Happy Valley has finally aired its conclusion and there’s plenty to unpick from the popular BBC drama’s final episode. Over the course of series 3, viewers have eagerly awaited the final showdown between Sarah Lancashire’s Catherine Cawood and villain Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), who she blamed for her daughter's death by suicide.
As mentioned, there are three series of Happy Valley. During that time, Catherine has done her utmost to prevent grandson, Ryan (Rhys Connagh), from having anything to do with his father, Tommy. In this series, Tommy and Ryan have been seeing each other and the show’s penultimate episode saw the fugitive attempt to get his son to run away to Marbella with him.
Writer Sally Wainwright had a huge job on her hands, tying up the multiple story threads of Happy Valley. Alongside the main Catherine/Tommy plot, there was also the matter of an abused woman’s murder, a drug-dealing pharmacist and the breakdown of Catherine’s relationship with sister, Clare (Siobhan Finneran) to be resolved. It’s safe to say that Wainwright has succeeded in tying a neat bow on the series. You can read all about that here. Here are our greatest moments from Happy Valley’s edge-of-the-seat finale.
