Sherwood

Sherwood is easily one of the best shows of the year -- one of those rare productions where everything seems to go right. The direction is smooth, the writing is excellent, the story is worth telling. Most of all, though, it's the acting that stands out -- everyone seems to have been born to play their particular part -- oddly, the only exception is the usually good David Morrissey whose face seems to have frozen in a perpetual frown, and so all his facial expression have to fight that weird tic. But small stuff in another wise perfectly plotted story that not only entertains but imparts a message about the coal miner's strike in 1984, and how a deeply, truly, horribly cynical British government played the down-and-out miners against each other. A great show.