Kicked in the tits by life more often and officiously than she cares to remember Sergeant Catherine Cawood ekes out a dismal living in beautiful Brontë country policing the whacked out dope fiends, pill heads and ne’er-do-wells of the Calder Valley. Eating daily bowls of shit from the public and police brass alike, Catherine has settled into a life of quiet despair. That all changes when her dead daughter’s rapist Tommy Lee Royce returns to her stamping ground and the teenage daughter of a local businessman is abducted. It’s all on Catherine to fight the forces of rank misogyny, rapey criminality and pigheaded stupidity that beset her at every turn.
Then in series two a vicious serial killer strangles prostitutes and uses them as impromptu wine racks. Has Catherine got the bottle to apprehend the fiend while simultaneously battling sex traffickers, her spectacularly drunk family and co-workers and Tommy Lee Royce’s weird groupie gimp?
Sally Wainwright’s potent cocktail of unrelenting misery, black humour and nerve shredding tension makes Happy Valley the most traumatic and most addictive show on British television.
TV critic James Donaghy provides the definitive analysis of the show in this short, sharp and brutally acute revisiting.
PLEASE do not read if you have any trace of human decency, sensitivity or good intention towards your fellow man. This probably won't be your thing.
Then in series two a vicious serial killer strangles prostitutes and uses them as impromptu wine racks. Has Catherine got the bottle to apprehend the fiend while simultaneously battling sex traffickers, her spectacularly drunk family and co-workers and Tommy Lee Royce’s weird groupie gimp?
Sally Wainwright’s potent cocktail of unrelenting misery, black humour and nerve shredding tension makes Happy Valley the most traumatic and most addictive show on British television.
TV critic James Donaghy provides the definitive analysis of the show in this short, sharp and brutally acute revisiting.
PLEASE do not read if you have any trace of human decency, sensitivity or good intention towards your fellow man. This probably won't be your thing.
