SHERWOOD S2 - sun&mon 9pm BBC 1 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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Yah. It’s back !!!

After a two-year wait since season 1, the BBC has finally confirmed when Sherwood (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/sherwood-season-2-first-look-newsupdate/)
will be back on our screens.

Series one here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4566760-sherwood-bbc-1-mon-and-tue-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers

E6 recap for memories sake

https://reelmockery.com/sherwood-season-1-finale-episode-6-recap/amp/

The critically acclaimed crime drama will officially return for season 2 on Sunday 25th August at 9pm, while episode 2 will then air on Monday 26th.

The new six-part series will take us back to the Nottinghamshire town Sherwood and the small ex-mining community still scarred by divisions caused by the 1980s miners’ strike.

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David Morrissey is back as Detective Chief Superintendent Ian St Clair while Lesley Manville and Lorraine Ashbourne are also returning. They'll be joined by David Harewood, Robert Lindsay, Monica Dolan and Sharlene Whyte, as two new families brought into the mix.

The first series of Sherwood focused on a community still reeling from the use of "spycops", a practice in which police officers were sent deep undercover to infiltrate groups that opposed government policy

These had been used during the miners’ strike in the 1980s and the community had never recovered from the betrayal and the divisions it caused. The series saw DCI Ian St Clair (David Morrissey) investigating a crossbow murder, which stirred up old but still raw tensions.
We saw him teaming up with DI Kevin Salisbury (Robert Glenister) and attempting to bury the long-held rivalries that had existed between them since the 1980s. At the crux of the murder was the shock revelation that one of the town’s key residents was originally an undercover cop.
Sherwood season 2 plot
Sherwood season 2 further explores the themes of fractured communities and the political turmoil in today’s Britain, introducing two new families to the town. Meanwhile a newly appointed Sheriff of Nottingham is passionately fighting local government and business leaders to stop a proposed new mine coming to the area. The mine would bring much-needed jobs but is also an unwelcome reminder of the legacy that has blighted the community for so long...

The turmoil in Nottinghamshire’s ex-coal mining community continues into this second series with more violence plus organised crime running rampant. Caught up in the middle are the Sparrow family — mum Daphne (Lorraine Ashbourne), dad Mickey (Philip Jackson) and sons Ronan and Rory (Bill, Jones, Perry Fitzpatrick). New cast includes Monica Dolan as tough local mum Ann Branson, plus David Harewood and Sharlene Whyte as brother and sister Dennis and Pam. Robert Lindsay also stars as a controversial local businessman with big ambitions.
David Morrissey is back as retired detective Ian St Clair and Lesley Manville again plays widowed Julie Jackson.

Sherwood season 2 new cast members
Sherwood season 2 has plenty of new characters and therefore new cast. Look out for Homeland star David Harewood as Dennis Bottomley and Sharlene Whyte (Stephen) plays Dennis's sister Pam Bottomley. Other new cast are Monica Dolan (The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (https://www.whattowatch.com/features/the-thief-his-wife-and-the-canoe-release-date-cast-plot-trailer-and-all-you-need-to-know)) as Ann Branson and Stephen Dillane as her husband, while Robert Lindsay (My Family) and Robert Emms star, with Ria Zm
itrowicz, Aisling Loftus, Michael Balogun, Christine Bottomley, Oliver Huntingdon, Jorden Myrie, Conor Deane and Bethany Asher.

The first two episodes wee grim weren't they.
Life is grim enough at the moment too with all the bad news, wars, murders etc. I'm not sure I can handle a really grim tv programme.

And what's with the David Morrissey character making moves on the Leslie Manville character.
I thought he and Helen were sound !

Helen probably wasn't available for the second series !

Enjoyed series one , but the first two eps of this one were so depressing and dark .

I love it. The music, the menace.

I also love it and the amount of deaths

Tho agree surely the bloke on the lawn mower can't be dead as he's a star 😂

E2 recap

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/article/2024/aug/26/sherwood-recap-season-two-episode-two-tv-doesnt-get-any-more-tense-than-that

Can't R.E.M. if I did one

I think David Harewood is definitely dead!

Noooooooo
Dead dead ?

Maybe not such big names as David Harewood, but in season 1 both Alun Armstrong and Joanne Froggatt died early on and they are pretty big names.

Season one was really good, well acted and beautifully shot. Sadly season two is yet another show ruined by constant out of focus cinematography. It's a current trend thats flipping horrendous, especially for people with already blurry eye sight. It's up there with the shaky hand cam trend of the late 90s. Just keep the shot in focus FFS.

Can't say I have noticed the shaky camera work

No not shaky, but blurred, with large parts of the screen shot deliberately out of focus. It's a trend that started a few years ago, it's particularly bad in some shows like Shogun. I was comparing it to the shaky hand cam that was trendy years ago, like in the Blair Witch movie. For a while that effect was everywhere. It's the same thing now with the deliberate out of focus shots.

Hope that makes sense, not sure if I'm explaining it well. But as someone who gets blurred vision already it's driving me batty.

Agree.

She went from saying "This is not my world..." and never being in any trouble to then being an accessory to a double murder.

Once spycop had visited her she should have just gone to the Police.....or even called them when she turned up.

I suppose the logic was that feared for her life if she crossed them. But yeah, it did seem a bit clunky, not least the need or desirability of having them tag along at all.

DH and I think it’s really clunky. We also couldn’t understand why they were saying they didn’t know who they were when they knew where they lived.

Also wtf with the detective rocking up to the witness protection house unannounced, getting pissed and sleeping over and then having drunken night terrors??! He’d be sacked for that!!!

E3 tonight

I will watch tonight although last week was hard going. I just hope the Bottomleys, think that's their name, get what they deserve.
Apart from the shooting, also because she threw her empty water bottle out the car onto the ground!!
Also keen to see what happens with the budding romance.

Ooh I thought that might be a clue for the cops to find and DNA test!
As well as adopted daughter using her card to pay for the drinks hence leading a trail.

Also the fag but left will have DNA on.

Yep dna !!!

So they've got
dead bodies of the parents
dead body of the cousin
phone with a warning message on it
bad cop on the inside telling the crime family a phone was placed to warn them
Ian asking whether Sparrows know anything about it

All they've got really is the cousin doing a revenge attack
They can't pin that on the others if they deny being there unless they look at road cam en route for car plates
If they ask Daphne if she tried to warn them they'd have to be able to track the phone back and both were burners
They just need to keep their mouths shut or she and daughter are accessories

Also, how the hell did they not hear the other phone buzz in Daphne's pocket?
And why don't they suspect the daughter of killing the cousin? Won't her fingerprints be on the shears? Not sure if it would be deemed self-defence if he had his back to her.

I'm surprised all these "alone" convos aren't recorded!

But if Scott was Lesley Manville's step-nephew and she's reunited with her sister, would she be so vehemently against his rehabilitation?
Daphne didn't throw the phone away, despite knowing about the deaths? Really?
And they still think Steffi is innocent - that she'd been using the shears for gardening?

The card!
Do the police look up every transaction then?
What if it was a busy Spoons?!

What? They just walked and didn't ask who she was with?
That's weird - to assume she was in Mablethorpe having it off with a fancy man you wouldn't have an affair in Mablethorpe