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- 2013
- TV-MA
- RTÉ One
- 2013
- TV-MA
- RTÉ One
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.
Created By: Allan Cubitt
- 2013
- TV-MA
- RTÉ One
- 2013
- TV-MA
- RTÉ One
The Fall
Season 1 Premiere: May 12, 2013
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7.2
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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.
Created By: Allan Cubitt
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
79
75% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 263 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
192 Ratings
192 Ratings
10% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
17% Negative
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 263 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
192 Ratings
192 Ratings
10% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
17% Negative
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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The Fall is a top-flight mystery that taps into political tensions in Northern Ireland and the troubling undercurrent of violence against women.
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.
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.
Mr. Cubitt has set up a parallel between Gibson and Spector and wants to suggest that she, too, isn’t in full control of her sexual impulses. But he hasn’t made the parallel interesting, and it makes Gibson a less believable character, despite Ms. Anderson’s fine performance.
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.
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 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.
****/watch?v=RF1TeCpPx7c
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Le retour de ‘Scully’… comme Commissaire aux trousses d’un tueur en série en Irlande du Nord… plus de **** hommes gris, plus de soucoupes volantes et plus de Mulder pour dérider l’atmosphère… Cela étant, Gillian Anderson est en pleine forme, belle et convaincante.
Et cette série alors ? à part Gillian j’essaie de lui trouver des qualités… la froideur clinique, le réalisme peut-être ? oui, on dirait un reportage à la télé, il manque juste le commentaire. A part ça, de l’émotion, de l’intérêt ? des personnages dont on se souvient ? à part Gillian je veux dire…
Le psychopathe sans doute ? non on s’en branle complètement et c’est le problème rédhibitoire : on s’en branle à un point de tout ce qui peut arriver là dedans, un point… inimaginable ! C’est plat comme un épisode de Navarro ou du Commissaire Moulin. Mais avec Gillian Anderson.
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Production Company:
- Fables
- Artists Studio
- BBC Northern Ireland
- Ingenious
- Canutus Productions
- Redbridge Productions
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
- Northern Ireland Screen
- European Regional Development Fund
- Invest Northern Ireland
Initial Release Date: May 12, 2013
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Crime Thriller Awards, UK
• 3 Nominations
