Sherwood

I was furious; I have recorded all the episodes on series link but when I switched on the recording there was Andy Murray doing his usual cliff-hanger act, again.
Why was Wimbledon not transferred to BBC2?

I managed to watch it on catch-up. Have enjoyed it; the excellent actors carry a rather improbable plot along, but I have no idea what the conclusion will be.

Thank you Doodledog. A very good recap. I am now up to date and waiting for tonight's episode .

I was waiting for it to come on and after 20 minutes I texted my son and he said it was on BBC2. I’m sure there was no announcement about that change. So I decided to see if it was on the iPlayer and it was. I hope there is no messing about with tonight’s episode.

Is the BBC deliberately shooting itself in the foot? Publicise a prestige show like Sherwood and suddenly move it to another channel with no warning (fortunately I realised the tennis was carrying on and I went searching for it) Now they are cancelling Mary Beard's culture programme which is one of the few things I really enjoy. We have the usual empty promises about making room for even better programmes, you know, the ones that never do materialise. If they cancel enough they'll be able to say that losing our free TV licence doesn't matter because none of us are watching anything.

Is it not available on I player? That's where I look for displaced programmes. I'm recording it anyway. Looking forward to watching it tomorrow pm. No spoilers please!!

Well I'm not sure about that ending.

I don’t know why they don’t just put all the tennis on BBC2. It would save us having to keep swapping around. Not everyone wants to watch tennis all the time.

I found the ending depressing.

B****y tennis. I recorded Extraordinary Portraits, settled down to watch it but no. Tennis

dragonfly46

I don’t know why they don’t just put all the tennis on BBC2. It would save us having to keep swapping around. Not everyone wants to watch tennis all the time.

Why do they keep interrupting the tennis with loud adverts for BBC3 which no-one watches anyway?
Why not turn it into a dedicated sports channel?

I've just read that there's going to be a second series.

I wonder what the second series will be about.

The 'old sins cast long shadows' thing has been thoroughly explored in this one, so unless there is something new that connects the spies-poets it's difficult to know. It would be a shame to lose such an excellent cast though. I hope they keep them all in the next series.

I was disappointed with tonight's episode.

So was I.

Intelligent, and realistic, and certainly unexpected with regard to the perpetrator's motives,(although I did wonder if the cast would exit hand in hand to a chorus of 'There's a place for us.')

I thought the ending was a bit of a damp squib.

Don’t know what a second series will be about, but I suspect it will a disappointment, as many follow ups of a successful first series are.

There should have been a better ending and not think about a second series. Better to leave on a high but last night certainly was not- more a damp squib.

Another who was not enamoured with the ending, cannot see myself watching a second series.

The series started well but fizzled out towards the end.

Good series but glad I'm not the only one disappointed with the ending.

I think the ending was realistic and the problem is we are now programmed to expect a big shoot out and /or car chase, whereas real life isn't like that. It simply showed that what we believe about people isn't always true, and the policemen's absolute obsession with the miner's strike led them down wrong paths.

Enjoyed it but agree the ending fizzled out rather. The change to BBC2 on Monday was announced with a written announcement along the bottom of the screen. Blink and you’d miss it. I don’t know why the tennis couldn’t be on one dedicated channel, we’re not all tennis fans.

Glorianny

I think the ending was realistic and the problem is we are now programmed to expect a big shoot out and /or car chase, whereas real life isn't like that. It simply showed that what we believe about people isn't always true, and the policemen's absolute obsession with the miner's strike led them down wrong paths.

I think that's true, Glorianny. Not just the police, either - at the end when they were in the meeting, everyone's points were about the strike and its aftermath.

They were very divisive times, though; and I'm not sure that the implicit message that everyone was 'as bad as' everyone else was appropriate, really. It's for the people who were involved to decide whether or whom to forgive, not the writer.

I still think it was an excellent series, though - both well-written and well acted. I'll definitely give series 2 a chance when it's screened.

I thought the last episode placed the blame firmly on the shoulders of politicians and powerful people with the speech about what"they" had done, and were still doing, and said both sides were manipulated.
I'm looking forward to series 2. I wonder if Ian St Claire will stray? I thought there was some attraction between him and the widow!

The thing is that it was based on a true story, which is very rarely as neat and satisfying as fiction. I think I lost sight of that when I thought the last episode was a bit 'lacking'.

The family of one victim is very upset that it has been serialised on TV.

However, it's also an important part of history unless it has been fictionalised too much.