Thursday, 25 February 2016

Happy Valley Season 2 (2016 Sally Wainwright scr & creator)

She also directed the first episode. Really well written episodes just fly by, use dramatic irony artfully, successfully mixes thriller with laughs, emotional drama. Is also far more cinematic than many films. Sarah Lancashire is terrific e.g. scenes with psychoanalyst. We had already figured out how great James Norton was last time. Plus: Siobhan Finneran, Charlie Murphy (also in Philomena and 71), Amelia Bullmore, Downton's Kevin Doyle.

Love also the music by Ben Foster; that bending bass note gets me every time. Ivan Strasburg also shot Treme, Generation Kill and The Corner.

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