The confrontation between Catherine and Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley’s series finale packs a punch, but it's so massive it forces key characters and storylines out of the way with its presence.
Happy Valley's penultimate episode suffers from character and story shifts feeling like chess moves, but the imperfections will be swiftly forgotten if the finale blows our socks off.
As Happy Valley's final installment crosses the midway point of the season, events ramp up to the point of a serious injection of energy that will propel us all the way to the series finale.
Our perennially pissed-off protagonist Sgt Catherine Cawood stays in the dark about the main mystery in Happy Valley's second episode, focused on her personal problems over Ryan contacting Tommy Lee Royce.
Happy Valley kicks things off with its usual oddball crime somewhere across Calder Valley, but this time, Catherine isn’t present – instead, she’s surrounded by fog in the backroads of the moors.
