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Nottingham](https://www.edgepedia.org/sheriff-of-nottingham), who rules from a gleaming tower while the flooded district of Sherwood drowns below him. Robin Loxley wants her home back and her family safe; the Sheriff wants total control of the city's water, power, and data, and he disappears anyone who objects. *Sherwood* is a 2019 American animated science fiction adventure series, a gender-flipped [Robin Hood](https://www.edgepedia.org/robin-hood) story for the digital age, created for [YouTube Premium](https://www.edgepedia.org/youtube-premium) by Diana Manson and Megan Laughton of Baby Octopus, developed and written by Justin Trefgarne, and starring the voices of Anya Chalotra, Tyler Posey, and Joseph Fiennes, in ten episodes of roughly 22 minutes, all released on March 6, 2019.\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n| --- | --- |\n| Platform | YouTube Premium |\n| Creator/producer | Diana Manson and Megan Laughton (Baby Octopus); developed and written by Justin Trefgarne |\n| Stars (voices) | Anya Chalotra (Robin Loxley), Tyler Posey (Iniko), Joseph Fiennes (Sheriff Nottingham), Jamie Chung (Rose Trefgarne), Darrill Rosen (Thomas Loxley) |\n| Release | All 10 episodes premiered March 6, 2019 |\n| Format | Animated, about 22 to 23 minutes per episode, rated TV-Y7-FV |\n| Setting | Flood-ravaged London in the 23rd century |\n| Music | Mickey Shiloh, Roahn Hylton, Jacob Yoffee |\n| Animation | Toybox NZ and Giant Animation |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\n#### Season 1\n\nLondon has long since lost the argument with the sea. The wealthy and powerful live in the upper city, fed and protected by the regime of the Sheriff of Nottingham ([Joseph Fiennes](https://www.edgepedia.org/joseph-fiennes)), while the flooded lowlands, the district called Sherwood, rot under his surveillance and his enforcers. In the first scene, Sheriff's forces seize Robin Loxley's father Thomas (Darrill Rosen) from their home in Sherwood. Robin ([Anya Chalotra](https://www.edgepedia.org/anya-chalotra)), a teenage archer and a gifted hacker, goes after him, is captured in turn, and is shipped out of the city, cut off from everything she knows.\n\nShe escapes, and survival drags her into company. Among the renegades she meets Iniko ([Tyler Posey](https://www.edgepedia.org/tyler-posey)), a boy whose loyalty and growing bond with Robin become the emotional spine of the season, along with Rose Trefgarne ([Jamie Chung](https://www.edgepedia.org/jamie-chung)) and the rest of the outlaws who refuse to bow to the Sheriff. Robin starts small, stealing what Sherwood needs and sabotaging what the Sheriff controls, and the legend builds: a hooded figure in the ruins who robs the powerful and gives to the drowned. Her sharpest weapon is not her bow but her code. She breaks into the regime's systems, turns its drones and data against it, and proves that in the 23rd century the forest is the network.\n\nThe Sheriff is no petty tax collector. He is a visionary tyrant consolidating power over the city's water, energy, and information, and his machine, the Orb, is the heart of that control. As Robin's raids grow bolder, the Sheriff escalates: raids on Sherwood, disappearances, and a tightening grip meant to strangle the rebellion in its flooded cradle. Robin's war becomes personal as well as political, with her father's fate and her friends' lives hanging on every mission. The season builds to a direct assault on the Sheriff's stronghold.\n\n**The finale belongs to the Orb.** Robin fights her way into the Sheriff's laboratory, the chamber where the machine that holds the city in thrall is kept, and instead of destroying it from a safe distance she walks up to it and puts her hand on it. The laboratory detonates around her. The explosion swallows the room, the machine, and Robin with it, and the series cuts away without confirming whether she survived. It is a deliberately mythic image, the heroine merged with the machine she fought, and it ends the season on a cliffhanger the show never got to resolve, since no second season was ever made.[4](https://best-tv-shows.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(2019_Web_Series)) • [5](https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Robin_Loxley)\n\n### Characters\n\nRobin Loxley (Anya Chalotra) is the series' engine: a teenage archer and hacker who turns the outlaw of [Sherwood Forest](https://www.edgepedia.org/sherwood-forest) into a digital-age freedom fighter, driven by her father's capture and her district's abandonment. Iniko (Tyler Posey) is her closest ally among the renegades, a loyal companion whose relationship with Robin deepens over the season. Sheriff [Nottingham](https://www.edgepedia.org/nottingham) (Joseph Fiennes) is the antagonist, a cold, calculating ruler of the upper city whose control of the Orb makes him nearly untouchable. Rose Trefgarne (Jamie Chung) is a key figure among the resistance, and Thomas Loxley (Darrill Rosen) is Robin's father, whose abduction sets her war in motion.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe ambiguous ending is the series' enduring talking point. Robin's fate after the laboratory explosion is never confirmed, and because the show was not renewed, the question was never answered on screen. Fans have debated whether the hand on the Orb reads as sacrifice, assimilation, or a setup for a second season that never arrived.\n\n### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations\n\nThe series is itself an adaptation, reimagining the Robin Hood legend with a female lead in a drowned future London. No sequel, second season, or spin-off followed the single season.\n\n## Reception\n\nSherwood was an immediate viewership success for YouTube Premium: the first episode drew 7.7 million views in its first week, and by August 1, 2019 it had passed 15 million views on YouTube.[1](https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(TV_Series)) Audience ratings settled in the middle: the series held a 7.0 rating on IMDb as of September 2019,[1](https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(TV_Series)) later listed at 5.8/10 on IMDb and 73% on TMDB,[3](https://watch.rdd.media/shows/sherwood-2/) with a 6.6 on TVMaze.[2](https://isitback.com/show/sherwood-41247)\n\n## Production\n\nDevelopment began in 2016, when Justin Trefgarne was commissioned to write the pilot script; YouTube ordered nine more episodes in January 2017. An initial release window of November 2018 slipped, and the full ten-episode season instead premiered on YouTube Premium on March 6, 2019.[1](https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(TV_Series)) • [2](https://isitback.com/show/sherwood-41247) The series was produced by Baby Octopus founders Diana Manson and Megan Laughton, with animation by Toybox NZ and Giant Animation and a dance- and hip-hop-flavored soundtrack by Mickey Shiloh, Roahn Hylton, and Jacob Yoffee, including tracks such as \"Let Go\" and \"Spirit\" featuring Mickey Shiloh and Nitzan.[1](https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(TV_Series)) • [4](https://best-tv-shows.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(2019_Web_Series)) Trefgarne described the show as aimed at the pre-teen market and built around positive female empowerment; Baby Octopus worked with Google's Computer Science in Media team to encourage young women to see a place for themselves in technology, and the second episode includes a cameo video from President Barack Obama.[4](https://best-tv-shows.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(2019_Web_Series))\n\n## References\n\n1. https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(TV_Series)\n2. https://isitback.com/show/sherwood-41247\n3. https://watch.rdd.media/shows/sherwood-2/\n4. https://best-tv-shows.fandom.com/wiki/Sherwood_(2019_Web_Series)\n5. https://sherwood.fandom.com/wiki/Robin_Loxley\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Animated television series (individual series) › Children's animated adventure and fantasy series › Superhero and action-adventure series › Premiered 2017 to 2025*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/sherwood", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/sherwood.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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