Acorn TV
After the panicked tension of last week’s episode of Happy Valley, culminating in Catherine’s surprise confrontation with Clare in a Sheffield cafe after she drove Ryan to see Tommy Lee Royce in prison, Episode 3 takes a slower pace, focusing on the emotional repercussions of Ryan’s rendezvous
Happy Valley
In this week’s Happy Valley, the walls seem to be closing in. Like the other seasons, our perennially pissed-off protagonist Sergeant Catherine Cawood is kept mainly in the dark about the central crime storyline going on; her problems are more personal as the tension mounts up regarding “our Ryan”
Happy Valley
By now, we’re all familiar with how Happy Valley likes to kick things off. An oddball, unusual crime (involving addicts, delinquents, and often an animal or appliance) unfolds somewhere across Yorkshire’s Calder Valley, and our beleaguered, no-nonsense, and quick-witted Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) must deescalate it, accompanied
Happy Valley
Season 2 of the celebrated Yorkshire police drama Happy Valley starts as it means to go on: with Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) absolutely worn out. Over a cuppa with her sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran), she recounts an escapade with a kidnapped sheep rampaging across town pursued by local dogs
Happy Valley
Nine years ago, Sergeant Catherine Cawood burst onto our screens, chirpily and snarkily trying to dissuade someone from setting themselves alight on a council estate. Since then, things have gotten a lot more dark, traumatic, and emotionally tense for the West Yorkshire police detective, all triggered by the release of
AMC/AMC+
Happy Valley's final season debuted in the U.K. on New Year's Day, but we here in the states still have it to look forward to. AMC Networks, which helped co-produce the long-awaited final installment, initially said it would stream on AMC+, but that was back
AMC/AMC+
AMC Networks hasn't had the easiest time of the 2020 streaming wars. The company chose to go a different direction than most other production studios with many little niche-marketed streamers rather than a giant conglomerate. It was a decision made by default and necessity, and while it may
Happy Valley
It's a truism that shows on the BBC and ITV are never canceled; they disappear for a while before wandering back. That can lead to shows that forget they needed to end already, like Steve Moffat's never-ending threats to revive Sherlock. But in many cases, it
AMC/AMC+
It's been almost a decade since the BBC originally commissioned Happy Valley in November 2012. Created and written by Sally Wainwright, the police procedural series was as much a cat-and-mouse game between PC Catherine Cawood and the man who'd raped her daughter, Becky, and driven her
Movies
Netflix's recent wave of successful true crime documentaries and docu-series—covering topics both serious and off-the-wall—has inspired a wave of true crime dramatizations on other networks and streaming platforms. Netflix does Tiger King, and Peacock does Joe vs. Carole; Netflix does The Staircase as a documentary, and
Drama
In today's Hollywood, a completely original work of fiction as a prestige TV series is a rare sight. Most of the time, when a production studio sinks that kind of money into a series, especially a CGI heavy fantasy-laden one, they want a built-in fanbase from a series
Drama
HBO Max has become quite the destination site for British programming since it's launch last May. Its cable subscription namesake, HBO, has been known for years for co-producing and importing some of the U.K.'s best programming. From Chernobyl to I May Destroy You, HBO is