Sarah Lancashire’s Sergeant Catherine Cawood is looking forward to a quiet life, but then human remains are discovered in a reservoir.
Sergeant Catherine Cawood has been through the wringer. A single grandmother raising her grandson after her daughter committed suicide, she also has had to assume the responsibility of looking after her sister, a recovering heroin addict who lives with her. Over two series, she’s tracked down serial killers, mobsters and kidnappers, and engaged in a running battle with Tommy Lee Royce, the man who raped her daughter – and fathered her grandson – and whom she holds responsible for her death.
Sarah Lancashire has been showered with praise for her portrayal of Sergeant Catherine Cawood, and rightly so.As one of television’s most ill-used and traumatised characters, Catherine Cawood could easily have been a caricature of grief and vengeance, ploughing through her endless trials in a chaos of melodrama and catastrophe.
Naturally, the latest gruesome discovery leads yet again to Tommy Royce, who keeps turning up like a very bad penny. Unbeknown to her, however, Royce never really left her life: her now teenage grandson, Ryan, has been in contact with his father in prison, maintaining a relationship with the man who not only raped his mother, but nearly killed his grandmother. The web of violence that unfolds will take in organised crime, domestic abuse, and more than one murder.
Clare Cartwright and Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley: stellar performances.That brilliant writing, though, is allowed to shine due to the spectacularly good performances. Lancashire has been showered with praise for her portrayal of Catherine Cawood, and rightly so.
Anyone hearing the title “Happy Valley” will know, thanks to thousands of years of the human brain evolving a sense of irony, that things are going to be dark and depressing. And they are: this is a show filled with violence, death and heartbreak. But it’s also a show of hope, persistence and the possibility of renewal even in the face of devastation.Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees.
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