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Happy Valley - Season 2
It is a series of strong drama and criminal events that we are experiencing during the second season, when Katharine brings the Croatian Elinka to the house for questioning because she is one of several women who have been rescued from traffickers. The solution seems to be to put her with her old Polish friend Winnie before she joins the investigation from house to house of the gunman who killed three female victims. Shortly after his wife's death, Nefison Shawn returns but Catherine still suspects that there is a danger in the young man chasing the prostitutes.
20 May 1986, Horley, Surrey, England, UK
1958, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
1986, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
1972, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
1 January 1963
5 June 1976, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
1989, London, England, UK
March 21, 2016
At its core, Happy Valley reminds us of how wonderfully flawed we all are.
March 17, 2016
Revisiting the series and overcoming the early obstacles was, indeed, rewarding. Not every plot twist is original or even believable, but the second season only solidifies how impressive the whole Happy Valley world is.
May 16, 2017
The nuances of these intricate family profiles are played with superb subtlety by Lancashire and Finneran.
March 16, 2016
The British import spreads its wings in its second go round, following the tight case that propelled Season 1 into one of the greatest surprises... and it's as great as ever.
May 08, 2016
In some ways, Happy Valley is a cousin to The Fall, another very worthy British drama about the criminal-detective dance.
March 18, 2016
Above all else, it's Lancashire's performance that makes Happy Valley tick. At various stages of the series she is left bruised and hysterical, and you feel every single emotion along with her.
March 22, 2016
As with the first season, the stories keep tiptoeing up to cliché before shuffling into more interesting and complicated emotional territory.
March 22, 2016
TV drama doesn't get better than this.
February 10, 2016
The plot is already full of suspense and possibilities. Performances were uniformly excellent.
May 16, 2017
Wainwright layers her stories like a tightly structured, best-selling thriller, so as well as the hunt for the murderer, now identified as a serial killer, other interlinked secondary plots are introduced.