The day it aired its last episode and thus definitively closed its exciting story, half of the British television audience that night was hooked by the end. Three years have passed since that (and eleven since the broadcast of the first episode), and now the extraordinary ‘Happy Valley‘has landed, without subscription or registration, in the catalog of TV Artcompletely free access.
In this BBC series We will meet police sergeant Catherine Cawood in Halifax, West Yorkshire, who combines daily work in an area plagued by drugs and low-level crime with a personal life marked by the suicide of her teenage daughter. Catherine raises her grandson, lives with her sister, a former recovering addict, and carries a deep resentment towards the man she considers indirectly responsible for that tragedy. When he leaves prison and returns to the area, he is involved in a kidnapping that crosses his path again with that of Catherine.
Each of the three seasons of the series develops a different criminal case, but maintains the pulse between both characters and the portrait of Catherine’s degraded family environment. And all this without leaving the Calderdale region, which It works almost like another character, with its closed climate and its battered economy. due to deindustrialization. The third and final season closed the story with 7.5 million viewers and an incredible share 41.6%, very rare figures to see today.
‘Happy Valley’ is one of the best pieces of that fascinating subgenre that is the British rural police drama, which series like ‘Broadchurch’ or ‘Line of Duty’ had previously cultivated. This plot is also close to ‘The Hunt’ or ‘Mare of Easttown’: an exhausted researcher who brings her personal life to the center of the plot. In any case, this multi-award-winning and highly praised three-part story has its own personality and is worth recovering. Especially now that you have it just a click away.
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