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Happy Valley - Season 2
In this season, Tommy Lee Royce, the man Catherine believes is responsible for her daughter’s death, is now behind bars, but he continues to haunt Catherine as she rebuilds her life. When Tommy Lee Royce's mother is killed, Catherine finds herself implicated in a string of murders...
12 September 1973, Hartlepool, England, UK
5 June 1971, Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
31 January 1964, London, England, UK
1 September 1967, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
29 May 1969, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
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
TV drama doesn't get better than this.
May 16, 2017
The nuances of these intricate family profiles are played with superb subtlety by Lancashire and Finneran.
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 22, 2016
As with the first season, the stories keep tiptoeing up to cliché before shuffling into more interesting and complicated emotional territory.
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.
March 21, 2016
At its core, Happy Valley reminds us of how wonderfully flawed we all are.
February 10, 2016
The plot is already full of suspense and possibilities. Performances were uniformly excellent.
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.
