Netflix Recomendation : Happy Valley

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I just finished the second season and it's just as great as the first season. It is a British show about a middle aged female sergeant in a small British village. Word of warning though...many British shows with that description tend to be on the light side with many eclectic characters. This show is dark and gritty and deals with heavy topics. Catherine Cawood is great as the lead actor but the rest of the cast is very good also. Both seasons are only 6 episodes so it is easy to binge through the series in a week or so.MV5BMTQzODQ3OTA3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzUyNzI0MjE@._V1_.jpg
 

Actually the Happy Valley lead's name is Sarah Lancashire. Her character's name is Catherine Cawood. I like her quite well and enjoyed her role in Last Tango in Halifax too. I enjoyed Marcella even more than Happy Valley as well as River, which starred Stellan Skargaard and the wonderful Nikola Walker (who was also in Last Tango).

I love this genre, the list is long, and I can't get enough of it.
 

bluebreezes said:
Actually the Happy Valley lead's name is Sarah Lancashire. Her character's name is Catherine Cawood. I like her quite well and enjoyed her role in Last Tango in Halifax too. I enjoyed Marcella even more than Happy Valley as well as River, which starred Stellan Skargaard and the wonderful Nikola Walker (who was also in Last Tango).

I love this genre, the list is long, and I can't get enough of it.
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My bad !
 
Marcella was very good too. I'm finally getting around to watching the second season of The Fall.
 
Looking forward to watching Longmire also sometime down the line. Too many things to watch these days :)
 
bluebreezes said:
Actually the Happy Valley lead's name is Sarah Lancashire. Her character's name is Catherine Cawood. I like her quite well and enjoyed her role in Last Tango in Halifax too. I enjoyed Marcella even more than Happy Valley as well as River, which starred Stellan Skargaard and the wonderful Nikola Walker (who was also in Last Tango).

I love this genre, the list is long, and I can't get enough of it.
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I LOVED River, and for the longest time couldn't get that main song out of my head.
 
A BBC series we've enjoyed (must have been on Netflix) was Inspector George Gently. The setting is Northeast England in the 60's and I think into the early 70's. Ran from 2007-2015 I think. I love the accents!
 
I'm looking forward to watching The River. Looks like something that is right up my alley. Thanks for the suggestion about George Gently. Sounds interesting !
 
I agree about George Gently, and thankful there are so many seasons on Netflix.

If you search for BBC or British mystery on Netflix, you'll get a good number of results. With a few exceptions for US TV shows, I much prefer the BBC and PBS shows when given a choice. Loved Endeavour and of course this past summer the last season of Lewis. There's also Broadchurch, Wallander (although I prefer the Swedish original series with Krister Henriksson), Sherlock, Hinterland, Grantchester, Top of the Lake, and the Worricker Trilogy (sigh, Bill Nighy) to name a few. I have the PBS channel as a separate channel set up on my Apple TV, although it's frustrating how quickly shows expire.

A couple times a year I'll subscribe to AcornTV for a month to watch what's not yet offered on Netflix. On Netflix, I just watched a couple of comedies, Very British Problems and W1A that were both a hoot.

I love TV and feel that this is where the action is these days and not in movies, although occasionally there's a good movie. Just rented A Bigger Splash with Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes, which I liked quite well.

I'm reading one of Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley books too (With No One As Witness), and I wish Netflix had more of the Lynley series available.
 
Okay, my wife and I have officially gotten hooked on Happy Valley. Just watched five episodes over the course of the evening. What a powerful show! My wife is really enjoying it too. Reminds me of when I got hooked on Breaking Bad in the first season and we ended up watching a ton of episodes while on vacation.
 
From Debbie in Seattle: << New season of Longmire starts Friday. :) >>

I was going to post that too! We watched the last episode of last season to refresh now my husband wants to binge-watch ALL the new episodes this weekend. We did last year then had to wait an entire year for new ones!! I hope I can persuade him to spread them out.

We thought last season - the first one produced by Netflix - was the best one! REALLY looking forward to this new run.
 
Bobw235 said:
Okay, my wife and I have officially gotten hooked on Happy Valley. Just watched five episodes over the course of the evening. What a powerful show! My wife is really enjoying it too. Reminds me of when I got hooked on Breaking Bad in the first season and we ended up watching a ton of episodes while on vacation.
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We watched all 62 episodes of Breaking Bad in two weeks!
 
I'm all for it and this is probably the only place I'll admit to doing the same, although sometimes I like to binge two series and alternate nights. I'm currently rewatching all of 30 Rock.
 
I noticed that season 3 of The Fall is coming to Netflix at the end of October. Something to look forward to. Thanks for all the suggestions for the other shows ! And my current binge is season 4 of Wentworth.
 
MarkinPhx said:
I noticed that season 3 of The Fall is coming to Netflix at the end of October. Something to look forward to. Thanks for all the suggestions for the other shows ! And my current binge is season 4 of Wentworth.
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Ohhhh Wentworth is back on?? I'll have to check on that.
 
I hadn't heard of Wentworth so will definitely check it out, as well as Longmire from the other thread. This is so fun to have all of you to talk with about good shows.
 
bluebreezes said:
I hadn't heard of Wentworth so will definitely check it out, as well as Longmire from the other thread. This is so fun to have all of you to talk with about good shows.
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The closest show I can compare Wentworth to is Orange Is The New Black. I prefer Wentworth because the story is tighter.

One a side note I just watched the new show Kiefer Sutherland is in. I usually avoid network shows these days but this one has potential. The pilot was scattered storyline wise but it is promising. Name of the show is Designated Survivor. I don't think it's going to be a "must see weekly" type of show so I'll probably just wait until it comes out to Prime or Netflix. Only "must see" shows I keep up with at the moment is Halt and Catch Fire and soon, The Walking Dead.
 

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