Don't feel sorry for Happy Valley's Tommy Lee Royce

We are too quick to excuse men’s violence against women. But when we forgive men like Tommy, we forget how much pain they’ve causedJames Norton as Tommy Lee Royce. It’s not a surprise that so many viewers found a soft spot for Tommy in his final scenes

It’s a testament to the genius of Sally Wainwright’s writing that many viewers of last night’s last ever episode had the unexpected – and deeply uncomfortable – experience of feeling sorry for. James Norton’s masterful, layered performance only added to the apparent switch in his character’s raison d’etre.

This Tommy had been changed by knowing his son, we were to believe. Given half the chance to be a dad, to know Ryan as he’d grown up, Tommy would have fulfilled his potential as the decent man he ludicrously thought himself to be. It’s a warped vein of thinking Neil evidently fell for, and perhaps part of the reason he was so keen to take Ryan to visit his dad in prison.has always been about bad men, the horrendous damage they do to women and how they far too frequently get away with it.

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