Ozark, millions of dollars to hand yet they can't afford a decent light - or the future of tv? It's supposed to be atmospheric but is just bloody annoying. Put 50p in the meter!

I think the lighting is amazing actually and I haven't found it gloomy. Maybe close your curtains and turn the brightness up. Also the cross in the church "incident room" is a window not a light which can be switched off.

Oh Good Lord, Suspect is beyond bad!!

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/21/sherwood-recap-episode-four-have-we-found-our-keats

Recap

I’m enjoying it even though it’s gone from tight and plausible to rambling and a bit silly. I miss the chippy Tory councillor! I also enjoyed it more when it was a domestic drama rather than a conspiracy exposé. I really felt like I’d seen the nursing home scene before I actually watched it - it was predictable beat for beat I thought.

Also surely there would be a Lock Screen on that laptop with access to a highly Confidential database 😂 and would he really face plant asleep after doing a shifty bit of poking about??!

So why is Scott killing them all

Good question !
His obviously on a mission , but why?

That ' finger of suspicion' song , when it ended the camera stayed on St Clair ( David Morrissey)
I think that is significant.