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

[Blondeshavemorefun]

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.

Monica Dolan is excellent.
Rachel is played by an actress with the surname Bottomley.
So we're halfway through - another one tomorrow and two next weekend.
I'm enjoying it but it's not as gripping as the first one.

Just about to watch so haven't read from 9pm

Will be back in an hour 😂

E3 recap

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/01/sherwood-series-two-episode-three-recap-absolutely-electrifying-tv

Oops I meant I hope the Bransons get what they deserve, not the poor Bottomleys.

I never thought of the DNA being on the water bottle!
I'm finding it all quite edge of the seat, with the rogue cop watching everything although that's a bit Line of Duty.

David Blackwood is dead dead then - small part played

Ryan seeMed rather chuffed his sister is a killer

Keeping it in the family

Does Ryan have life as was murder

Why didn't they think it was weird stephie prints were on the weapon but didn't think she was the killer

So is pa sparrow also Rachel's dad as he knew her name etx and they had her adopted as young

Slight cock up when mentioned the man who killed her husband on his date

Yes, he certainly spoilt that date! It was all going so well till then!

Still not particularly gripped by any of this so far, I don’t think it’s half as good as the first series.

I don't think Pa Sparrow is the dad of Rachel @Blondeshavemorefun
Could it be the Robert Lindsay character ? Was he in the police back in the day - he was focused on in last night's episode as a spy.

The tension watching it last night - it certainly holds your attention !

No senior officer asked how did the Bransons know where the Bottomleys "safe house" was.
Surely that would be one of the first questions to be asked - who leaked the location to them. There must be a corrupt person in the police, let's seek him or her out.

Obviously the little chat between the police chief and the corrupt officer about things that they would like to keep to themselves was important to the story line but the question of who leaked the location was just never mentioned. Most odd.

They didn’t seem to question Rachael properly at all. Just assumed an affair. Made me laugh when the fiancée said he was doing late/night shifts and the policeman asked did he work in a factory or something. No I’m a surgeon 😅

I've not watched last night's yet - but this is going to be my East Mids admission of shame. I've lived around here 20+ years now, but... I've never been to Skegness.

Never had the particular urge to go mind you - which still ain't happening.

Same.

As a fellow East-Midlander, trips to Skeggie amd Hunstanton were very much part of childhood, and, as I remember, were nevertheless met with a lack of enthusiasm from both parents and kids. It was just something you did.

But I agree with @PuppyMonkey , not half as good as the previous series so far.

I've not read everything here but is it only me who's struck by the juxtaposition between the mostly brilliant cast and the woman playing the Sheriff of Nottingham. She is 100% more wooden than the trees in Sherwood Forest.

Is it wrong to say she looks ridiculously young, too?

Skeggie is the worst place to hide if you want to avoid being located by people in Nottingham!

Oh. Getting good

Peering through the door I thought here's Jonny as looked like that film

Then he said that 😂😂😂

Wait - is there poison on the books?

Surely Stephie would be in close protection somewhere. She killed someone and saw her family killed. So social services let her stay at home with three men who haven't been checked out and have now turned her house into a drugs factory? Ridiculous.

It's spray-on drugs to be smuggled into prison.

She's over 18 so maybe she refuses as big brother said he would take care of her via friends

It's just getting dafter and dafter. Not to mention the actual script, which involves lots of time and space for speechifying from all the main characters. And scenes like Ian turning up outside Julie's house, like some lovesick teenager, pur-lease! 😄

I suppose eventually plod will realise that they have Kyre's murder weapon, And Stephie's prints. But it seems to be taking them a while. Mind you, with superbrain Harry running the show...

I’ve given up. It’s absolutely farcical. The thing with Stephie stretched credibility to its limit. So she’s now being cuckooed by a drug gang that her brother saw fit to arrange? As if!