Happy Valley, a new UK cop show with a difference
Posted: April 30th, 2014, 1:04 pm
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I've just watched the first episode Of The Happy Valley, a cop thriller set in a rural part of Yorkshire. It stars the brilliant Sarah Lanashire as a tough, but stressed out uniformed Sargeant in charge of policing her local community. Though Ms. Lancashire isn't known in America, at least yet, it's interesting that Siobhan Finneran is, due to her work in Downton Abbey. She's cast as Lancashire's recovering herion addict sister, whom she shares a house with, along with the policewoman's grandson.
The history of Lancashire's character Catherine Cawood is that at one time she was a detective, but her daughter yrs earller committted suicide after being brutally raped. In order to bring up her grandson as a single mum, her marraige cracking under the strain, Cawood returns to uniformed policing because the shift work is better. Though there is humour in he show so far, there is a dark sinsister plot as well. Cawood has found out that the man who raped her daughter was release from prison (He wasn't convicted of the rape, but another crime) and is back on her patch. What she doesn't know yet, he's involved in a brutal kidnapping......
I've just watched the first episode Of The Happy Valley, a cop thriller set in a rural part of Yorkshire. It stars the brilliant Sarah Lanashire as a tough, but stressed out uniformed Sargeant in charge of policing her local community. Though Ms. Lancashire isn't known in America, at least yet, it's interesting that Siobhan Finneran is, due to her work in Downton Abbey. She's cast as Lancashire's recovering herion addict sister, whom she shares a house with, along with the policewoman's grandson.
The history of Lancashire's character Catherine Cawood is that at one time she was a detective, but her daughter yrs earller committted suicide after being brutally raped. In order to bring up her grandson as a single mum, her marraige cracking under the strain, Cawood returns to uniformed policing because the shift work is better. Though there is humour in he show so far, there is a dark sinsister plot as well. Cawood has found out that the man who raped her daughter was release from prison (He wasn't convicted of the rape, but another crime) and is back on her patch. What she doesn't know yet, he's involved in a brutal kidnapping......