Set nearly two and a half centuries in the future, Sherwood reimagines Robin Hood as a teenage hacker leading an animated resistance through a flooded, storm-battered London, told across short, tightly paced episodes.
What is Sherwood about?
In the year 2270, London has become a dystopian city partly under water, and a teenage hacker known as Robin of Sherwood becomes the reluctant center of an uprising against the city's authorities. Robin falls in with a loose band of renegades who share little beyond a refusal to bow to the sheriff running Nottingham's stand-in for law and order, and together they move through submerged streets and storm-lashed rooftops in search of leverage against him. The series folds the outline of the old Robin Hood legend into a soaked, neon-future setting, trading longbows and Sherwood Forest for hacking and flood water while keeping the basic shape of outlaws pushing back against an unjust ruler.
About the cast
Sherwood's voice cast is led by Lesley Manville and Lorraine Ashbourne, alongside Perry Fitzpatrick, Philip Jackson, David Morrissey, Michael Balogun, Christine Bottomley, and Stephen Dillane, drawing on a roster of British screen and stage actors for its animated ensemble.
Context & significance
Produced in the United Kingdom and directed by Clio Bernard, Sherwood belongs squarely to the animation genre even as its premise leans on crime-thriller and dystopian tropes: a flooded future city, an authoritarian sheriff, and a resistance built around a teenage hacker rather than a bow and arrow. Each episode runs a tight 22 minutes, a format built for quick, self-contained chapters of the wider Robin Hood-inspired arc rather than long-form drama, and the animation style leans into the water-logged, neon-lit future rather than a storybook medieval look.
Watching Sherwood on Ktime
Sherwood is available on K-Time with both Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a choice of how they watch this animated take on Robin Hood. Watching requires logging into a free K-Time account, though the show's page can be read without one. K-Time serves the Iranian diaspora with a Farsi-first interface, and animated series like Sherwood sit alongside a broad catalogue of dubbed and subtitled international titles.