Sherwood

Sherwood was a 2019 YouTube Red/Original/Premium show that was released on March 6th, 2019. It only has one season with ten episodes, and has since become freely available for everyone. It's loosely inspired by the legend of Robin Hood. In this version, Robin is a young teenage girl in the year 2270 A.D./C.E., living in what remains of London, after catastrophic flooding caused by climate change melted the polar ice caps and destroyed civilization as we know it. And it all started this year, in 2020, which appears to be determined to fulfill its reputation as the year the world went to shit and never looked back. Admittedly, the show does start out very bland and cliché for the first few episodes, and sometimes the voice acting isn't the best, or it feels like characters do a complete 180º on each other or reference things that never happened onscreen. Robin doesn't even wield a bow, and some characters are combined with others, i.e. Prince John and Sheriff Nottingham, and even Robin themselves with Maid Marian, although they do give her a new love interest that I actually really like. Still, it's one of the few pieces of Robin Hood media I've seen that even bothers to include Gisbourne. And about the deal with the bow, when you're fighting in a resistance against a tyrant and his robots in an uphill battle, why would you make things harder for yourself by fighting with a weapon that requires arrows, something that you can run out of? Robin is still a noble thief, but instead of money, which is worthless in this "society", she steals basic necessities like food and medicine. Her "group" is also called the Sea Croppers instead of a merry band, although that'd probably be too hard to take seriously, and we don't actually see anyone helping her except for the other main characters. I honestly think that the show improves as the episodes go on, but people who didn't have YouTube Red or TV or Premium or whatever they're calling it now obviously couldn't see that with only the first episode available to them. If nothing else, watch it for the amazing actors they got for the characters. There's Anya Chalotra from *The Witcher* as Robin, Rachel House as Tui, Jamie Chung as Rose, Joseph Fiennes as the Sheriff, and more. I personally watched it at first to see Tyler Posey play a main character in something that I was actually interested in, because at the time, his other roles that I had seen were just guest appearances. The show ends on a cliffhanger, because it decided to be the 2019 version of *Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time*, *Sonic* SatAm, *Sonic Underground* (for not resolving its myth arc), *ReBoot*, W.I.T.C.H. season 2, *Code Lyoko: Evolution* (which I consider to be non-canon, but still), the English version of *Tara Duncan and the Forbidden Book* because it didn't sell well in the United States, etc. Although that last one might have been a blessing in disguise; if what little I've heard about the later books is true, it turns out that they're not very good. Spoilers, but this is also at least the second adaptation of Robin Hood I've seen that ends with the main character dying (maybe).

## Season 1

Episode 1: "The Future Robin Hood" Episode 2: "Robin Gives to the Poor" Episode 3: "Robin Dives Deep" Episode 4: "Robin Picks a Fight" Episode 5: "Robin Breaks the Code" Episode 6: "Robin Lost at Sea" Episode 7: "Robin Under Siege" Episode 8: "Robin Meets Her Maker" Episode 9: "Robin Rebuilds" Episode 10: "Robin Rises"