Happy Valley.

A few comments on this on the Prey thread.

It is excellent. A couple of the Benidorm crew showing they can do serious very well, and Sarah Lancashire showing she has come a very long way since dizzy Raquel.

Best thing on the box currently. Looking forward to seeing how it all pans out.

Fully agree RtB, good cast , excellent storyline/reality , she just stands out like a beacon to me.

A pleasant surprise as this was one series that was not over-hyped before it started  & basically has been excellent viewing from the start.

Agreed, didnt expect much, it has been a pleasant surprise.

yes  she has turned out to be a damn fine actress, not many make the transition after soaps

Excellent drama which I started watching after maykbe Diva's recommendation

Never seen it.
How many episodes have I missed?
Is it worth catching up with on I-player or whatever?
Any cats in it?

I don't think episode one is available on iplayer anymore unfortunately. Three episodes already and no there haven't been any cats in it so far but we live in hope.
Also as someone pointed out on another thread the head of the villains Ashley is the son of Brian off New Tricks.

I'll have a look later and see what I can glean from episode 2.

Sarah Lancashire has been excellent in this.I bet she's surprised a few with her acting ability.

Actually wondering if this has been posted in chit chat as no one has posted it's sh1t yet.Will this be a first?

Class again tonight,a few other threads started on it, certainly creating interest.

The best thing (apart from Fargo) to be on TV for ages. Lancashire is brilliantly hard faced. My slight worry is the way Tommy cottoned on to the boy being his son. I really,really hope it doesn't end up with him kidnapping the kid.

Nah. Cant happen.

It's 100 times better than the fracical Fargo!

But that's just my opinion.

farcical*

Fracical is good. Fargo is very fracical.

I used to enjoy a Brian Rix frace.

He were good Brain Rix

He curtainly was.

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Rita & Bob too!

Excellent viewing

I don't watch soaps so not knowing the characters makes it a bit more watchable , but you really get the feel for each character imo

only thing i really wait to get uploaded to catch up !

Tommy cracks me up & will be interesting to see what happens to that bumbling accountant

Another excellent episode. Can't wait for next weeks. Delivered on all fronts for me.

I thought last nights episode was a tad disappointing, however, it has been an excellent series so i'm not going to quibble.

^ agreed !

Blimey - that's a first !

I clicked expecting to see about tonight's meet ?

Rail is in the A position

James Norton (Tommy Lee Royce) excellent again as sick villain. He must have great career ahead in these evil sort of roles, eyes could freeze water to ice.

Facts

will be interesting to see what happens to that bumbling accountant

apparently his cell mate ripped him a new one and he was hospitalised as a result, yet a couple of scenes later he was back in the shovel on visiting day arguing with his missus

that minor continuity error apart, a near-perfect episode for me - racquel's acting was out of the very top drawer throughout 

the series must be nailed on for a bafta or three imo

I'm with Twizzle - last night's episode the weakest of the five so far. Still was probably pretty good, but they set the bar so high with the first four that even a decent episode would look a bit disappointing in comparison.

just watched the last two episodes (sky plused been on my jollies)
gripping stuff
can not wait for the final episode (6) next week

PS Sarah Lancashire is top totty

ARE YOU A VIRGIN

Bit worried about the Finale

Nutter kidnaps son, Racquel to the rescue, nutter dies probably tops himself after crying like a baby for several minutes, hope I'm wrong but I have seen too many great series flop at the last hurdle.

pumpy you spoiler

Surprise ending ... Racquel catches up with Tommy (the nutter) - they get together for the sake of the kid.  She is now his mum and grandmother, he is now his dad and grandfather.
It's a fly on the wall thing (popular in the 1980s) about everyday northern folk.

Could be a pretty gruesome finale imo.
Possibilities include Ashley getting topped by drugs baron,Kevin topping himself in the nick,Tommy will obviously die somewhere in a pool of blood probably with the kid nearby.
The Mr Big in the drugs cartel will no doubt be the crooked councillor who Sarah Lancashire wanted to expose and the Yard super probably crooked as well.
Fantastic series.

only seven hours to go 

Mrs on late shift?

Excellent drama. but don't get all this over-praise for Sarah Lancashire and her downtrodden-by-numbers acting style. Granted, she's less irritating in this than all the other gritty Northern dramas she's inevitably in, but it must be a contractual obligation to have a 5 minute close-up of overacted grief and a few minutes of quickly spoken punchy-attitude delivery.

Blatant acting for awards, for me.

You be a hard man to please Yorkie, an' ah'll tell thi that fer nowt.

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Please God no more.

Yorkie brings a sense of balance to the proceedings.It is a very good series( apart from last weeks) but the praise lavished on S/L from just about everybody in the media, including the world and his wife, is just a tad bit over the top imo.

i think she's a minger , imagine that for a missus , yap yap yap 

Tonight's episode and the series as a whole   - just brilliant . Excellent acting from all concerned. SL will get nominated for all the awards and quite rightly so.

very enjoyable shame it has missed this years BAFTAS

Would have been better if she'd light to the fcker

Lead actor from Southcliffe won this years best actor and that series was aired the previous year.

* seti'm going to bed

Looks as though there will be a second series.

Out-acted by a fire extinguisher.

How did it end......................missed it

I've loved it, absolutely.  thank heavens for iplayer, excellent writing, flawed characters and the all better for it.  As good as it it though, I don't know if I want a second series, somethings should just be left.  You can just see Ann joining the force can't you, and Ryan, oh poor Ryan how the hell do you live with knowing 50% of your DNA is that...

Brilliant last episode. First four superb, fifth one a bit disappointing, potential to balls up the last episode but they came back with a bang. Aside from episode 5 the other 5 hours were all tv that you couldn't look away from.

Episodes 1-4 were first-class. The rot set in from 5 onwards, and 6 was rather silly with the stricken Tommy managing to defy bodily science, find a safe aquatic home and suddenly develop a (temporary) conscience for a kid that might not even have been his. 


Calling YORKSHIRE TERRIER : you hopefully have mail in your 'New Messages' folder thingy. I promise it doesn't contain anything about irritating actresses, but it does sadly concern a much more irritating yappy creature that runs round at SW19.   

best regards etc

I agree Alun, the last two were rubbish, the motorbike that came from nowhere and the cringeworth party scenes.

cringeworthy.

Bike from nowhere was an excellent and dramatic shock. Worked very well imo.

Bikes can easily come from "nowhere" Have you never seen them weqaving in and out of traffic?

proper ending,well done for that but no reaction from anyone as gunmen stop knock on window shoot twice and drive off?

what would you do? I'd be ducking down behind my door and bricking it 

The only thing I didn't enjoy about the series was the title music - ****g irritating row

An excellent series.

so why were"nt they ducking down?just sitting there as normal,odd! vv good though,just behind fargo and the americans

I agree with Terry, they all look totally unconcerned, which spoiled the scene somewhat.

I disagree with being behind Fargo though, head and shoulders above that imo

lol percy,was just about to heap praise on your good taste

Each to their own, just think Fargo is not very believable

Nothing wrong with this excellent series.For those saying the ending was a let down/predictable I'm not really sure what they could have done differently.

I also enjoyed the family scene showing the struggle of all members coping with difficult events from the past.

Thankfully not ever having had any experience of gun fire I could be wrong here but isn't it possible that most drivers wouldn't have had a clue as to what happened.Radios on and people chatting to each other the last thing they would have had on their minds would be an execution.It was over in seconds.

i dont buy its a true story either but unlike you im lovin it

the old bill knew what had happened bigmo and they aint that bright

Watched Happy Valley and am watching Fargo. Agree with Percy Filth - no comparison between them, Happy Valley was a fantastic drama series and should dead heat with Line of Duty at next year's BAFTAs. Fargo is off beam except for the frighteningly and brilliantly portrayed Malvo. But our own (English) Martin Freeman as Lester is incredulous. And Fargo's story line just gets worse and worse...

Re the shooting,if he was under witness protection what was he doing going about his normal everyday business? surely he would have been in a safe house somewhere?
However I suspect one of the main themes of the next series will be police corruption and the drug barons.

Re the shooting,if he was under witness protection what was he doing going about his normal everyday business? surely he would have been in a safe house somewhere?
However I suspect one of the main themes of the next series will be police corruption and the drug barons.