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- RTÉ One
- Sep 25, 2016
- RTÉ One
- Sep 25, 2016
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
- RTÉ One
- Sep 25, 2016
- RTÉ One
- Sep 25, 2016
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
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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1 Review
75% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
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.
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Based on 37 User Ratings
5.8
57% Positive
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User Score
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Based on 37 User Ratings
5.8
57% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
14% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
30% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
I enjoyed this third season of The Fall, but understand why many found it disappointing. It did not live up to its own standards, and feels like the producers wanted to wrap things up but didn't know how to do so eloquently for one reason or another.
The writing and performances are very good, but several interesting characters seem to have been lost and forgotten by the show. However, the season still ends with a bang and, despite its shortcomings, if you enjoy slow paced psychological content and watching brilliant people operate in subtle ways this third season should, at the very least, pique your interest.
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SEASON 3
The first 30 minutes of the first episode are intense and engaging, then the pace slows dramatically. Not recommended for those looking for action and speed, the show is dialogue-heavy with action-light episodes very psychological with few high tension scenes. Unexpected ending. "That’s Disney, this is the real story."
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SEASON 3
The show seems to be fixating on the energy and effort that goes into saving a life, just as, in seasons past, it’s shown Paul taking them in similar close-up. But plot-wise, it’s a slog.
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.
'The Fall' is a show that only survives for its charismatic leading actors because the story is not original nor smart. It also feels like it tries to be too clever for its own good and instead of ending with a bang, it only ends up being mediocre.
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SEASON 3
The opposite of season 1. Kind of like 'Lost' where you get the idea nothing had been thought through and no seeming logic to how it ends. Suffice it ends with you thinking 'eh what was the point of that?'
One dramatic scene that actually seemed to be shock value and the rest of the series nothing happens apart from some pointless waffle.
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SEASON 3
Very disappointing. Season 3 is as bad (2/10) as Season 1 was riveting (8/10). What a waste of time on tedious police work, red tape and politics (yes the public wants blood and the higher echelons of management are cowards standing in the way of the incorruptible, infallible, strong-willed top investigator)!
Plus Gillian Anderson is always, always, playing the same character be it in the Xfiles, Hannibal or that show.Enough already!
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