Happy Valley returns

not sure about the sound quality as a whole being bad, as i could easily understand most of the characters....

however, despite being a fan of Sarah Lancashire, she was blooming awful.....diction dreadful....definitely not speaking english.......im afraid it spoiled the program making it really hard work to follow.....

Too like and enjoy a programme like this i have too warm too the character but i,m afraid i cant in this case.Sarah Lancashire represents a not very nice example of a police officer who is permantly miserable and appears to be carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders she also seems to think she is the police dept and the rest are just makeing up the numbers.Her attitude towards her superior officer and other officers is also very poor.I know for some this can make an interesting character but not for me.

peter.

I watched the BBC news programme this morning where they were trying to defend the sound quality and one guy said it was not so much a sound problem but a dialect problem, that is just a excuse, I was born and bred in the Calder Valley and all the filming is done within 10 miles of my house and I could not understand half of it. I think Sarah Lancashire is a fantastic actress but to me it is mainly her dialogue I am struggling with, she seems to be making the 'mumbling' part of her interpretation of the part she is playing. Apart from that moan I think it is a great drama, and edge of the seat stuff! Come to think of it I can hear it a bit better then too

From a sound point of view I think it could apply to lots of programmes we see on TV these days. Its as if the sound engineers give the background sound priority over the speech. We are both a bit on the deaf side so can struggle a bit. As we are so used to Scandi Drama's we just put the sub titles on if we can't hear it properly. Makes watching Shetland easier

David

Like most I feel the back ground sounds blanks out the actors speech.  I'm watching an Amazon prime series 24 at the moment and the musical background at times abliterates the speech , one of the worst , but a great series.

We're glad it's not just us then, we also had problems trying to hear the dialogue in Happy Valley.  Started to think it was our TV but other programmes are ok.  Didn't make much difference turning sound up either but strangely it was clearer in standard definition than HD.  The first series of Happy Valley was perfectly clear, so perhaps it is something to do with a different director who insists they all mumble!

You are not alone, normal speech OK on normal volume setting but by gawd, she does mumble and it was incoherent.

Jamaica Inn was the apogee of sound track inaudibility though.

You are not alone, normal speech OK on normal volume setting but by gawd, she does mumble and it was incoherent.

wife and I have given it up as a bad job!Thoroughly enjoyed the first series and were looking forward to new one!The hint of using sub titles is good and we will try again!

 ..... The hint of using sub titles is good and we will try again!

I often choose subtitles when SWMBO has go to bed so I don't disturb her (bedroom is above living room)