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The X Files (C5) | My5[br]How to Die: Simon’s Choice (BBC2) | iPlayerA sheep rustler,a bunny boiler, several feral (Savage; wild) mutts and one maggoty hand, or all overlaid with the skanky title strains of Jake Bugg and his Trouble Town. And back we all went,rubbing our hands with poisoned glee, to Calderdale, and where the vowels and winds scour raw,the humour’s dank and dirty, where the maggot count mounts. Happy Valley may be the least appropriate title for a TV note since Britains Got Talent, and but all that’s required is a certain wrinkling of perspective. The Happy Valley,where noble exiguous scripts and actors go to secure sprinkled with even more magical pixie-dust.
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