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

By the way it is West Yorkshire not Lancashire !!

It was brilliant !!
Amazing acting !!
Awards all round I hope!!

I think he would have been a different person. At one stage last night I even started to feel a bit sorry for him. Until he told Catherine that he forgave her!

Maggiemaybe

It was a perfect ending imho. All loose ends duly tied. I’m so glad Sally Wainwright wasn’t tempted to finish it all off with a Wild West type shoot out. The acting was superb.

Yes, me too.

What a conversation between the two main protagonists!
No Wild West dramatics but far, far better and so emotional.

Would Tommy had been a different person had he had a different early life?
Nature or nurture?

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

Iam64

It was a brilliant finale to what has been a brilliant series.
Sally Wainwright knows people doesn’t she. She gives older Lancashire women and the Lancashire countryside the starring roles they deserve.
Good triumphed over evil, in the end . I liked the superintendent’s underplayed recognition of Catherine’s local knowledge
Also -his response to Catherine asking who’s going to look after those two little girls. Their granny he said, in fact, there are two grannies. Full circle, grannies to the rescue

That's pretty much what the reviewer in the Guardian said, too:

'Catherine breaking off from tearing a strip of Ryan to make sure his tea doesn't spoil'

It was so good. I loved that even as she was handing in her uniform she was solving the mystery of the drugs. How are the Hebden Bridge place going to manage without her?

I'm pleased that she made up with Claire, and most of all that Ryan came out of it all so well - both his 'grannies' there for him, and no sign that Nature had triumphed over Nurture.

Can I add another Greyduster? Clare’s anxious movements and facial expressions in Nev’s kitchen conveyed a whole nuanced story without words.
Masterful.
Every one was masterful and the controlled writing superb.

And the script! Sally Wainwright really knows her stuff. That scene between Catherine and Claire…

“There’s tea in t’pot, but you won’t want it.” And when Catherine poured herself a cup we knew right away that all would be well between the two of them.

Two BAFTA winning performances there, I think. I felt wrung out at the end. It was fairly obvious he was going to set fire to something when he took the petrol can but I wasn’t expecting that! And when she walked out of the cemetery she really did look as if she’d had a huge weight lifted off her shoulders.

Lancashire??!

Oh, I think you might be in trouble now, Iam!

It was a brilliant finale to what has been a brilliant series.
Sally Wainwright knows people doesn’t she. She gives older Lancashire women and the Lancashire countryside the starring roles they deserve.
Good triumphed over evil, in the end . I liked the superintendent’s underplayed recognition of Catherine’s local knowledge
Also -his response to Catherine asking who’s going to look after those two little girls. Their granny he said, in fact, there are two grannies. Full circle, grannies to the rescue

The Telegraph just now:

REVIEW
Happy Valley, episode 6, review: a finale of understated, heartbreaking brilliance

5/5
Sally Wainwright and Sarah Lancashire gave Catherine Cawood the denouement she deserved – a sensational end to a truly great drama.

Superb acting I feel like a wreck now got to watch it another day.

Another bit of a tussle!!

Good job Winnie was still keeping an eye out.

I hope the teacher's daughter finally took her coat off!

It was a perfect ending imho. All loose ends duly tied. I’m so glad Sally Wainwright wasn’t tempted to finish it all off with a Wild West type shoot out. The acting was superb.

A really good ending. I’d like to have seen more of the pharmacist and his arrest but there wasn’t enough time.

Didn't see that ending coming? Magnificent final scene with TL and Catherine.
Absolutely brilliant witting from Sally Wainwright.
Going to re watch without the stress.

A satisfactory ending, tense, shocking at times and emotional too.
A brilliant series.

I’m wrung out

Maggiemaybe

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

I was shouting "Oh, no, all that work, what a waste of a crochet blanket!"

Typo:
me too.

Maggiemaybe

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

Yes, that was a good line. 👍

Sarah75

Really? I thought it was a superb ending.

Yes, me.

Slow and suspenseful in parts, with sudden bursts of violence and a satisfying ending.

I thoroughly enjoyed that 😊