The Fall - new series on BBC2

[mwgdrwg]

I'm sick of Gillian Anderson whispering her way through every episode and just 'posing and looking into space' in soft focus. Half the time she's acting as if she's on the verge of an orgasm. She's supposed to be a copper fgs.
Give me Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley any day.

I think this serious is just long drawn out drivel. but I'm still watching

I could watch Gillian Anderson doing that all day

 

[Pickman's model]

I could watch Gillian Anderson doing that all day

 

[Maharani]

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unlikely as she has been neither kidnapped nor taken hostage.

Who says she won't be?

 

[Pickman's model]

Who says she won't be?

being as she has already fallen for him your point is moot. she's more likely to get nicked than kidnapped.

 

[Pickman's model]

that note in full

Spoiler

 

[Maharani]

being as she has already fallen for him your point is moot. she's more likely to get nicked than kidnapped.

Do we know that she has?

 

[Pickman's model]

Do we know that she has?

if she hasn't she's doing a damn good impression of it.

 

[1%er]

Fucking watching paint dry is more entertaining

Is that a comment about Paranoid or the fall? I'm only interested as I will not bother looking for Paranoid if it is crap

 

[Pickman's model]

Is that a comment about Paranoid or the fall? I'm only interested as I will not bother looking for Paranoid if it is crap

The fall. I expected more from gillian anderson.

 

[1%er]

Just watched the penultimate episode, but will not give anything away.

The final episode should be available on Friday night (not sure when it is on in the UK) but if I remember I'll post a link before I go out.

 

[gosub]

Just watched the penultimate episode, but will not give anything away.

The final episode should be available on Friday night (not sure when it is on in the UK) but if I remember I'll post a link before I go out.

being shown 9-10 on BBC2 Friday as well. Probably similbroadcast with RTE

 

[1%er]

being shown 9-10 on BBC2 Friday as well. Probably similbroadcast with RTE

Thanks for that, I don't need to remember now

 

[Shirl]

Is that a comment about Paranoid or the fall? I'm only interested as I will not bother looking for Paranoid if it is crap

Paranoid is worth watching

 

[Shirl]

I wasn't well last evening so needed to go to bed after The Fall but just as I was getting into bed wolfie said that Paranoid was on ITV+1 all these weeks and I could have watched both on the same night

 

[Pickman's model]

That was shit

 

[Shirl]

That was shit

It could have been two episodes shorter without all the lingering soft focus shots of Anderson's face

 

[Pickman's model]

It could have been two episodes shorter without all the lingering soft focus shots of Anderson's face

Could have been a load of episodes shorter if they'd done the decent thing and not commissioned it

 

[Shirl]

And another thing, absolutely no regard for police procedure

 

[Wilf]

And another thing, absolutely no regard for police procedure

There was certainly a lot of 'this is Paul Spector, who has brutally murdered several women, though he says he can't remember. I'd say it's probably okay for him to be left with a single female nurse/walk round the hospital with just the same nurse/go in the MRI room on his own/have a one to one with his shrink/take his meds unsupervised/walk out of the police interview room without cuffs'. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe it's a post-Brexit thing, no need for all that namby pamby health and safety.

 

[Wilf]

Could have been a load of episodes shorter if they'd done the decent thing and not commissioned it

NO! I've just had a throat op and there could have been permanent damage to my voice. I was hoping for a prosperous future doing Gillian Anderson voiceovers. I've already had a call back from Frank's Factory Flooring.

 

[felixthecat]

Disappointing

 

[The Fornicator]

Intense. Not predictable. Thought provoking. Well made.

Also, not often you see a study in the very complicated world of female sexuality.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

It was overlong, desperately annoying, bordered on offensive and dreadfully hammy, but it did keep me interested until the end.

It's no Happy Valley, it's no Line of Duty, but it has done its time now and long may it stay dead.

The final Spector/Gibson showdown was over the top, and really indulged in everything the show has been heavily criticised for.

That this character was given so much space to make those last moves was just daft.

 

[trabuquera]

It was clunky droning pretentious witless bobbins is what it was. (And I found s1 intriguing with reservations, and was proper gripped by most of s2 until it got stupid at the end.) s3 a waste of space.

 

[Shirl]

Intense. Not predictable. Thought provoking. Well made.

Also, not often you see a study in the very complicated world of female sexuality.

I must have missed that episode

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Definitely a series too far.

Episode 1 was essentially Holby City. Episode 2-4 nothing much happened. Final two episodes were just ridiculous (do they have any police,guards, basic security in Belfast given he was the biggest serial killer in their history?)

What annoys the most was the suggestion that this was thought provoking and weighty stuff and that there was a MESSAGE. The only thing I learned was not to waste 6 hours of my life on this sort of windy guff ever again

 

[Reno]

Judging from how this went down, I'm glad I threw in the towel after season 2.

 

[Wilf]

Definitely a series too far.

Episode 1 was essentially Holby City. Episode 2-4 nothing much happened. Final two episodes were just ridiculous (do they have any police,guards, basic security in Belfast given he was the biggest serial killer in their history?)

What annoys the most was the suggestion that this was thought provoking and weighty stuff and that there was a MESSAGE. The only thing I learned was not to waste 6 hours of my life on this sort of windy guff ever again

I should have been a good audience member for this, I normally love 'slow and atmospheric'. Trouble is, slow + shit = long time viewing shit.

 

[Wilf]

... and another thing (rant).... plotlines in crime TV/film are often a bit neat and mechanistic. Even if the person you are briefly lead to believe was the killer turns out not to be, their situation is normally 'resolved', for example they become the next victim or a source of regret for the detective who pursued them. In this one the nurse, who was his 'victim type', was prominent in the first few episodes. Looked like she would be a further victim, or at least feature in some further development of the story. On the face of it, I quite like them not doing that and letting her just fade out of the series. But in the context of a story that just ran down to an unsatisfactory conclusion, it merely added to the pointlessness of the whole thing.

 

[The Fornicator]

Definitely a series too far.

Episode 1 was essentially Holby City. Episode 2-4 nothing much happened. Final two episodes were just ridiculous (do they have any police,guards, basic security in Belfast given he was the biggest serial killer in their history?)

What annoys the most was the suggestion that this was thought provoking and weighty stuff and that there was a MESSAGE. The only thing I learned was not to waste 6 hours of my life on this sort of windy guff ever again

I wonder if the switch in focus and even genre was to ambitious, even for BBC2. Spector wasn't the point of S3 - his developmental arc barely moved from being shot to suicide, via surgery and Stella handing him his arse at their final meting.

But we learned an awful lot more about Stella, Rose Stagg and the Benedetto girl - perhaps different ages of femininity, and how their lives .. well never mind, people can work it out if they want. I guess we were kind of left with poor Olivia and history repeating.