HappyValley hits US shores today with its third and final season, which keeneTV says is a gripping, unmissable chapter
In 2014, the fruitful crime show trope of a good-hearted but taciturn cop found its apex in the form of’s Sgt. Catherine Cawood . In the first season of Sally Wainwright’s masterfully understated and emotionally gripping series, we meet Catherine almost a decade after her daughter, Becky, took her own life in the wake of an abusive relationship with a psychopathic local criminal, Tommy Lee Royce . Unbeknownst to Tommy at that time, Becky had given birth to their son, Ryan , who Catherine raised.
This throughline has been the beating heart of the elegantly brief crime series, which returned for a second set of six episodes in 2016 and with another confrontation between Tommy and Catherine. Those of us desperate for more of this dedicated, sardonic Yorkshire policewoman’s travails, breathed so fully to life by the excellent Lancashire, held out hope that the show could return for Season 3.
In this third season , Catherine is ready to retire and hike the Himalayas But, once again, Tommy Lee Royce is an ever-present shadow over her life and Ryan’s, especially once it’s revealed that he was transferred to a closer prison, and that Ryan has been secretly going to see him after Tommy made contact.
This tension is cut, as in the previous seasons, with the show’s knowing wit, which allows it to also feel both hyper-localized and universal in its small-town themes and family dynamics. Lancashire remains the series’ shining star, with steely, piercing blue eyes peering out from under her shaggy blonde fringe. Throughout the six episodes, Catherine remains inscrutable and emotionally guarded, literally hiding under her layered uniform or her giant puffy jacket and big knit scarf.
But again, things ultimately come back to Catherine and Tommy. This time at least, Ryan, who has often been an unwitting pawn in this game, is finally given his own agency in the matter, and young Rhys Connah is a stand-out as a boy put in a series of impossible positions .
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