Happy Valley Series 2

I would like to know why the police just stood gawping when John was on the bridge. They could have at least stopped the traffic!

I enjoyed the series, and like jings have the sub-titles on all the time, but the other half said he found some of the dialogue really difficult to follow - his eyes are not good enough to catch up with the sub-titles. That apart I thought it was very engrossing and quite sad in places, so many different lives.

gettingonabit - I think Darryl's personality issues (to put it simply) were explained when his mother told Catherine her son was the result of incestuous abuse by his grandfather.
Great conclusion wasn't it. Sally Wainwright is evidently writing series 3 right now.

Pittcity that made me laugh out loud. (Yes. Why didn't they?!)

Ryan looked such a happy, carefree little lad in the final scenes. No wonder a shadow crossed his gran's face, knowing that that could change so drastically, his dad being who he is.

I'd quite to watch it all again, but I'm still catching up with Trapped. And I missed Sunday's Night Manager, so there's that to watch. So much on at the moment, and in the summer we shall probably have nothing worth watching.

When's Poldark coming back?

There is one in the pipeline called The Living and the Dead. Could be epic. Or could be crap.

Sarah Lancashire has said on Twitter that there will be a third series. Plenty of scope for that.
What is Line of Duty like? Worth watching if you haven't seen the previous series?

Sorry I am sick to death of Katherine. She seems to be a cross between Mother Theresa and Superman. Always there when needed (OK she could have taken the info in and met the guilty copper, but then she's the one to get the statement from the wife's lover, they meet GC as he is leaving, she jumps into a car and pursues) Always ready to talk to people, woman who has targeted her grandson, woman who shot her own son. And shouldn't she be on a charge for disobeying orders and chasing man to his death? The rest of the coppers of course just stood and watched. I think there wasn't enough in the budget for a fire so the ending had to be less catastrophic.

I did wonder what Nevison had ever done to you Jalima


Daryl being guilty of those hideous crimes still doesn't ring quite true with me though.

One or two other things puzzled me - surely, if Frances used her sister's references and they were followed up and she had all the checks done (the headmistress was apparently meticulous about that) someone somewhere would have realised the sister was dead? Or am I getting

And are Cat A prisoners allowed that many visits from all those women? They would have to go through security checks too - did no-one realise she was using her dead sister's references?

Well she only had 6 hours to do it all in.

That was to Trisher by the way

There seem to be a lot of police for a small town
Ours are very thin on the ground

Correction - there are a lot of detectives but not many police!

iam I don't know how, but I somehow missed the bit where the mother told Darryl he'd been abused. I actually thought that the mother had bern abused by her father and had then given birth to Ryan. I need to watch again.....

Yes, that's right gettingonabit (that's what iam said I think).

gettingonabit, Daryl's mother told Catherine that her father had 'interfered with her' and that Daryl was the result, and why they had kept to themselves and been mocked by the other villagers.

We didn't see her actually saying this, Catherine was telling someone else about it.

It was a busy police station. The market town, where my second home is, has a police station that is open only on weekdays and for a certain number of hours each day.

My confusion was how the hell the TA got to work in a school. Surely a police check would have shown up her dead sister. They are super careful. OFSTED would be down on the Head like a ton of bricks.

How does the policewoman keep sane with all she has been through? Exciting TY however.

All the good stuff is coming to an end. at once....what to watch?

Thanks ana and jalima. That must've been a particularly mumbly bit (I think it was around Becky's grave, said to Claire?).

I'm with trisher on the Catherine issue. I'm surprised she hasn't been sacked for insubordination. She was categorically told not to pursue John down the tracks, and she tried to talk him down from the bridge without training. She may well have caused his death (which may not be quite such a bad thing) but he won't be able to stand trial.

She did the same thing ay the end of series 1 too; she went in after TLR against the orders of her bosses, whilst already been in trouble for something else.

There appears to be a new Danish thriller on this Saturday in place of Trapped. It is a double with sub titles. I have no idea if that is that or if there are more episodes like in Trapped. I cannot remember the title but it is on BBC4 at 9pm on Saturday for 2 hours.

I do agree that the way the TA stole someone else's identity was a bit weird - I would have thought that those approached for references might have been able to remember that the lady had died.

lucky I was thinking of the DBS check too. Surely the application would have thrown up the fact that the applicant was deceased

Especially as it was mentioned that the HT was very meticulous about following up references .....

and she tried to talk him down from the bridge without training
That was a moment of black humour though - John had been trained and Catherine asked him what she was supposed to be saying to him!