YMMV / Sherwood (2019)

• Anvilicious: While the show is usually more subtle with its Green Aesop and other messages, the subway scene in episode 3 is a little on the nose. We're shown a video of nature that's completely alien to the insurgents' flooded world, followed by a real-life speech by Barack Obama about climate change, to which Rose protests that she'd always been taught climate change was a myth and the floods were inevitable. When the others point out that it was obviously fact and she starts to realize that her Upper City education was full of propaganda, she shrinks into herself and mumbles, "But if it was real, why didn't they stop it?" Looking directly at the viewer.
• Complete Monster: Sheriff Nottingham is the ruler of the now-almost-entirely-sunken London. At some point in the past, he gained the trust of King Richard and imprisoned him, leading everyone to believe that the King's will was for him to rule in his absence. He wastes no time creating a totalitarian regime where the wealthy upper class uses Lovecraftian robots to steal rations and medicine from the lower classes, leaving them starved and prone to disease. Hating his dependence on the lower classes to survive, the Sheriff spends most of the series hatching a plan to make the Upper City mobile, which damages the ecosystem further in the process. Next, he sends his robots to steal all food and medicine, leaving the citizenry to suffer a particularly violent epidemic that makes the victim cough blood before dying. When the protagonists try to contain the explosion of a power reactor, the Sheriff, now accepting of death, refuses to help them. On top of everything, he is also an abusive father, a sadist, and he attempts to kill his only ally once he sees no more use for him.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: While Robin/Iniko is the main canon ship, and there's nothing wrong with it, you'll find a lot of people shipping Robin with Gisbourne or Rose instead.
• Older Than They Think: A lot of elements of the series that seem new actually appear to be inspired by older elements of the Robin Hood stories that have faded from the public consciousness, such as Robin being a commoner by birth, fighting with a quarterstaff (while some stories had him fight with a bow and arrow, more often that was used for hunting or sport, with quarterstaff or sword combat being more common in the ballads), and the lack of analogues in the party for Maid Marian or Friar Tuck, who were added to the stories decades in.
• Tainted by the Preview: Initial reaction to the first trailer was that it's yet another dystopia story about a rebellion led by a teen girl while also being yet another retelling of Robin Hood. On top of this was a massive outpouring of hate that the show's first episode and trailers got from people bashing feminist cartoons as "propaganda" and insisting that the promotional material talking up Robin as a great heroine must mean she's flawless. That last bit seems to have cooled down considerably in the time since the series' release, particularly since all but the first episode was paywalled for its first year (it's now free for anyone, not just Premium members) and the people complaining about it have moved on to newer shows such as High Guardian Spice.

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