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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 16 Ratings

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The Fall

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RTÉ 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.

Creator: Allan Cubitt

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Recent Episodes

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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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Metascore

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

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

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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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hyunwest123

May 10, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this show is quite dark but, many great lessons about morality and mental health issues
the serial killer man had some serious issues, but the show really plays the devil’s advocate and makes the viewers question, “are psychopaths born or created?” in this case, i honestly felt for the serial killer, though he did many terrible things and i feel so bad for the victims and their families as well. but this series felt very down to earth, with the harsh realities shown, and it seemed to really show the viewers what magnitude of damage child sexual abuse/witnessing mother’s suicide can do. its honestly one of the most
terrible things a child can go through, and i was so glad that the fall wasnt based on some true story. that would have quite literally broken my heart. i wish the serial killer paid the price and had justice served to him instead of him killing himself at the end. but again, the show was very realistic. we often see people who’ve done terrible crimes kill themselves. this show incited a lot of thoughts and reflection in my head.… 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1TeCpPx7c… Expand

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Broyax

Feb 11, 2023

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 ? àLe 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.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

60
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 29, 2016
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  S3:E6. Their Solitary Way
  Air Date: October 28, 2016
- tbd
  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 13, 2014
Season 1

86
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 13, 2013