In Tuesday's episode, character Catherine Cawood was savagely beaten As the show ended, she collapsed in the road with face covered in blood It followed the murder of a policewoman last week on lonely country road Average of 5.8million viewers tuned in to Happy Valley's first instalments
By Alasdair Glennie Tv Correspondent
Published: 15:30 EST, 21 May 2014 | Updated: 02:45 EST, 22 May 2014
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It is called Happy Valley, but the landscape of the BBCs new crime drama is unrelentingly bleak.
The programme has drawn criticism for showing gratuitous violence in a string of graphic scenes.
In Tuesdays episode, the lead character - police sergeant Catherine Cawood, played by Sarah Lancashire - was savagely beaten in a basement.
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