The Fall

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Watched it last night. Tis good, but disturbing. Gillian Anderson very good. Jamie Dornan scary. Anyone else see it?

Didn't enjoy as much tonight. The parallels shown throughout where far too blunt and unsubtle, everything was too overstated for me, as if the viewer couldn't be trusted to note the details themselves.

It was very disturbing in parts, the bit where he gave his daughter the necklace turned my stomach.

Going to try next weeks though...

Oh dear.

As AnyFucker says too many lingering shots for my liking.

And now, too many shots of children in disturbing scenes and far too many scenes of children in compare/contrast situations (I'm sure there is technical term for this) eg washing the victims hair/washing daughter's hair, father saying my baby and woman saying "my baby" at neonatal unit, rape of victim/teenage girl being hurt. Also daughter seeing daddy hurting girl and dad being shot in front of his boy.

I can just about cope with watching the violence against women (but not really) but bringing children into it to such an extent was way too much tbh.

I found it harder to enjoy.

Oh, the shooting was shocking .

On a lighter note, I have just relayed the posts from tonight to DP, and he is cracking up that MNers are complaining about a serial killer for leaving his kids home alone

I suspect we are meant to feel very unsettled by it.

I don't really like being manipulated quite so much though.

I think I am out. What a shame.

rightsaidthread glad I'm not the only one!

Perhaps she'll end up even more sinister than he is? A sort of Beverley Allitt type killer?

And the twist will be that their daughter is disturbed not by something she's seen her dad do, but her mum!

Ooh good theory, CalamityKate. I like it.

Thing is, daughter is drawing all these gruesome pics but seems very relaxed with dad/keen to be with him.

Well, I'm enjoying this, but I get the voyeurism point from episode 1.

I think it is different in a tv programme to know up front who the killer is and get to have an understanding of his life, his family, and get that perspective.

I'm from NI so when the suspect said "I know where you live" I fully expected him to get shot, and unfortunately here that has happened too many times in front of family. Tbh, I thought it a bit of a cliche that they showed the boy looking out the window cos I thought oh he's going to get shot now.

I'm not sure they are bringing children into it so much as saying this killer is a family man, someone none of us would have second thoughts of. More a reminder that the 30 year old solicitor was once someone's baby and that the wife has a very commendable and stressful job. But she cant regulate her husband can she? Shes not responsible. she thinks he's working in a support role too.

For me, it's saying you don't really know anyone, and I'm finding it fascinating.

If this were a book, I wouldn't be able to put it down. I can't wait for next week. The parallels drawn between the wife struggling to bring people into the world and the husband callously though almost lovingly killing them are really drawing me in.

It must be to do with the husband and wife relationship and I have no idea where it's going to go. Roll on next Monday.

Well, the dad is a serial killer and the mum is maybe sinister and the daughter is drawing disturbing pics. Maybe it's going to turn into horror and the whole family are killers.

Loving it!

I thought that the daughters picture looked like the fathers ones - maybe she's found his notebook.

Blimey I just read MyFunDay's post as "Well MY dad is a serial killer." Maybe I watch too many of these

The scene where GA is shagging the policeman split showing the killer with the girl's body is one of the most disturbing scenes I've seen in a long time.

Where did the babysitter find the lock of hair? Why she did smell it? V odd. Also odd that the mum didn't see huge flashing alarms at young teenager turning up to copy music from the dad. Classic crush scenario.

Why didn't she have an umbrella to lend her? They're in Belfast

I've tried with this, but I'm not watching it any more. Too much stuff in the news lately about men preying on women and young girls, and then we're offered this as Monday night entertainment - no thanks.

Even Gillian Anderson can't make it worthy of redeeming for me.

....and the cliched 15 yo sexy "temptress", of course.

Not impressed

I assumed that the teenage girl might be his next victim...maybe she will be his undoing though.....

I also wondered whether daughter had seen her father's notebook.

Can somebody explain the significance of the parallel between GA sex with and killer washing body. Disburbing but not sure if their is some subtle point I'm missing.

I don't know why the babysitter was still coming on to him after struggle on the floor. I would have got the hell out of there.

Apparently I was right about the Ted Bundy connection. The actor who plays the killer said he studied and read up on him so he's kind of based on him. If it follows the Ted Bundy thing then there's a specific reason he targets those women with long dark hair. Ted Bundy chose women like that because his first girlfriend who he was besotted with had long dark hair, she dumped him saying he would never amount to anything so that's why he took it out on girls that looked like her. So creepy!

I'm guessing he'll be shocked if it comes out that the girl he has just murdered was in fact pregnant. That won't have been part of his perfect plan.

I don't think the babysitter would have been one of his victims. She's too young, and all the other victims were professional women in their thirties. She's put herself in harms way now though. Am thinking he might have to charm her and keep stringing her along just to keep her quiet about what she found although his explanation of it being his Mother's lock of hair was actually quite plausible.

I got a chill when the pathologist turned up on her motorbike and took her helmet off. She is just his type! Seemed to be lots of women with dark hair about in last night's ep too. Those Monroe airline girls all seemed to have dark wigs on too.

Well she's going to be in danger even if she's too young to fit his 'type' - I'm sure as things about the murders come out in the papers, she might start putting two and two together, don't you think? That will make her a liability and he will need to get rid of her..... so she may well be his 'undoing'

I am finding it really disturbing (especially as I am a professional, mid 30's with long dark hair!) and I don't want to watch it but at the same time I want to know what will happen. I can't give it my full attention, I watch it whilst pratting around on my phone as it is too scary, so it is quite useful to read this thread to pick up on the subtleties I am missing!

I am horrified and disturbed by this series but find it compelling. The sobbing of the sister at the victim's house was terrible, I could really feel her grief.