HAPPY VALLEY S3 - Sundays 9pm bbc 1 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS - thread 4

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As thread 3 is almost full at 984 thought would do a new thread as didn't see one

hope that’s ok

will link the other 3 below

I looked at that scene again. She put tablets in the bedside cabinet and then changed her mind and put them in her trouser pocket. He was wild with her and the main row was about the fact that he could tell she was 'on something' and was shouting that they thought she'd come off them and where was she getting them from and she was (lying) shouting that she wasn't. He yanked her trousers off and got the tablets out of the pocket. I cannot tell if he had other thoughts. He certainly said that she wasn't even worth fucking. I cannot tell how many things Jo feared when he was pulling the trousers off - being hit, being raped, being held down with his arm across her throat, that he would find the pills, that he might find out who the supplier was, and that she'd been sleeping with Faisal, all of those things? As with umpteen scenes, there can be so much going on. I do find it useful to replay lots of things because I don't always 'see' everything first time.
Now I'm going to google Alun Armstong's son - thank you, whoever said that's who played Ashley.

Armst r ong

As Rob groomed Joanna when she was just starting her A levels, I think that explains any mental health issues she might have been experiencing that she tried to self medicate with diazepam (and her desperation leading her to try and blackmail Faisal into setting her up with a flat). He’s almost convincing, but the viewer is privy to how he abuses her in private, so we know he’s a Bad ‘Un. Take those scenes away and you might just think he’s a bit of an exasperated dickhead.
It’s interesting to contrast him with TLR. They both hate women, they both abuse them if they can. But only one of them is “pretty” and that’s the character who is in danger of becoming a bit of a folk hero.

Runs in to ask

What's all the alien references?

Is it going to be significant?

Maybe Tommy will be teleported to a spaceship whilst on't run.

I think it's just a silly side story line. SW often has a bit of humour and silliness in amongst the tension.

Is it nearly time yet, is it??

The alien references are because of a 'real life' alien event when a policeman thought he saw such a thing on 't'moor at Todmorden a few years back, he was laughed at and left the force. A young PC volunteered to for a task force as he has an interest in this.

Isn't Catherine's ringtone a bit spooky sounding? And didn't she tell CID there had been loads of sightings of "lights" up at Gary Gakowsky's body?

I dunno, I'd just got it into my head that it meant summat.

@AutisticLegoLover
thats a really good article there ….and a lovely link to you and your mum 🥰

They're going to use drones to spell out Ow Do over t'moors 🛸👽

<nods in agreement>

Could drones have been used to keep people away from the body? Wouldn’t have been convenient to have it discovered, or discovered too soon?

I saw somewhere earlier that Ros makes a comeback tonight...

Will lovely but slightly unhinged pharmacist get found out?

He's a brutal, cunning, cold-blooded killer - neither "lovely" not "slightly unhinged"

He may have seemed charmingly clumsy and somewhat hen-pecked - but when he got a chance he KILLED a desperate mother of two children who was trapped in an abusive relationship. He hid her body in a way that will compromise her husband (not that Neckbeard doesn't deserve it, but even so . . . ). He has left two little girls without their mother and taunted their father following a bump in their cars.

I have to disagree with your description of this one.

Does anybody else feel like there's too much to tie up for just 2 episodes?

I very much agree that Faisal's not lovely!

He's a drug dealing criminal getting sex off a vulnerable abused young woman in return for drugs.

And he knows where Huddersfield's red light district is.

He's not very nice to his wife and daughters either, is he?

Although they do seem happy and normal and you know, take their coats off.

For us lot with over active imaginations yes

Listened to the "Shrine of " podcast on the last episode.
It was reassuring that I hadn't missed out on anything. 😀

<Gets all twitchy>

How is it only just gone half past five!!

Yay! It's Sunday!

I've had to to catch up this week as we were on holiday last week. When we realised we would miss an episode, DH and I looked at each other and genuinely had a so... do we still go? moment 😂

I'm on a 24 hour shift next Sunday home Monday morning. I'll have to watch on catch up Monday. I won't have the radio on going home just in case of spoilers.

I agree.

I have a coat that I bought in a C&A sale and I still wear it - it is a bright red swing coat (so still fits me even though I am twice as wide as i was) with a black velvet collar and cuffs, pure new wool and is beautiful.

It must be about 25 years old. I love it.

I have! It's fab!

(Please link me to any Old Stars thread you start)

You are forgiven. Sometimes it's hard to judge who the written word will come across.

Thank you!

Ooh I'm excited 😬