The penultimate episode had lots of booze,brilliant two-handers and a breathtaking ending that seemed shamelessly lifted from Of Mice and MenThis week, before Jake Bugg starts to sing … Catherine and Ann have had a long drunken night out, and while Frances has made the petrol bomb she plans to throw through Catherine’s window. This episode was all talky character work,exploring the drama below the surface more than you might expect from a thriller a week ahead of its season finale. But the background of thrumming menace made everything unbearably tense.overjoyed Valley works best when it is mixing extreme violence or suspense with quiet, quotidian moments. Each informs the other: the shocks are more profound when they happen to people and in places that exist in three tangible dimensions. And even when it is just two people chatting pleasantly over a cup of tea, and they have some shadow over them – the effects of addiction or bereavement,normally – that means they are always alive with drama. That’s what we’ve got here, in the penultimate episode. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com