I agree this is a gyrrl-power series where not a single man is portrayed in a positive light. I also agree it is wildly implausible. People don't have this stuff happen and if they did they would not behave this way. Some shows are drama porn, implausible situations strung together, trying to hold our interest. This is more like feelings porn interspersed with talking porn. Blah blah blah; ohh ohh ohh; blah blah blah. Some gal-child writer at the Atlantic Monthly raved about this show so I just binged-watched the second and third seasons. It's not bad, but it is nothing to rave about. It shows how far The Atlantic has fallen. To confirm how dreary and slow this whole mess is, I re-watched an episode of NYPD Blue (S08E17). Whew, like cleaning the pallet with club soda after bad frommage. OK, this Happy Valley episode is over and the grand finale episode just started. I will watch it, not so much to see what happens, but to be glad that neither I, nor my friends, nor my enemies, nor any person I have ever met, behaves like these characters. NYPD Blue S0818 await, the episode where they write Diane out of the show, yippee! PS: the final Happy Valley episode looks to be more ridiculous and absurd than I feared.