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

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Blondeshavemorefun · 10/06/2022 22:00

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

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Blondeshavemorefun · 22/06/2022 21:46

the80sweregreat · 22/06/2022 21:31

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

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Why thank you @the80sweregreat 😃

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Hepzibar · 22/06/2022 22:07

Piggywaspushed · 22/06/2022 17:59

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

Enjoying it but agree with this. No press, a large scale manhunt and 2 campers manage to set up camp and appear oblivious.

The cruise is bizarre. How likely is it that cruisers are totally oblivious to a crazy crossbow killer in the town where the parents and their children are? Where the hell is this cruise? Mars?

Julie is very strange.

Rosehugger · 22/06/2022 22:19

I think it has all so far happened in a short space of time. The press are probably being kept out due to the killer being on the loose. Anyway, I wouldn't want the press and media shown, they are tiresome. Also they aren't always shown in many police procedurals where there would be huge press interest.

QuebecBagnet · 22/06/2022 23:23

cakeorwine · 22/06/2022 18:16

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.

Did they have drones back then?

cakeorwine · 22/06/2022 23:28

QuebecBagnet · 22/06/2022 23:23

Did they have drones back then?

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The drama is set in modern times. With flashbacks to the 80s.

QuebecBagnet · 22/06/2022 23:35

Oh I thought it was set in 2004 as based on true events with flashbacks to the 80s? I did think their mobile phones looked a bit modern!

CrossPurposes · 22/06/2022 23:59

QuebecBagnet · 22/06/2022 23:35

Oh I thought it was set in 2004 as based on true events with flashbacks to the 80s? I did think their mobile phones looked a bit modern!

I think this raises the question, just when is this supposed to be set? In the first episode one character tells Gary that it was thirty years ago which suggests 2014/5.

colouringindoors · 23/06/2022 00:08

Soòooo many familiar faces! Enjoyed seeing a hairy Stephen Tomkinson!

Only on Ep3 and seriously confused already!

colouringindoors · 23/06/2022 00:10

Met guy def recognised Martin

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Blondeshavemorefun · 23/06/2022 00:18

One of the recaps I read queried the phone and said wouldn’t have modern phones

sure I read about 2004 so before iPhones and such

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CrossPurposes · 23/06/2022 00:32

Blondeshavemorefun · 23/06/2022 00:18

One of the recaps I read queried the phone and said wouldn’t have modern phones

sure I read about 2004 so before iPhones and such

Pointless began in 2009 (and the format shown on the TV came much later) so it can't be 2004.

QuebecBagnet · 23/06/2022 06:49

I’ve googled. It’s based on real life events which happened in 2004 but is actually set in 2014. I guess they might be at times trying to stick to what happened in 2004 so not using drones in the search. I guess it’s even possible in 2004 that the police helicopter (which was a shared one then with other forces) didn’t have a thermal imaging camera? And using a helicopter without thermal imaging would be pointless in the dense woodland.

PAFMO · 23/06/2022 06:50

The real murders were summer 2004.

The one thing I found odd in episode 4 were the campers going off for a hike and leaving their phones and frying pan with the steak in it.

I am still enjoying it and think it's good but it's becoming too many things now.

Would Mrs Sparrow really be a school governor?

The cruise must be in the middle of the Atlantic and they must be rowing the boat for them to manage to get 500 stompy Met officers stomping through a sleepy village in Notts yet not get a Ryanair flight back for Gary's kids.

Helen being the Spy Cop is too obvious even though it looks like she is. Only posh person in the mix and she turns out to be the incomer.

David Morrissey has learned to say "aaaaht" instead of "out" though which is progress.

CaptainMyCaptain · 23/06/2022 07:39

Rosehugger · 22/06/2022 19:21

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.

Really? It looks like a light to me. It still shines at night.

DuncinToffee · 23/06/2022 08:38

Set in 2014 doesn't seem right, too many recent technology for that. I assumed it was set in modern day.

CrossPurposes · 23/06/2022 08:59

I think the programme makers thought less about the time period than we are now. In the first episode Sarah mentions the "red wall" which is a phrase coined in 2019.

DuncinToffee · 23/06/2022 09:01

Then again, 2014 would make sense for the characters age wise.

I think Bluetooth speakers were introduced around that time.

Ok, I'll go with 2014 Grin

DuncinToffee · 23/06/2022 09:03

Yes, the red wall reference was very now. Don't think the year matters really, just one of those annoying things that doesn't make sense.

Halsall · 23/06/2022 10:24

Well, if it’s set in 2014 they could have had the thermal imaging in play…..

I notice David Morrissey is trying with the accent but he keeps slipping back into Liverpool despite his best efforts 😬

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Blondeshavemorefun · 23/06/2022 10:45

PAFMO · 23/06/2022 06:50

The real murders were summer 2004.

The one thing I found odd in episode 4 were the campers going off for a hike and leaving their phones and frying pan with the steak in it.

I am still enjoying it and think it's good but it's becoming too many things now.

Would Mrs Sparrow really be a school governor?

The cruise must be in the middle of the Atlantic and they must be rowing the boat for them to manage to get 500 stompy Met officers stomping through a sleepy village in Notts yet not get a Ryanair flight back for Gary's kids.

Helen being the Spy Cop is too obvious even though it looks like she is. Only posh person in the mix and she turns out to be the incomer.

David Morrissey has learned to say "aaaaht" instead of "out" though which is progress.

I assumed thru went off for a wee or a quick bunk up

as only a few mins

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DuncinToffee · 23/06/2022 11:19

I can see the need for more privacy when camping in the middle of the woods Grin

the80sweregreat · 23/06/2022 11:50

The' red wall ' is an old saying.
The 'blue wall ' was coined in 2019 when the tories did well in areas like Sedgefield which were always Labour strongholds.

the80sweregreat · 23/06/2022 11:51

Pointless started in 2009.

the80sweregreat · 23/06/2022 11:55

Will we find out why Cathy's son is doing this ?
Nobody seems to have asked this basic question really !

Rosehugger · 23/06/2022 11:59

Will we find out why Cathy's son is doing this?

Or if he did the first murder. We've assumed it was him but he went on the run before the murder. I still suspect Rory Sparrow or Fred Rowley as Kevin Doyle is often a dodgy character! There's got to be more to Fred Rowley. He was suspected as the rogue spy cop before attention was deflected to Helen St Clair.