Happy Valley Series 3 - BBC1 9pm started 1 January 2023 - no spoilers - tv pace – thread 2

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First thread is nearly full but please check if still room to post by going to www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4710280-happy-valley-series-3-bbc1-9pm-starts-1-january-2023-no-spoilers-tv-pace?page=40

And once it is welcome to everyone. Looking forward to any number of theories and learning things one never wanted to know about like tiny phones.

Checking in!

Thanks!

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There's a good podcast on bbc sounds called Obsessed With happy valley - apologies if everyone knows this already!

Thanks @IwantToRetire

Thanks for the new thread!

It's a bit rambly, but quite entertaining. I particularly liked the reference to Chekhov's clutch in the last episode!

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Id recommend the Shrinepod one for Happy Valley as well. I started when they were dissecting Line of Duty and they are so entertaining at this kind of thing.

Lots of stuff that I didn’t pick up on as well.

Both obsessed with and shrine are well worth a listen! I enjoy both, shrine does a bit more speculation, obsessed with seems a little less analytical.

Re the phones, I read The Governor by Vanessa Frake recently, she's a former governor at wormwood scrubs, and she spoke about how phones are the most problematic contraband in prison and they go to great lengths to stop the prisoners having them but they go further and further in efforts to get them in. She spoke about one visitor bringing in five phones during one visit.

I was fairly shocked by the number she'd concealed up herself when I read the book and only marginally less so now I have seen the tiny arse phone!

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How the heck do they retrieve the phones when they're visiting someone in full view of everyone??

I suspect once through security they go to the loo to retrieve rather than go rummaging around their nether regions in the visitors hall

I don't know - I read somewhere that as there are few POs observing they often just wait until they glance away to rummage in their f*nnies and extract the merchandise. I daresay you'd fasten the bag with a string, like a tampon, and it would easily be removed.

Ow do.

The one in the book was fraudulently claiming to be a legal representative so she was getting to see prisoners in private where she could have a rummage and provide them with their phone.

I wonder whether an arse phone was worth less than a fanny phone 🤔

If I remember correctly she'd managed to squeeze in some drugs too!

Posting in anticipation...

I probably won't hear any podcasts so any interesting points welcomed!

Ow do. 'appen I'll settle in here then

<Retrieves tiny phone from nether regions>

Does anyone remember Prisoners wives from about 10 years ago? They had a scene with an older woman trying to smuggle drugs in for her son... (went wrong...)

'Ey oop.

Thanks for new thread

hooray for this.

have literally just got back from sheffield with our ryan. shit. leeds. i means leeds.

he went shopping, i had coffee. then i had an intervention with cc.
looking forwards to sunday night and i haven't watched the trailer so i will be watching agog (my favourite word atm) and saluting sally wainwright.

Anyone else fancy Rick Warden playing Mike taylor ?
He is definitely my type
I've never seen him in anything before

Yes @the80sweregreat

I loved that show!!
The image this thread is building! A little bag with a tiny phone and some drugs in, to be retrieved like a tampon… what a care package, what a life.

Yy! I even remember that scene!