Brutal, tender, funny, compelling and heartbreaking to the last – there is nothing left to do now but look back on Happy Valley and bid all its denizens and their creator an awed farewell.
After three seasons, Sally Wainwright has concluded one of the greatest trilogies in modern television. She always planned to tell her bereaved protagonist’s story in three parts; you feel that even if she hadn’t felt like keeping her word, Catherine Cawood herself would have stepped in and made sure she did.
