Happy Valley Series 2

And I did keep expecting Anne Reid, Derek Jacobi and Nicola Walker to pop up (getting even more )

Luckylegs9 me and my niece were wondering that too,how she could physically do it,plus nobody noticed it.Do these writers think we are all daft enough to believe anything,that annoys me.

Think I must have missed that bit, somehow! Who did things to a 6ft man who weighed 4 stone?

So pleased it's back first series was excellent and this series got of to a great start last night.

Nobody has mentioned Neill Longbottom (from Harry Potter too) getting the sack and drink driving!

There was sooooooooo much going on its not surprising people missed lots of bits

Spot the ex Corrie actor! Seemed to be quite a few in it. I too had trouble hearing the dialogue.

So the new young CSO is the daughter who was kidnapped and assaulted by Tommy Lee in series 1. That could have been made clearer, I thought I was concentrating hard on the first episode (not on iPad!) but now feel I'd like to watch it a second time.
I've just half heard an item about Happy Valley on R4's Midweek. Sounded interesting, I'll have to relisten to that too I think.

Ana I am too about which 6ft man was moved by a 4 stone woman or sheep.

Did I fall asleep?
And I didn't realise the new PCSO was the girl kidnapped by TLR in series 1. Really?

Glad I'm not the only one, Jalima - what made you think the new CSO had been kidnapped and assaulted, Elrel?

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/09/happy-valley-recap-series-2-episode-1-scars-sheep-rustlers-and-a-serial-killer this explains it well.

6ft man was footman cum DS and the girlfriend must have manhandled him into the hotel room

Too much going on, especially when you can't hear what's going on or see what's going on!!

Oh yes, I get it now - I think I just suspended belief for that aspect...!

Errm - Ana - Alima's post at 07:12:42, though I could be wrong that the young woman at the dying woman's bedside was the CSO. In fact was it the accountant's daughter who was kidnapped or Gallagher's daughter?? I give up, must start by rewatching series 1 maybe ...

Yes, it was Ann who was kidnapped by TLR in series 1, she was determined not to be a victim so is now a PCSO, I said 'Really' because I thought that unlikely.
I thought she was going off to university?

Jalima- very helpful link to well written piece from Grauniad, thank you. My only teeny criticism is the 'backyard mystery'. The way some streets in Hebden are built it makes sense, no mystery!

Guardian link helped a lot - thanks, Jalima. However, would a previous victim of a crime such as kidnapping be allowed to become a PCSO?

Great link Jalima, had no idea the PCSO was the kidnap victim. That will help in the coming weeks. I am beginning to think they should have shown series one again!

OK - help me here please!

Someone upthread said that it might be difficult to drop in at series two - and they were right. But I am sure that with a few questions I might be able to catch up, so if anyone can help here they are.......

- has Catherine ever been married, or was she a single Mum when she had her DD? - who I gather committed suicide.
- how is the new community police girl related to Catherine?
- who was it that died in hospital? - obviously a relative, but I could not work out which. ife of the haulier boss I guess - but who he?
- is the young man who is crashing on their sofa their brother?

Well - that's a start!

Thanks for the link, Jalima. Made me realise I've forgotten quite a bit about the first series.

Catherine was married, it broke up under the strain of Cath wanting to raise her grandson(conceived when raped by Tommy Lee). He was often in the last series, hope he is on this one.
The PCSO was the kidnap victim in the first series.
It was the mother of the kidnap victim who died in hospital. The factory boss's daughter was the kidnap victim.
The young man is Cath's son.

Yes, the young man is uncle of the young boy, (grandson of Catherine), his sister's child. Did he have a girlfriend/fiancee/wife? in the last series.

Who played Catherine's ex-husband in the last series? He had remarried, hadn't he? He was a journalist and she used to meet him and sit in the car with him (a euphemism).

Thanks all! - I understand it perfectly now!

Luckygirl, there will be a test later on..........

OK - I'll start doing my revision!

Enjoying second series so far, but found some of the dialogue very mumbly and couldn't hear it... glad to hear others found the same problem , hope it doesn't continue this way or it will spoil the series for me.