Happy Valley Theories ***Warning: may contain spoilers***

We hadn’t watched Series 1 and 2 so needed to read a synopsis. Didn’t fully realise who all the characters were but were riveted by this series and the acting was superb, to match the amazing writing of the script.

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polly123

Very interesting and shocking ending from a brilliant scriptwriter who really understands human behaviour and expresses it in a subtle manner. The acting was superb. What a pity we are now getting the nonsense of the Portofino programme which looks so beautiful but offers little in the way of decent scriptwriting being both wooden and cheesy at the same time.

I might just watch the end episode as so many are raving about it.
Did give one episode a try last year, but couldnt get into it. Not my cup of tea in more ways than one.

But you won't really know what's going on if you haven't watched the build-up to the last episode.
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HannahLoisLuke

Well I haven’t watched any of it as I really don’t like crime dramas or depictions of violence. However, I’m a big fan of James Norton and following the mass excitement over this latest series I might venture onto IPlayer and give it a go.

oops. Wrong quote above. I meant this one below it.

polly123

Very interesting and shocking ending from a brilliant scriptwriter who really understands human behaviour and expresses it in a subtle manner. The acting was superb. What a pity we are now getting the nonsense of the Portofino programme which looks so beautiful but offers little in the way of decent scriptwriting being both wooden and cheesy at the same time.

I might just watch the end episode as so many are raving about it.
Did give one episode a try last year, but couldnt get into it. Not my cup of tea in more ways than one.

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Susieq62

By the way it is West Yorkshire not Lancashire !!

Well said!👍 Get fed up of everyone getting everywhere wrong Oop here!

But some of it was filmed in Lancashire and some posters know the area where it was filmed.

It's not confusion, it's fact.

Greyduster

^Sally Wainwright knows the north^. Aye but she doesn’t know there isn’t a prison in Sheffield - at least, I can’t find one! But I’ll forgive her anything after last night’s episode!

I bet she does know!
Artistic(or is it poetic) licence 😁

Utterly brilliant mixture of subtle and spectacular. What a roller coaster ride!

I was a bit disappointed with the one sentence wrap up of the other criminals
My best scene was Tommy in the car , his fear for once!

The cafe scene when Catherine caught Claire out was just wonderful; both deserve an award for their acting. When Claire was trying to console Catherine and ask what had happened after the showdown in her house, and Catherine said 'We had a bit of a tussle - I won' - what superb, underplayed dialogue. I am so, so sorry that there won't be another series - 'think I'll start watching from the first one again.

Sally Wainwright knows the north. Aye but she doesn’t know there isn’t a prison in Sheffield - at least, I can’t find one! But I’ll forgive her anything after last night’s episode!

Loved every moment, even those I watched through my fingers, on mute.

Eh up - it’s 8 miles west of Halifax and 14 miles n.e of Rochdale. So I have to reluctantly accept Yorkshire has it. BUT the Lancashire countryside starred, as did a cafe in Bolton, where people are now going to have their photograph taken at That Table.

And Catherine/Sarah was born in Oldham, Last Tango used Bolton School as the place she worked. Sally Wainwright knows the north and northern women

She also knows psychopaths. Tommy had a go at pretending normal but challenged, he reverted to narcissistic pyschyo.

Nature - nurture debate continues

What a cracking ending that was!

Maggiemaybe

“I might have singed one of your crochet throws”.

Catherine’s one liners 😍
I’ve got a throw like the one on the back of her chair that she had forty winks in.

Susieq62

By the way it is West Yorkshire not Lancashire !!

Well said!👍 Get fed up of everyone getting everywhere wrong Oop here!

Fantastic ending, just loved the fact he saw how good Catherine had been in giving his son a good life, the fact he was actually grateful to her even though he failed to accept how awful he was. Absolutely brilliant.

It was absolutely superb. The script was so true to life in so far as the home conversations went. I loved the fact that they didn't end it in the expected way and yes, I was starting to feel sympathy until he said he forgave her. What a fanattsic outburst by Catherine. Just brilliant, I shall miss it so much.

Just shows how pointless it is to second guess 😂

2020convert

With TLR out of Catherine’s life for good, but hope she’s not left traumatised! Ryan will come good, I hope.

Well I thought it superb! Just as I wanted.

Well I haven’t watched any of it as I really don’t like crime dramas or depictions of violence. However, I’m a big fan of James Norton and following the mass excitement over this latest series I might venture onto IPlayer and give it a go.

Very interesting and shocking ending from a brilliant scriptwriter who really understands human behaviour and expresses it in a subtle manner. The acting was superb. What a pity we are now getting the nonsense of the Portofino programme which looks so beautiful but offers little in the way of decent scriptwriting being both wooden and cheesy at the same time.

Greyduster

^How are the Hebden Bridge place going to manage without her?^. They’ll stop chasing t***s and start chasing alien life forms instead!

I think I'll give that series a miss.

(obviously that should have been 'police')

Didn't get the mode of death right or all those other murders but maybe my idea was one of the other endings lol
Didn't see why people thought Neil was his Dad so didn't go down that road
I'm fine with the thought that the teacher is getting what he deserves, and that the pharmacist will be caught. Don't need to see it happen, it would have taken the spotlight off the denouement with Tommy and Catherine and the retirement quietly happening

It was amazing. Good plot, great acting.
Loved that Tommy told her Darius was a murderer and Gary, the victim, was the one that had bitten Catherine and was the body found at the beginning of the series.
Ah and Ryan showed he was nothing like his dad. Sally Wainwright is such a great writer.

Catherine will finally get a new scarf and will ask Ryan what he want's for tea.

Claire will ask everyone "Are you stoppin"