If you've not seen Happy Valley or Peaky Blinders...

[OutandIntoday]

I noticed tonight iplayer has all the episodes of all the season - all of season 1&2 of HV and seasons 1-4 of PB- I've not watched PB since the end of season 2 so am really pleased i can catch back up.

Me and DH watched the first episode of the first series of Peaky Blinders and were quite unimpressed and thought it was a bit slow.

We said we would give the second episode a go, and see if it improved. We were hooked after that second episode and have loved it ever since (although thought series 3 wasn't as good as the others - still enjoyed it though).

Happy Valley is just brilliant, Sarah Lancashire is wonderful.

And yes, Cillian Murphy is quite the most beautiful man on the planet bar none.

I always think it’s hard to judge any series on 1 episode as they need time to establish characters etc. Sometimes you can tell something is great/a stinker from the get go but quite often it takes a few episodes