This is likely because this is The Fall, and everyone is stupid and nobody learns anything. And there was Krister Henriksson, playing Mads Mikkelsen, playing Hannibal. This used to be a taut game of cat and mouse … Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. It didn’t, but that didn’t stop the show from pulling out a Greatest Hits of Inexplicable Dramatic Cliches in its bid to look as if it knew what it was doing. Finally exposed as a murderer, Spector suddenly gained the superpower of route-one exposition, eroding his mystique with one tedious monologue about his motivations after another. Even by most recent standards, The Fall was dire this year. Did the BBC think Jamie Dornan purring at nurses would make up for a total absence of plot? Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. You can understand its embarrassment. Forgot your password? With Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch, Aisling Franciosi. The world is overrun with them; their births barely acknowledged, their deaths unmourned. Watching The Fall from start to finish has been like watching a bouncy castle deflate. Every episode, as Spector’s murders grew more brutal and the circle closed in around him, was even more unbearably tense than the last. A series gets an Average Tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. It was the very last scene of the first series. But it did not. View All The Fall News . Let’s not discount the possibility of a new series where Dornan, plastic bag still over his head, sits up in the police morgue and starts strangling janitors like billy-o. When that happens, it’s hard not to take it personally. For The Fall to get off TV's critical list, Paul Spector must die. There was amnesia. Everyone in the cast is better than what this show became, and at least now it’s over they might actually find work worthy of their talents. Created by Allan Cubitt. A violent finale packed all the show's punches into one episode, but "The Fall" couldn't justify a circular season that felt sickly redundant. Entire episodes have passed where literally nothing at all happened. Now, it’s proof that everyone is stupid and nobody learns anything. There was a confusingly understaffed psychiatric care unit. And then he was shot dead. This year’s series has been the natural conclusion of the race to the bottom. Ben Travers Nov 2, 2016 9:00 am Except that didn’t happen. And then he came back to life, because everyone is stupid and nobody learns anything. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Once, The Fall was a sexy, unbearably tense thriller. Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson leads a case to catch a serial killer following an unsolved murder in Belfast. It really stings when good TV goes bad Definitive Gillian Anderson Roles As Animated GIFs. A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serial killer in this procedural out of Belfast. It was a proper, grownup, sexy, scary thriller. Gibson was finally supposed to come face-to-face with Spector, allowing us to see all the violence and chemistry that had long been promised. I think I remember. It was a horror story, about a normal family man with a monstrous secret, tracked by a mysterious police officer who couldn’t explain her attraction to the case. But a good TV show that turns bad is a different matter. Now, it’s proof that everyone is stupid and nobody learns anything. Sign up here. It felt like a tight, compact one-series show had been blasted wide open so that BBC Two could brag about having Gillian Anderson on its books for the longterm. Somewhere along the line The Fall traded intrigue for atmosphere, hoping that a string of genuinely tedious scenes where Jamie Dornan purrs at nurses would make up for a total absence of plot. Once, The Fall was a sexy, unbearably tense thriller. It really stings when good TV goes bad, Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 21.00 GMT. A series gets an Average Tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! In its first series, The Fall was a taut game of cat and mouse. About Tomatometer. Copyright © Fandango. In its first series, The Fall was a taut game of cat and mouse. I’m trying not to take The Fall personally. That’s if it is actually over. I’m annoyed that it ever reeled me in to begin with. Now that it’s done, and Paul Spector is dead and Stella Gibson is back enigmatically muttering like a woman who lost her keys, it’s hard to fathom why anyone was ever excited about this dreary puddle of a show in the first place. It was a painful anti-climax that stank of commercial forces. Like anyone else who watched it, I can pinpoint the exact moment The Fall fell apart. The Fall review: basically 24 Hours in A&E, more artfully shot The other side Still, moody, still sexy, still flawed: The Fall returns for series three Published: 29 Sep 2016