Happy Valley Series 3 - BBC1 9pm starts 1 January 2023 - no spoilers - tv pace

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Just thought we could start with a dedicated thread to series three of Happy Valley.

There are 2 existing thread were fans have been discussing rewatching series 1 & 2

www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4694640-happy-valley-series-3-coming

www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4688605-happy-valley-series-3-to-be-shown-at-christmas

And for anyone who is going to binge, do you want to start your own thread?!

Interesting

Love LOVE Happy Valley … have seen all
apart from last nights episode ( haven’t read through all of this thread in case of spoilers ) 😁

Does anyone know how long this will be in iplayer for ? I’m wondering if I should record it as it comes up .

Thought so

Great screenshot @WouldJudasLeaveIt that has answered question on why Clare wasn’t with them.

Back again

Weird Alison is back in it and yes 7yrs for murdering your son doesn't seem much

Tho is on special license

Agree clutch must mean something. Why mention it unless later someone steals her truck and stalls if and can't restart it - Tommy or Neil ?

Even if got caught for a parking ticket she would just say I meant to a friend. It's not a crime for Catherine to drive it

Great detective work @WouldJudasLeaveIt with the visitors

Chemist - def caught in a trap and def having sex with jo. She offered herself to him

Her poor daughter. Broke my heart when one said why doesn't daddy like you 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

And he doesn't seem to like his girls either

And no saying to chemist I need to kill him

What a life her and her daughter must have 🥲🥲🥲

I had to give my daughter an extra cuddle after that. She knows she is loved by mr blondes and I. We tell her and show her all the time

Ex hubby. Will be be killed by gang

How will chemist get extra money

And what was the point of him lying about his son. That he doesn't have

Agree trying to keep up with wife's sister - decking - and cost of water. Stop buying bottles of it then

Reminded me of the programme - eat well for less

One family always had bottles water and they said use the tap ans family said no hill to take water

and Greg and sidekick filled them up with tap water and family said it was lovely 😂😂

Anyways i degrees

Plus didn't know /remember that they told Ryan Becky died in childbirth rather then killed herself

And I love the fact it's weekly. That we can't binge - looks at @Emotionalsupportviper 😂

And that we can discuss and throw theories about for the week after watching

What is Neil's back story? I can't remember. I know he's an alcoholic but what happened to his family?

And what was the point of him lying about his son. That he doesn't have
He was trying to catch them out to see if they really knew all about his family and were really following his daughters' movements. Unfortunately they are

He had an affair with the blackmailer loony woman and his marriage got destroyed and he had a nervous breakdown and addiction problems.

Yes I'd forgotten Ryan thinks she died in childbirth.

And ended up having a coffee in Bolton town centre.

I thought reason pharmacist mentioned his nephew was to potentially put the gang into the lad. Deflects from his daughters and possibly leads to kidnap situation where he can get ransom off his wealthy inlaws.

The chemist is really out of his depth now isn't he!
So if Ryan never knew what Tommy did to his mum , he wouldn't have any hatred towards him would he ? Or does he know about his other crimes ?
I think I need to rewatch one and two and then these last two weeks again before Sunday !

Just caught up with last night's episode. Had watched the second series but don't think saw the first.
Find it really difficult to watch! The situation with the teacher's wife and children, also the pharmacist is really hard going. The scene at the end! Sarah Lancashire is amazing!
I was remembering her back in Coronation Street, was she called Raquel? Also watched Rita, Sue and Bob too again recently, Siobhan Finneran looks so different also it was a long time ago!

Interesting range of response re Becky. I suppose more that she would come up every now and again as she is part of the family. But maybe the history of how divisive she was, ie her brother and her father effectively saying her son should not be acknowledged would make it a bit difficult to think someone might say "do you remember when we went to the seaside and Becky ... " or some such.

Makes me think that although they seem more relaxed with each other, inside they are all tiptoeing round what can be said without someone getting angry or sad.

(I dont remember the scene from episode 1, but even with that find it odd she isn't talked about, even for his sake. ie mention the positives - if there were any.)

WouldJudasLeaveIt that's an incredible screenshot! I don't know quite how you managed to get it but it makes a big difference. Thank you for your diligence!

Surely Catherine clocked the detail of it at the time?

I'm totally obsessed with HV. I don't think I've seen anything of Sally Wainwright's that isn't credible and compelling. Unforgiven, Scott and Bailey, Last Tango, To Walk Invisible, Gentleman Jack. And her choice of actors is spot on.

So… my further thoughts. I’ve not seen any spoiler trails so I could be way off.

In each series there has been a ‘Wally character’ last one was the hapless detective who gets set up by the same woman who blackmailed Neil then goes on to do things way out of character to cover up what he has done. I think this series’ Wally is the pharmacist. I predict he ends up the same way as the detective.

I think the woman who set up Neil worked for the OCG. I think the OCG are blackmailing Neil.

I love how people are spotting that the prison and cafe scenes are not actually in Sheffield and that Neil’s newsagent looks very much like a Co-op not a corner shop 😂 If I put my ex- car dealer hat on, I very much doubt you would need to double de-clutch as I recall the Mazda was a fairly recent model and likely to have a synchronised mesh gear box which you don’t double de-clutch. Double de-clutching is however a feature in a car chase when an old car/maybe an old farm vehicle is being used so I’m predicting the term/idea is being introduced for something along those lines….

Do we think that the murder in the flats acting sergeant police and Ann were doing house-to-house calls will make a reappearance ? Maybe the pharmacist is mixed up in that as well as the OCG?

I did laugh with joy when I spotted a run of shops in Huddersfield - where Joanna caught up with Faisal. I’d visited that exact place recently to see a temporary art exhibition.

I dunno, I think I'd hate someone who kicked my grandmother to a pulp and doused me in petrol in preparation for a murder/suicide

I'm loving series 3 already! I just don't see how Clare can be involved 😭 why Clare whyyyyyy

On a side note I thought the pharmacist had a nick name and they were calling him Pfizer 🤣

Ryan can use the Internet I presume so would be quite aware of his crimes - also his brother is going out with one of his victims which he would be well aware of.

Unless there's a huge twist I'm saying this series is nowhere near as well written.

I wonder if now Ryan is aware that his mum killed herself after being raped by TLR. Maybe he’s setting up revenge after this and being covered in petrol by TLR. I wonder if he plans to kill him and Catherine ends up taking the blame for him.

You'd assume so, small town people talk, there's no way you'd be able to hide that from him? Even back in the first series Catherine tried to say Tommy wasn't his dad but the 'smackheads' told his mum.

If Ryan is secretly planning to kill Tommy then that's super stupid

And I'd imagine Ryan can use the Internet.