The Fall

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Season 2
Season #: 3, 2, 1
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7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 65 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 65
  3. Negative: 10 out of 65
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  1. muldjord
    Aug 27, 2015
    5
    Review of season 2. This show is great - in small glimpses. It seems to rely too much on these extremely slow moving scenes where the camera is basically just doing close up shots and nothing is going on for what feels like several minutes (I actually think it is). It's one of those shows you can watch while doing the dishes and you wouldn't miss anything of interest. Several times youReview of season 2. This show is great - in small glimpses. It seems to rely too much on these extremely slow moving scenes where the camera is basically just doing close up shots and nothing is going on for what feels like several minutes (I actually think it is). It's one of those shows you can watch while doing the dishes and you wouldn't miss anything of interest. Several times you have dialog scenes with dialog that is basically just describing a scene we saw playing out earlier on. There's a lot of really silly decision making going on at all times. Clearly designed to stretch the show. Basically like this: Something is almost about to happen that would create a breakthrough, but then something intervenes, seemingly out of thin air, and the thing doesn't happen after all and you have to wait to a later episode for them to get the chance again. Just utterly frustrating to watch!

    As with season 1; there's great acting all around. It's the script and the pacing that's lacking.    … Expand
  2. drlowdon
    Jan 16, 2015
    9
    The Fall's second season continues where the first left off with detective Gibson (Gillian Anderson) still on the hunt for serial killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dorman). Avoiding all the usual clichés associated with the genre it makes for a fascinating and tense watch throughout and I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
  3. thehawk
    Apr 2, 2015
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mostly boring. The problem is that the story relies too much on the characters, yet they aren't interesting people. There is a subplot that could have been very interesting had it been fleshed out but it wasn't.
    Another problem was that the perpetrator would have most likely been caught by current simple technology in Series 1. He should have definitely been caught in Series 2 Episode 2,.    … Expand
  4. Superbuddha
    Jun 2, 2015
    2
    Season 1 of The Fall was interesting, well acted, reasonably well written and making the most of the show location, Belfast NI.
    Second season is a big let down, the characters turn into stereotypes and the pacing of the whole thing slows to a crawl. Really, you could edit down the 6 hours of season 2 into a 120 minute film and not miss much.
  5. steddye
    Dec 13, 2014
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really enjoyed the first season and the the first three episodes of season 2, in the fourth, at the hospital, why the police don't get him instead of hiding ?!?! C'mon it's a serial killer and you know he's coming and you do nothing, Here the show looses all the credibility that however was already creaking.

    The script-writers could do better.    … Expand
  6. thecriclover99
    May 27, 2015
    10
    This show is unapologetically feminist, but it still manages to be compelling and draw in the viewer. The final episode was electrifying, and the show poses a lot of questions about morality, darkness and addiction.
  7. Prettycurious
    Feb 1, 2015
    2
    Life is too short to spend 60 minutes watching this very slow moving drama. The acting was good, and some parts were enjoyable, but by the time they revealed the killer in the 1st episode, which I had already made a guess at, since it was so obvious, I no longer cared who it was. I was hoping for a twist or two, to make me think "Oh, the killer could also be . . . " but nope. There is is.Life is too short to spend 60 minutes watching this very slow moving drama. The acting was good, and some parts were enjoyable, but by the time they revealed the killer in the 1st episode, which I had already made a guess at, since it was so obvious, I no longer cared who it was. I was hoping for a twist or two, to make me think "Oh, the killer could also be . . . " but nope. There is is. Killer revealed in 60 minutes. a looooooooooooooong 60 minutes. This one had me wishing for comercials. Anything to break up the monotony. No such luck. The monotony was only broken by the episode ending. Ugh!… Expand
  8. Amovielover
    Jul 3, 2018
    2
    After watching Season 1, the second season is a disappointment. There were many wildly unrealistic events, and the pace slowed to a crawl.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
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  1. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Jan 20, 2015
    83
    Frankly put, [Jamie Dornan's Spector is] boring, and not in the fascinating way the show itself can be in its aforementioned moments.... Luckily, Anderson is there to save him, both as an ideal to strive for--as fans will see in the season's 90-minute finale--and a redeeming grace for the show.
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  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
    Jan 15, 2015
    90
    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.
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  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Melissa Maerz
    Jan 14, 2015
    100
    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.
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