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The Fall

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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Ratings

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RTE One | BBC Two | Netflix | Release Date: May 13, 2013

Summary: Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), a married man with two kids, the killer, plans his next kill as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) is brought in from London to help solve the Belfast murder.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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S3:E6. Their Solitary Way
Air Date: October 28, 2016
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S3:E5. Wounds of Deadly Hate
Air Date: October 23, 2016
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S3:E4. The Hell Within Him
Air Date: October 16, 2016

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79

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Critic Reviews

100

Entertainment Weekly

Melissa Maerz

Jan 14, 2015

Season 2 Review: I'd say that The Fall is a deeply moral crime thriller, but that description is too boring for a drama that's electric with suspense and erotic tension and pulpy cliff-hangers. Anderson's performance is riveting. Read full review

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People Weekly

Tom Gliatto

Jun 14, 2013

Season 1 Review: [A] cool yet intensely emotional British crime series. [24 Jun 2013, p.40]

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Salon

Willa Paskin

Jan 15, 2015

Season 2 Review: The stately new season unfolds as though it has never heard the phrase “hurry up,” closely tracking a serial killer who is no longer killing, a police department that makes no mistakes, and a narrative that contains no red herrings. Read full review

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Salon

Willa Paskin

Jun 5, 2013

Season 1 Review: Some of these moments are memorable and stark. More are soporific. Both lend themselves to The Fall’s tone: these days, slow is what passes for serious. Anderson’s performance is what makes The Fall worth watching. Read full review

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New York Magazine (Vulture)

Kathryn VanArendonk

Nov 4, 2016

Season 3 Review: When it's firing on all cylinders, though, the third season of The Fall is an unusually meditative, self-possessed piece of television, one that actually earns the "psychological thriller" title that too often gets thrown at anything related to a serial killer. Read full review

70

The New York Times

Neil Genzlinger

Jun 10, 2013

Season 1 Review: It’s a fine show, relying on slow-building tension rather than the gory shock value of series like “The Following,” and the five-episode arc now on Netflix is worth a look if you haven’t had your fill of cat-and-mouse dynamics.... Oddly, the character developed the least may be Ms. Anderson’s. Read full review

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Yahoo TV

Ken Tucker

Oct 31, 2016

Season 3 Review: As good as Anderson is throughout, her Stella suffers from a Season 3 lack of development--we learn nothing about her in this new season that we did not know from the previous two (apart from a couple of small autobiographical details dropped in the final hour). And some characters who had been important to the series--I’m thinking particularly of John Lynch’s cop Burns--recede or fall away in disappointing ways. Read full review

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Movielov43

Jul 26, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing performance by Jamie Dornan. The first episode was a little drawn out the rest of the miniseries made up for it. I really felt the performance. Some viewers might find it disturbing. Being a trained professional in psychology, I felt I was feeling the emotions the hights and fears of the serial killer and Githat… Expand

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Loucetios

Sep 3, 2020

In the opening minutes you're beaten over the head with a combination of terrible acting, some embellished truth feminist rhetoric about the Mosou people, and a contrived bar scene straight out of East Enders with equally terrible dialogue. Somehow people thought the ideas that work forIn the opening minutes you're beaten over the head with a combination of terrible acting, some embellished truth feminist rhetoric about the Mosou people, and a contrived bar scene straight out of East Enders with equally terrible dialogue. Somehow people thought the ideas that work for daytime television soap operas would translate to a crime thiller. The pacing is terribly slow. Gillian Anderson is a smoke show but she can't save this. I struggled to stay awake in the first episode and by the end of the second one I was done. The writers should be lined up, some of the dialogue is utterly stupid that one or two revisions could've saved. The emergency services call was just pathetically bad.
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Seasons & Episodes

79

Series Overview
Season 3

60
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: October 29, 2016
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  S3:E6. Their Solitary Way
  Air Date: October 28, 2016
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  S3:E5. Wounds of Deadly Hate
  Air Date: October 23, 2016
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  S3:E4. The Hell Within Him
  Air Date: October 16, 2016
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  S3:E3. The Gates of Light
  Air Date: October 9, 2016
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  S3:E2. His Troubled Thoughts
  Air Date: October 2, 2016
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  S3:E1. Silence and Suffering
  Air Date: September 25, 2016
Season 2

tbd
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: November 9, 2014
Season 1

81
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 13, 2013