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

Who was the actor that Joanne Froggatt gave the Tory leaflet to?

No. The cab driver is related (son presumably) to the family that run the archery and axe throwing firm while the man in the tent was the one with the computers and stash of money.

I hope that's right.

It seems most odd that Vicky McClure wasn't in it 😀

I thought granddaughter of dead man's boyfriend was the son of archery people (with curly brown hair). So taxi driver is his brother? Had we seen taxi man before in the episode?

I might need to rewatch

so the killer is the nephew of Gary. Freds son?

unusual to find out the killer in e1

Thought this was fab, really loking forward to ep 2! Great review and recap in Guardian.

Everyone round here is saying the reason Alun Armstrong copped it is because he said NOTTS Forest at the start. Huge faux pas if you’re genuinely from Nottinghamshire.

Okay the guardian recap confirms 2 different young blondish men.
Fred was arrow man in woods, off to jail

Rory is son of swallow family and drives taxi

I was also waiting for Vicky McClure to make an appearance, although it took me a while to recognise Perry Fitzpatrick for some reason.

Does anyone know the filming location for the village?

Placemarking.

I'm from the town that the story is "loosely based on"

I shall get cross with the accent I expect. Joanne Frogatt isn't bad at doing us, but I agree they needed Vicky Mc or Neil Morrissey to help out.

Andrea Lowe, who’s playing the blonde female cop, is from Nottingham, her accent is authentic.

Another recap here

hinting at many killers. Gary was not a liked man !!

Was it too obvious to be Scott and we are made to think it’s him

maybe he’s running due to money stashed away

Plus paddy from shameless was in it

lots of well known faces. A very good cast !!

Joanne Froggatt. Though I haven't seen the first episode yet!

And Big Mac from casualty

im Thinking too obvious to be Scott

Scott’s dad with the cough was in Happy Valley

Yes it did indeed sound yorkshire, with the odd "duck" thrown in which sounded random and not authentic.

Overall I did enjoy it though, we live very close to Sherwood so will be interesting to see if they actually did film around there.

The only person missing was Nottinghams very own Vicky McLure.

🤣

Thought it was really good. Agree loads of v well known actors. David Morrissey always seems to play 'the man in charge' , Pip Torrens plays v similar parts but is brilliant at it.
Good to see Joanne Froggatt playing a right cow instead of a wet victim type.

So do we think it’s Scott or that that it’s someone else who killed Gary

I need someone to go to an ice cream van and ask for an "Orange sucker" for genuine authenticity!

Impressed!
(I thought you were going to say "third football playing kid from the left"!)

I'll go.
And I'll gu t' foot er ar stairs if they ant got none.
(Baaaaaad transcription there, but the sort of thing I torment my efl students with at summer school)

I’m another who’s quite local to Sherwood (and my mum is from Mansfield). Yes the accents aren’t right. Dh who’s from Yorkshire thought it was set in Yorkshire.

Thanks PAFMO. I think that was an excellent phonetic interpretation! I was transported back with every bit of it.