‘Attention to detail is everything!’ Happy Valley fans point to a ‘cool’ nod to season one in a tense exchange between Catherine and her grandson Ryan
Happy Valley is coming to an end with the penultimate episode airing on Sunday night.
But fans were left remembering the opening episodes of the hit BBC drama thanks to a ‘great’ nod to the first season in the latest installment from writer Sally Wainwright.
Most of Sunday night’s episode was devoted to Tommy Lee Royce’s (James Norton) grand plan to reunite with his son Ryan (Rhys Connah) and wrap up his ‘unfinished business’ with Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire), but the Fans were excited to see a subtle reference to the rocky relationship between grandmother and grandson.
You saw it? Happy Valley fans were left reminiscing about the drama’s opening episodes thanks to a ‘cool’ nod to the first season in the latest installment.
After Ryan ran away to his uncle’s house, a furious Catherine went looking for him.
After berating him for his ‘fucking dumb’ decision to go AWOL when his murderous father Tommy was on the loose, Catherine went back into granny mode and corrected her teenage grandson’s grammar.
It shouldn’t have left. He shouldn’t have left me with Ros’, Ryan told her why she ran away from her grandpa’s house.
‘I shouldn’t have, for God’s sake!’ Catherine was furious.
Grandma: Most of Sunday’s episode was devoted to Tommy’s plan to reunite with his son Ryan, but fans were excited to see a subtle reference to the grandmother/grandson relationship.
Flashback: Viewers pointed out that the exchange was similar to a conversation between the two characters in season one, when Catherine was questioning Ryan, then nine years old.
Talent: Rhys has played Ryan in all three series, and his writer reveals that he deliberately left a seven-year gap between series two and three to allow Rhys to return as a teenager.
Viewers pointed out that the exchange was uncannily similar to a conversation between the two characters in season one, when Catherine was questioning Ryan, then nine, about his behavior at school.
Did you break the painting? Catherine asked. ‘I could,’ Ryan replied. “You couldn’t do anything, it’s not a verb,” she replied.
“Nothing changes, and that’s part of the genius that is Sally Wainwright,” cheered one fan.
‘Best line!’ “Nothing changes, and that’s part of the genius that is Sally Wainwright,” said one fan of the series.
“Catherine corrected Ryan’s grammar just as she did in series 1, but so subtly interrupted in serious conversation, it was great. Sally’s attention to detail is everything,” another agreed.
“There’s always time for grandma to correct your grammar,” another agreed, while another declared it the “best line” of the episode.
‘So tense! I barely breathe during the whole episode. As usual so funny and dark. Best line… “I shouldn’t have, I shouldn’t, I shouldn’t…” Genius writing genius…
Final Showdown: Viewers tuned in for the penultimate episode of the BBC drama on Sunday night as Tommy Lee Royce revealed his big plans (James Norton as Tommy)
The show’s creator, Sally Wainwright, previously revealed that the show took a deliberately long seven-year hiatus between seasons two and three, as she wanted to wait for Rhys, the actor who plays Ryan, to grow up and reprise his role as a distressed teen.
Viewers tuned in for the penultimate episode of the BBC drama on Sunday night as Tommy Lee Royce revealed his big plans.
The murderous character escaped at the end of the last episode and fans now know that he plans to flee to Marbella, with his son Ryan in tow.
Viewers admitted that they barely got to see the dramatic episode as everything lined up for a dramatic showdown between Tommy and Sargent Catherine as he reveals that he plans to kill her before flying to Spain.
The final episode of Happy Valley will air on BBC One at 9pm on Sunday.
Here We Go: Viewers admitted they could barely watch the dramatic episode as everything lined up for a dramatic showdown between Tommy and Sargent Catherine.