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BBC’s Happy Valley Is A Hauntingly Immersive TV Series With Brilliant Actors And A Super Tight Storyline.

You must see this one — but be warned, it will haunt you for a long time.

Jussi Luukkonen – your curiosity guide
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5 min readFeb 15, 2023

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Rhys Connah as Ryan (Image: BBC — https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/happy-valley-series-three-releases-brand-new-images)

The last scenes of the acclaimed British TV series Happy Valley still linger in my mind.

It was a profoundly but brilliantly horrible end of the third season of the series. It haunts you because you saw the raw results of what happens when life goes wrong.

Yes, there is right and wrong in this world, even if the media and our deluded minds try to blur the lines between them.

It started already in 2014 in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

The slow start of the first episode had all the seeds planted for future development. The certainty of cause and effect was in full swing.

The people in the series were unaware of the bigger picture. They reacted based on their narrow views because the walls they built to protect themselves were too high, and only a few cracks let them see the world. Or just a few glimpses of it.

The simple machine that kept the series high octane was to have real and raw characters. We…

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