History YMMV / HappyValley

* NightmareFuel: The scenes where Catherine hallucinates the body of her daughter after they were DrivenToSuicide are very disturbing.

* NightmareFuel: The scenes where Catherine hallucinates the body of her daughter after they were DrivenToSuicide are very disturbing.

* JerkassWoobie: Kevin helps engineer the kidnapping of his boss's daughter, but did it to better provide for his children and put them through education.

** When you find out that Sgt. Cawood thinks of the Halifax Mafia as the local version of ''TheSopranos'', Ashley's wife's "Carmella Soprano"-wannabe look from Series 1 comes into sharper focus.

** When you find out that Sgt. Cawood thinks of the Halifax Mafia as the local version of TheSopranos, Ashley's wife's "Carmella Soprano"-wannabe look from Series 1 comes into sharper focus.

* NightmareFuel: The scenes where Catherine hallucinates the body of her daughter after they were DrivenToSuicide are very disturbing.
* OneMarioLimit: You are completely forgiven if you immediately assumed that Frances Drummond was an alias.

* NightmareFuel: The scenes where Catherine hallucinates the body of her daughter after they were DrivenToSuicide are very disturbing.

* When you find out that Sgt. Cawood thinks of the Halifax Mafia as the local version of TheSopranos, Ashley's wife's "Carmella Soprano"-wannabe look from Series 1 comes into sharper focus.

* HilariousInHindsight: In an episode of the first season, Tommy is disguised as a nerd and holding a copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. The following year, James Norton would play Andrei Bolkonsky in a major BBC adaptation of the novel.

* HilariousInHindsight: In an episode of the first season, Tommy is disguised as a nerd and holding a copy of ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. The following year, James Norton would play Nikolai Rostov in a major BBC adaptation of the novel.

* CompleteMonster: Tommy Lee Royce is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] convicted of dealing drugs, and who is also suspected of raping the protagonist Catherine's daughter. After kidnapping Nevison's daughter Ann (on Ashley's orders) and imprisoning her in a cellar, Royce rapes her ([[EvenEvilHasStandards something that disgusts his partner-in-crime, Lewis]]): when Lewis stops him from attempting to rape Ann again, he savagely beats him (and spits in Ann's face) - and implies that, after he's finished with Ann, he'll kill her anyway. When his boss, Ashley, tells him to dispose of Ann, Royce instead takes her prisoner in his mother's home - where he continues to torment her. When Catherine finds Ann in the cellar, Royce attacks his mother - before then subjecting Catherine to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. He eventually kills both Lewis and a man with whom he is temporarily a flatmate - so as to stop them from telling anyone about the kidnapping. He also discovers he has a son (through his raping Catherine's daughter) and tries to get to know him better, but after his son brings a friend with him, [[WouldHurtAChild Royce has no qualms about killing him because he "sold him up the river"]]. A volatile sexual sadist with no redeeming qualities of any kind, Royce really stands out in an already very dark series.

CompleteMonster: Tommy Lee Royce is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] convicted of dealing drugs, and who is also suspected of raping the protagonist Catherine's daughter. After kidnapping Nevison's daughter Ann (on Ashley's orders) and imprisoning her in a cellar, Royce rapes her ([[EvenEvilHasStandards something that disgusts his partner-in-crime, Lewis]]): when Lewis stops him from attempting to rape Ann again, he savagely beats him (and spits in Ann's face) - and implies that, after he's finished with Ann, he'll kill her anyway. When his boss, Ashley, tells him to dispose of Ann, Royce instead takes her prisoner in his mother's home - where he continues to torment her. When Catherine finds Ann in the cellar, Royce attacks his mother - before then subjecting Catherine to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. He eventually kills both Lewis and a man with whom he is temporarily a flatmate - so as to stop them from telling anyone about the kidnapping. He also discovers he has a son (through his raping Catherine's daughter) and tries to get to know him better, but after his son brings a friend with him, [[WouldHurtAChild Royce has no qualms about killing him because he "sold him up the river"]]. A volatile sexual sadist with no redeeming qualities of any kind, Royce really stands out in an already very dark series.

CompleteMonster: Tommy Lee Royce is a sociopath convicted of dealing drugs, and who is also suspected of raping the protagonist Catherine's daughter. After kidnapping Nevison's daughter Ann (on Ashley's orders) and imprisoning her in a cellar, Royce rapes her (something that disgusts his partner-in-crime, Lewis): when Lewis stops him from attempting to rape Ann again, he savagely beats him (and spits in Ann's face) - and implies that, after he's finished with Ann, he'll kill her anyway. When his boss, Ashley, tells him to dispose of Ann, Royce instead takes her prisoner in his mother's home - where he continues to torment her. When Catherine finds Ann in the cellar, Royce attacks his mother - before then subjecting Catherine to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. He eventually kills both Lewis and a man with whom he is temporarily a flatmate - so as to stop them from telling anyone about the kidnapping. He also discovers he has a son (through his raping Catherine's daughter) and tries to get to know him better, but after his son brings a friend with him, he has no qualms about killing him because he "sold him up the river". A volatile sexual sadist with no redeeming qualities of any kind, Royce really stands out in an already very dark series.