Happy Valley - Avis

There’s a grandeur to Sally Wainwright’s conception matched by Lancashire’s role-of-a-lifetime performance which puts Happy Valley way up there in the pantheon of British TV drama achievements.

...understated, refreshing – and with bodies already piling up.

...gives us misery worth wallowing in...

Sarah Lancashire is stronger than ever.

The warp and weft of lives, of life, is as expertly woven as ever and you couldn’t wish for a better group of actors to bring it to you. Happy new year.

While there’s not much happiness to find in Happy Valley, there’s the right amount of satisfaction in the glimmer of hope that we get a peek of at the end.

TV drama doesn't get much better than this.