Tag: Sarah Lancashire

Happy Valley: A Micro-Exorcism

Written by Diana Paul on October 1, 2024. Posted in Television reviews.

Happy Valley, a three-season Acorn mini-series, is an unnerving police procedural based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The name “Happy Valley” is the local police’s pejorative term for the low-income Halifax neighborhood. It suffers from a high rate of drug addiction and crime. Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire of “Last Tango...

“The Accident”–Unexpected Trauma

Written by Diana Paul on February 28, 2021. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on “The Accident”–Unexpected Trauma

The Accident , a four-part British series, plunges into a Welsh community’s fight for justice after an explosion on a construction site kills several local teenagers. The town of Glyngolau, Wales is comparable to many Appalachian coal mine and steel mill towns. Most have lost their main...

“Happy Valley”-No One’s Idea of Happiness

Written by diana on September 10, 2014. Posted in Television reviews. 4 Comments on “Happy Valley”-No One’s Idea of Happiness

This compelling and addictive police drama stars Sarah Lancashire as the middle-aged Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood, who struggles daily between remembering the suicide of her teenage daughter and developing love for the young boy her daughter left behind. Divorced and estranged from her son partly because of that tragic...

Tag: Sarah Lancashire

Happy Valley: A Micro-Exorcism

“The Accident”–Unexpected Trauma

“Happy Valley”-No One’s Idea of Happiness

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