The Fall

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Season 3
Season #: 3, 2, 1
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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
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  1. jeremyp
    Nov 5, 2016
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand 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.… Expand
  2. Doodle02
    Feb 18, 2017
    7
    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,    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.    … Expand
  3. podaddy
    Dec 12, 2016
    0
    Loved the first two seasons, but could not make it thru three and a half episodes in Season three. Total snoozefest. Paul has amnesia, that seems to be the entire plot. Nothing compelling whatsoever. Hard to believe they didn't just throw in the towel when filming Season Three and say 'this is awful, what are we doing this for" Really can't understand how anyone who enjoyed the first twoLoved the first two seasons, but could not make it thru three and a half episodes in Season three. Total snoozefest. Paul has amnesia, that seems to be the entire plot. Nothing compelling whatsoever. Hard to believe they didn't just throw in the towel when filming Season Three and say 'this is awful, what are we doing this for" Really can't understand how anyone who enjoyed the first two seasons as much as I did could offer a positive review of this train wreck.… Expand
  4. Rex_richards
    Nov 12, 2016
    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.
  5. drlowdon
    Oct 29, 2016
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand 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.… Expand
  6. JorgeLestre
    Jan 27, 2017
    6
    '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.
  7. 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 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    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!    … Expand
  8. steddye
    Dec 13, 2016
    7
    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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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
  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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