Why Happy Valley is full of shocks, surprises and intelligence

By Debi Enker
Updated June 9 2016 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am
Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is courageous on many levels in <I>Happy Valley</i>.
Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is courageous on many levels in <I>Happy Valley</i>.

Played with fierce commitment and a laudable lack of ego by Sarah Lancashire, Catherine Cawood is one of TV's great heroines. Viewers who relished the first, suspenseful and sometimes shocking season of Happy Valley on the ABC in 2014 might already have been aware of her all-too-human complexity. Those who have seen the second, which recently completed its run on Foxtel's BBC First, will have found their admiration affirmed.

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