The Fall

:

Season 3
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
Watch Now

Where To Watch

Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Kathryn VanArendonk
    Nov 4, 2016
    70
    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.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Oct 28, 2016
    60
    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.
  3. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Nov 7, 2016
    50
    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.
  5. Yahoo TV
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Oct 31, 2016
    50
    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.

User Reviews

All reviews »
User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 36
  3. Negative: 10 out of 36
  1. OlivierPiel
    Nov 2, 2016
    2
    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 andVery 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!    … Full Review »
  2. jeremyp
    Nov 5, 2016
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. A pointless last season. All the tension is drained out now that Spector is captured, and so the writer toys around with psychobabble to elicit interest in motivation. Boring. So they bring in a sleazy lawyer to get him off, and he promptly allows his client to plead guilty to a crime recently discovered. So then they decide to let him saunter around unshackled. Didn't they see "Silence Of The Lambs?" Without anyone to play with Andersen's character's flat affect gets flatter, and our interest in her diminishes. For a moment there they tease us with his possible escape, now that might have saved it, but no.… Full Review »
  3. drlowdon
    Oct 29, 2016
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. The Fall remains a well written show and the central performances from Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson are still top notch but, with Paul Spector now in police custody, it just doesn’t have the same level of intensity that made seasons one and two such a tense and intriguing watch. The character of Katie, always pretty irritating, is also somehow even more annoying this time around as well. I’m not saying that The Fall isn’t still pretty good but this is perhaps a show that didn’t really need a third season.… Full Review »
See all user reviews »