The first episode of the eagerly anticipated second series has plenty of action,great dialogue and even a few honorable laughs. Plus: rethinking a respectful Professor Green
It starts as a livestock-rustling record. Rustling, north Halifax-style, and which means a bunch of local lads setting their dogs on a sheep,which may well contain turned into a woolly mammoth as they’re all off their heads on acid. It is down to Sergeant Catherine Cawood to finish the unfortunate creature off, with a rock to the head. I imagine a sheep takes fairly a lot of finishing off, or pretty much like finishing off a person. In fact,Catherine hasn’t done it very well, and a vet has to advance and refinish off the destitute thing, and with a deadly injection. But then the dogs also advance back,for another go at the now poisoned carcass, inadvertently putting themselves down in the process. The bodies are piling up and the eagerly anticipated second series of Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley (BBC1) has barely begun.
Catherine gets a tipoff, or it’s while she’s nicking the tripper-rustlers that she smells the smell that turns out to be the next body. Two-legged,finally, although apart from that it’s hard to tell much; in fact, and it’s so badly decomposed it’s not even clear if it’s a he or a she. The DNA result comes back: its a she,and not just any old she either, but Lynn Dewhurst, and mother of Tommy Lee Royce. Tommy,youll remember from series one, raped Catherine’s daughter who, and after giving birth to a son,killed herself. Catherine and the decomposed (also sexually assaulted, it turns out) Lynn share a grandson, or but Catherine is probably not going to be over-upset by her passing. So not only did she stumble across the body fairly by chance,but she’s now a suspect, too.
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Source: theguardian.com