Exclusive ‘Robin Hood’ Clip Reveals the Sheriff’s True Motives
The legend of Robin Hood has returned. Starring Jack Patten as Robin Hood, Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Lauren McQueen as Maid Marian, the new MGM+ series is heading into the second half of its episodes. Like many Robin Hood takes, this series attempts to walk a fine line between mystery and myth, but unlike some more famous takes, this series also plays things pretty straight. This isn't a silly Robin Hood, but actually a badass, dramatic version of the famous medieval outlaw.
Ahead of Robin Hood Season 1, Episode 6 hitting MGM+ on Sunday, November 30, Men's Journal can exclusively reveal a new clip from that episode. Here's what the Sheriff (Sean Bean) and Priscilla (Lydia Peckham) are up to and why the Sheriff is driven to destroy Robin. No major spoilers ahead.
Robin Hood Episode 6, Exclusive Clip
If you're looking for your slightly vintage Game of Thrones fix, Bean's take on the Sheriff of Nottingham in this series is worth the price of admission alone. In this new scene, the Sheriff discusses why he believes in law and order, even if it makes him the enemy of someone like Robin Hood.
It's a dark scene, possibly because it also reveals that some of us, if we lived at that time, would have agreed with the Sheriff. Maybe. He makes some decent points and reminds us why people in the Middle Ages were such extremists at times; things were rough! But this scene also makes it clear that the Sheriff seems himself a kind of vintage Judge Dredd; he makes no distinction between the law and his own take on the law.
Does this make the Sheriff more sympathetic? Well, yes and no. But one thing Robin Hood does well is to add a dose of realism to the famous myth. This vibe lets the Sheriff of Nottingham not be just a moustache-twirling villain, but instead, a real person, who, in some ways, kind of has a point, even if he is taking it way too far. Here, the Sheriff views lawlessness as the first step into chaos, and his whole hatred of Robin is to protect everyone against what he sees as a more horrible version of the world. Smarlty, this makes the Sheriff a scarier villain, not because he's over-the-top, but because he's very, very believable.