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Last Updated on 08:30 PM by Lilliana Tseka
“The Fall” is a British Drama TV series that tells the story of two hunters, a female police officer and a male serial killer. The series is of great taste, it has raw moments of violence and torture but not as gore as Dexter , complex female lead, specific and loaded setting, a slow pace that prioritizes psychology and character over crime solving. I must say that you can distinguish a lot of “The Killing” in the series but it’s quite well written and with sucha finesse that in the end it doesn’t really bother you.
Gillian Anderson plays the part of Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (in my opinion she gets more and more attractive with every year), with the Metropolitan police in London who is brought over to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to review a high-profile murder case that the Belfast police have been unable to solve. Anderson’s performance is what makes this show worth watching. She’s so restrained, self-possessed and intimidating, so sexy in a cold stone way that she can say things like, “Man fucks woman. Man subject. Woman object. That’s fine for you. Woman fucks man. Woman subject. Man object. That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?” and you hear the point, not the lecture.
In “The Fall” we already know the killer that is Paul Spector (Jaime Dornan, ex-model and lead actor of 50 Shades of Grey), charming, he is married, a father of two and quite a good one and he has a job, he is a grievance counselor. In most TV series or movies the serial killer has no social life, lives somewhere remotely and he is filthy (you can almost actually smell him) someone that you would never notice. In The Fall you can easily fall in love with the character and when you have that break from his day life to his other secret life and start realizing he is a brutal serial killer that enjoys strangling slowly women to death, you kind of ask yourself why some women are attracted to these people in real life. The fact is that when see the killer in his everyday life you humanize him, you can see an aspect of him that you never think on other thrillers when you just watch the simple, shocking raw violence. It really puts you in an awkward position. “The Fall” does not traffic in horror movie thrills, but a consistent eeriness and unease.
You can say in many ways that this is a cliché show but people it’s a nice one! Of course it’s not a masterpiece but you will eat your pop corn in no time because it takes all these turns and throws them into a creepy, classy, artful series that is so totally of the now. Let’s hope that the 2nd season (that finishes in one episode next week) will give as even better chills that the 1st one. I can’t wait. As always, Buona Visione!
