Happy Valley - No Spoilers Please!!

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Keep seeing this mentioned everywhere and it's kind of passed me by.

Without giving anything away, is this worth a watch? How many series are there?

3 series of 6 episodes.

I spent the first couple of episodes wondering what the fuss was about .. then couldn't stop watching

Its rather grisly... not a cozy watch.

Yes. It's brilliant. Short series though so gets on with the storyline without fillers I think. I'm half way through Series 2 and loving it. Torn between wanting to binge and wanting to eek it out so it doesn't finish too soon!

We had never watched them but then binged the lot a month or so ago.

I agree that's it's not a cosy watch, but we thought it was extremely good and had some great performers by the main members of the cast.

It’s bloody brilliant. Fantastic writing and superb acting. I’m seriously envious of anyone seeing it for the first time.

Omg it’s been the best drama on TV for a while, series 1 was the best imo and series 3 was not the best, just imo.😊

I was late to this and binged all three series over the last six weeks. Fabulous.

We were late to the party and started binge watching series 1 and 2 while series 3 was being broadcast.

Utterly brilliant.

I watched after hearing about nothing else !! I loved it so much.

Same, took over our lives about a month ago. Very violent first few episodes but the remainder isn’t like that and more about characters.

I'm catching up with this too. I binge watched series 1 on my own then had to watch it again with DH as I wanted us to watch Series 1-3 together. Hence marital bonds are maintained! I think it's great, especially the lead actors.

I didn't watch it originally as I thought it was one of those sunday evening nauseating friendly cop shows
How wrong I was. Anything with Siobhan Finneran and Sarah Lancashire is good.
Brilliant

Wow, I just finished it and it was amazing!!!

I so underestimated it, as I hate shows about unrealistic "super cops" and I actually initially stopped watching after the first 10mins of the first episode, but after the initial scene I simply had to binge all 3 seasons! It's SO good!

But the storyline in Season 1 is the best I thought, although all seasons are good and the acting is outstanding.

On a complete side note, the totally creepy part was that Tommy Lee Royce reminded me so much of my ex-husband in looks and mannerisms and (obviously apart from Tommy's violent crimes) the stuff he said and the way he said it, was so similar ti what my idiot ex-husband used to say 😂🤦‍♀️

It's a work of art, IMO. Sally Wainright is so talented. It's just a shame that there won't be any more.

Sally is phenomenal but the whole cast is fantastic. James Norton is also superb

There won’t be any more Happy Valley but I bet there will be more collaborations between Wainwright and Lancashire. Apparently Lancashire had a lot of influence over the way it ended.

I did enjoy Season 3 and the ending although they could have done with another episode, as a lot of the loose ends were tied up in a great rush.

But the storyline in Season 1 was so brilliant, it was always going to be impossible to top.

I don’t agree. That scene in that kitchen was phenomenal, my heart was in my mouth as I watched it. And then the absolute genius of actually making you feel a tinge of sympathy for Royce. Wonderful writing, wonderful acting, another episode would have been pure bathos, there was no way of following that.

But what about the pharmacist and Darius stories? They were wrapped up in just a brief mention.

Eh hello what part of no spoilers do you lot not understand?

Yes watch it OP.

You’re right. Sorry, got carried away.

My fault 😬 - I was looking for the most recent thread to discuss it with someone as only finished season 3 yesterday and found this one

Shame, I was enjoying that!

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Happy Valley is awesome. I love how all the characters are flawed, they are all complex. They all have their moments of making bad decisions. It makes it much more real, IMO - nobody gets it right every time, and I like that. We watched all 3 series back to back, and felt bereft when it was done.

Never watched any of the original series but last week watched the very first episode... captivated.. watched the next 17 ones in the next 8 days!!!

Amazing TV.

..and alone worth every penny of the licence fee!