Finally Spector and Gibson met. The Fall. The interactions with Paul and Bailey are very interesting. The Fall season finale recap: 'What Is in Me Dark Illumine' Gibson and Spector finally go head-to-head in a bloody season finale. Learning about Paul’s past with the help of Alvarez was great and helped to delve deeper into Paul’s mindset. There was a LOT of husky-voiced seriousness going on. But at least it wasn’t saved up for a possible season three. After all the tension, too many questions were left unanswered and those that were seemed contrived to leave the viewer hanging – and the possibility of another series, Thu 18 Dec 2014 22.30 GMT • I found myself wondering: do you think they celebrated the end of the series with a massive bag of throat drops? By Amy Wilkinson. That said, I’m not entirely sure the balance was quite right here. It’s a bit: so what? Episodes Series 1 (2013) Gillian Anderson stars in the first series of The Fall, alongside Jamie Dornan, Bronagh Waugh, Niamh McGrady, John Lynch, Archie Panjabi, Stuart Graham, Ian McElhinney, Ben Peel, Frank McCusker, Michael McElhatton, and Laura Donnelly.It started broadcast in Ireland (RTÉ) on 12 May 2013, followed by the UK broadcast (BBC) on 13 May. • Thanks to everyone who spotted that it was Spector’s car rather than Rose’s car that the police had found last week. But amid all the ludicrous plotting, there was the scene that The Fall had been working towards for the previous 10 hours. Yes, she got the confession from Spector and landed some punches, but for large portions of their conversation it felt as though he had the upper hand despite sitting on the wrong side of the table. I actually groaned as I saw him driving into the forest, and again when the many police teams were split up to deal with various issues. Editor’s Rating 4 stars * * * * « Previous Next. And while I listened very hard for an answer, there wasn’t one. The Fall. Apologies. Ditto, everything with Eastwood. That seems pretty cynical storylining to me, but also undermines the idea that writer/director Alan Cubitt has taken great care to ensure the female victims in his story are not reduced to unnamed, disposable bodies. Me, you the people who like to read and watch programmes about people like you?” and “I don’t hate women, I hate everyone and everything,” and “He might fascinate you – I despise him with every fibre of my being.”. Truly this storyline has been the thing that has most irritated me about this second series of The Fall: it’s walked a very fine line in terms of consent and sex, and has then explained it all away through Katie’s teenage infatuation both with Paul and the idea of him being a murderer. Their Solitary Way. (Or indeed, a great deal longer – despite Anderson saying she hopes there will be a third season, there’s been no announcement about a recommission.). I understand the intent: that Spector would offer his explanation of why he killed – “the thoughts and feelings I experience are far beyond anything you can imagine … I live at a level of intensity you will never know” – and then Gibson would burst the bubble of his own self-importance. Although you could of course argue that ​it is to Cubitt’s credit that he didn’t serve that all up on a plate to us. The Fall Review. This week, he happened to bump into a journalist with an excellent source who could provide Spector’s location not once, but twice. But elsewhere Sally-Ann’s horror at finding out Paul was a killer, and miscarrying as she was interviewed, was left largely unexplored; her character basically summed up by Stella as “stupid and incurious, but innocent”, which doubtless says something about Cubitt’s view of her too. • And I was worried the corruption storyline was going to come back in the finale! He and Jim Burns made a very odd pair of non-characters. There was nothing in this finale that was about Rose: she existed only to allow us to find out more about Gibson and Spector (her guilt, his desire to reassure his daughter); even Rose’s discovery (and possible recovery) were immediately upstaged by Spector’s shooting. It has never rung true; it always seemed closer to a grubby male fantasy than any kind of reality. The Fall recap: season two, episode six – an infuriating cop-out of an ending After all the tension, too many questions were left unanswered and those that … The dynamic of the interview was quite interesting in fact: Stella asking questions in the manner of a counsellor, Paul answering them completely fully and without apology. In fact the whole finale largely sidelined women. If you absolutely cannot wait for The Fall Season 3 to hit Netflix on Oct. 29, you're not alone. Obviously, it seemed extremely unlikely that Spector, on being arrested for more murders, would offer a full confession and explanation, save for Rose, just as the time was beginning to get tight. Yes, of course, there’s Gibson at the fore, and Ferrington taking Jimmy out in the final moments. Come on! It’s been fun watching with you! Season 3 of The Fall is back, which means we finally get to find out what happens to Paul Spector, Stella Gibson, and everyone we love in Belfast. I’m not sure I find it quite as amazing as I am presumably meant to that Gibson could hire him for his brains, but also sleep with him. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Last week he was just having a butty in his van as Spector was carrying out a well-planned getaway, which was unlikely but not impossible. The Fall Season Finale Recap: A Reckoning. • It’s been a strange old ride, this second series of The Fall – so I’d like to particularly thank you all for staying with the blog. It is, admittedly, less unsatisfactory than a character you’ve only met once suddenly arriving back in the middle of the storyline to provide the final twist, but Jimmy was still pretty peripheral to the whole storyline. And so we’re left with three characters clinging on to life: Rose Stagg, Paul Spector and Tom Anderson, while Katie’s fate is undecided. By Angelica Jade Bastién. The finale didn’t change that. Instead it appears to have just completely disappeared. • I noticed a couple of episodes back that the policemen all referred to Katie as “the Bernadetto girl.” They were at it more than usual in this episode. Really odd. But I wonder if Cubitt was perhaps more interested in allowing Spector to explain himself – “It is utterly compelling and compulsive, nothing can bring you back from the edge” – than in allowing Gibson to challenge his beliefs. What could you possibly gain from corrupting her?” asked Gibson. Spector, Gibson and Anderson were all prone to it. Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 21.29 GMT, The finale in so many ways summed up season two of The Fall: moments of promise buried in a massive heap of storylines either too contrived to be believable, or introduced only to be discarded later. With Katie, meanwhile, Cubitt had painted himself into such a mad corner, that the only way out was for her to stay loyal to Spector, reveal nothing of herself, and act in a manner totally unlikely for a teenager. See: “Who were you talking to? • Shall we talk about Tom Anderson? My presumption here is that he will be coming back in season three, if the show gets one and his shoulder injury heals, hence his arrival late in this run. It’s so infuriating for the viewer: if you’ve invested six-plus hours in watching a drama, the very least it can do is not leave you hanging for a year. I was hoping it would be more evenly matched, or that we might see some more reaction from Spector, facial movements aside, to those inconsistencies in his moral framework that viewers have also been questioning. Gail McGill got to paint her nails and wear her hair down – “It’s pathetic Stella, you can do better than that” was about right – and Liz remained a character who seemed to exist entirely for two men to fight over. The 5th episode of the Fall’s 3rd season was definitely the best thus far. The Fall season 2, episode 1 recap: The game of cat-and-mouse returns Ross McG Thursday 13 Nov 2014 10:00 pm Share this article via facebook … © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Which leaves us just with Jimmy, and his bizarre ability to be exactly where Spector is, at exactly the right moment. • There were a couple of times Cubitt justified his drama in this finale. • I’m not sure I bought the idea that small children and “projects” previously stopped Spector offending. Episode 1 1 / 6 Paul Spector is rushed to Belfast General Hospital where staff fight to keep him alive. “It’s an addiction like any other.”. Rose’s torture and horror were used here purely as a plot device to allow that final cliffhanger – to give Spector his last powerplay and allow Jimmy to find him in the woods – which seems just as gratuitous to me. Season 3 Episode 6. “She’s just 16, a child surely. And while season two has largely failed to repeat the successes of The Fall’s first, much-acclaimed run, it very much replicated the disappointment of the first series’s finale – refusing to come to satisfactory conclusions in its desperation to leave the door open for a return to screen. 2 / 6 Gibson and Burns are hauled over the coals by the police ombudsman.