‘Happy Valley’ Is a Huge, Trending TV Hit That You Can’t Watch

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‘Happy Valley’ Is a Huge, Trending TV Hit That You Can’t Watch
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There’s ** doubt that the modern British crime drama is booming, but we didn’t see this one coming at all: Happy Valley, the grim, six-episode kidnap thriller whose finale was broadcast Tuesday night in the U.K., has been so instantly and wildly popular that the hashtag #HappyValley (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HappyValley?src=tren) was the **. 1 global trending topic on Twitter.

But unless you’re reading this from the U.K., can’t watch it. Which — in this age of everything-on-demand, is … kind of maddening. And giving us entitlement feelings.

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Anyway, the show stars Sarah Lancashire as Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood, a divorced, 47-year-old policewoman who lives with her recovering-addict sister but is estranged from much of her family. By all accounts, it’s a harrowing look at violence, murder and rape that stem from the area’s widespread drug problem. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/happy-valley-is-a-huge-trending-tv-hit-that-you-cant-watch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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