Overview
Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.
Sherwood grounds its investigation in the bruised landscape of a Nottinghamshire mining community. The series avoids the standard procedural beats of modern crime fiction, choosing instead to focus on how historical grievances fuel modern tension. A public manhunt serves as the catalyst, but the true subject is the splintered loyalties of neighbors who have lived side by side for decades.
Lesley Manville leads a dense ensemble cast that emphasizes collective history over individual heroics. The narrative treats the mystery not merely as a puzzle to be solved, but as a byproduct of a town struggling with its own identity. By tying the central killings to the long-reaching aftershocks of a strike, the show frames criminal behavior as a symptom of a much deeper, pervasive social fracture.
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- First Aired
- June 13, 2022
- Status
- Returning Series
- Origin
- GB
- TMDB Votes
- 79