SHERWOOD SEASON 2
Episodes 4, 5 & 6

Dir: Tom George, Prod: Kate Ogborn for BBC by House Productions

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"Like the original, it’s stuffed to the gills with brilliant performances. The old guard – Manville, Morrissey, Ashbourne – remain immaculate. And the new introductions, from stalwarts like Harewood, Dolan and Dillane to relative newcomers like Huntingdon – who radiates a mixture of pain, need and dangerous fury that has you watching in horrified anticipation of the moment of combustion – join them seamlessly.

In a way, it feels more timely than the first Sherwood did, deeply though the original resonated. This time, you don’t have to have any memory of a specific event like the miners’ strikes (which feel like ancient history to so many, though you can hardly believe it). The latest outing chimes with our growing contemporary anxiety about fragmenting communities, about alienation, about the malevolent figures who rush to fill a vacuum created by unemployment, poverty and unmet needs of all kinds. We are in an age of unrest. The new Sherwood looks to how and why we got there. I hope Julie can have a crack at solving us again."

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Link to The Guardian Review