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The Fall, Series 2

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ThreeQuartersEmpty · 28/10/2014 20:05

Series 2 of The Fall begins on Thursday 13 November, 9pm on BBC2.

Here's the trailer. youtube

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alltoomuchrightnow · 30/11/2014 00:51

I didn't like her at first but now the character has kind of bewitched me. A bit Cate Blanchett perfect perhaps, but apparently much nicer in real life. did anyone watch her as the shrink in Hannibal? again immaculately dressed, very restrained and cool

alltoomuchrightnow · 30/11/2014 03:03

both beautiful....

The Fall, Series 2
BingoBonkers · 30/11/2014 08:04

I spotted the kiss coming a mile off! Didn't think it was overly believable.

Can't believe they haven't closed in in him yet!

hollyisalovelyname · 30/11/2014 08:32

On tonight on RTE 1.
Yay !

Blondeshavemorefun · 30/11/2014 12:02

But of a boring epidsode. If they know its Spector why arent they trying to find him

Wtf is the babysitter doing? Lying like that? She Obv fancies him but does she think that he did it?

We3KingyofOblomovAre · 30/11/2014 12:36

The only reason they haven't arrested him, is that they are still hoping he will lead them to the hostage, and thus they will get the hostage alive, rather than another dead body.

TheDogsMissingBollock · 30/11/2014 12:46

Plus they don't know where he is.

hollyisalovelyname · 30/11/2014 17:30

Is Rose dead? Do you remember he tried to get to her but there was a courting couple in a car and he couldn't get to her 'prison'.
Has she starved to death?
I think his wife is sooo naieve.

DustBunnyFarmer · 30/11/2014 18:52

Holly - we heard her hammering the inside of the car boot after the courting couple scene, so he must have gone back for her. I think whether she is alive or not depends on how quickly they find her car, which I'm assuming he dumped in the middle of nowhere (necessitating the stolen car to get back to Belfast).

DustBunnyFarmer · 30/11/2014 18:53

Also, that photo upthread is lovely alltoomuch. Sod the 50 shades films, I'd pay good money to see Gillian spanking Jamie.

DustBunnyFarmer · 30/11/2014 18:53

Or vice versa.

alltoomuchrightnow · 30/11/2014 19:22

yep!! ;-)

TheDietStartsTomorrow · 30/11/2014 20:26

Bingo, I also knew they were going to kiss as soon as as I saw the pathologist going into the bar with GA. It was all too Kalinda-esque and I wish they'd been a bit more original. It doesn't even add to the storyline much. Unless she is also unbelievably abducted and we have GA blaming herself for that too.

rootypig · 01/12/2014 01:27

Finally watched! still pissed off with the babysitter character - I can well believe a 16 year old would be that horny and stupid, but the character swings wildly from naive and hormonal, to suspicious, to knowing and even willingly complicit... it just doesn't work. The scene where he fed her a pack of lies (and based on a very thin pretext of English Irish rivalry - presumably some link to his English soldier father) was I think his weakest scene by a mile, just crap writing. I also thought him breaking into her hotel room to read her diary and leave a note, rather than kill her, feels gimmicky. Until this week, I thought his character was building amazingly into a total maniac, but now.

Presumably all he heard and read in her hotel room is going to be used in some humiliating campaign to discredit the police - the Monroe scandal is presumably going to break at some point. I'm starting to think that 'the fall' isn't necessarily going to be Spector's, or only his....

Otherwise the kiss with the pathologist (and that actress is shit, her voice and even her bloody outfits never change from character to character) made me groan, it was totally crass misogynist bollocks and I hated it. And though GA is mesmerisingly beautiful, thinking more broadly, WHY does the Stella character have to wiggle around in cripplingly tight leather skirts? Why can't she be a brilliant police officer and have crap hair and wear M&S trousers, for christ's sake? the other police officers are convincingly badly dressed Grin

I thought the most interesting bit of the episode was Rose on video, referencing what he was "doing" to her. I wonder.

Otherwise it's just stupidly elaborate. Was still scared shitless though Blush

hollyisalovelyname · 01/12/2014 07:15

Heart pounding stuff Smile

LatinForTelly · 01/12/2014 13:58

I'm getting a bit hacked off with this now. I think the babysitter's character lacks credibility, as you say, rootypig. Either she's sussed that he's a serial killer and is onto him, or she fancies him and thinks he's a bit dangerous but essentially harmless, not both.

Also think quite a lot of it now is titillation loosely cloaked in moral outrage, like the daily mail trashy papers do(es) so well.

Having said that, I really want Rose to be alive, and the bastard to be caught. I've only seen him in this, so just find him revolting and creepy.

BingoBonkers · 01/12/2014 14:50

When he woke up after his nightmare and walked over to the sink in his brooding manner all I could think was JUST WALK NORMALLY!!!

FamiliesShareGerms · 01/12/2014 19:25

Presumably the "will the two women go up to her room?" was in part to raise the tension into "will they both get killed because there's a maniac in there who has got the key in unbelievable circumstances"

MamaMary · 01/12/2014 21:50

Weighing in to say I agree with Latin - this whole series is misogynistic, titillating, implausible trash.

Now they've even made a victim of Stella: the last scene where she was supposed to be so afraid and almost in tears... It's all about playing on every woman's deepest fears.

The sexualising and objectifying of every single woman - Katie and Stella included - I find hard to take.

It's reprehensible in my view.

And I will be raging if Spector dies before justice is done.

TheDogsMissingBollock · 01/12/2014 21:52

Yep, agree, yet another decent series with a strong, admirable female lead selling out after a successful first series.

Noellefielding · 01/12/2014 21:59

mamamary I know what you mean, I do have concerns about the glamorising of this violence in part because Dornan is just so attractive and I can't find him properly scary like real fictional serial killers (Silence of the Lambs.... Manhunter.... pulse stopping scary killers) because I saw him do a silly walk on Graham Norton and he just looks like a self effacing tall model to me. Not sinister enough.
But also I am so besotted with Stella that the plot is almost irrelevant. I could watch her choosing a shirt or eating a yoghurt or putting on nail varnish while John Lynch watches her sobbing quietly with his knuckles in his mouth for the suffering of doing so.

MamaMary · 01/12/2014 22:14

Yes, and we're actually supposed to sympathise with a serial killer now now, because of his difficult childhood. I can't take much more of this. I'm glad it's getting at least some stick for being misogynistic, because it is. This professor has it spot on: 'despite claiming to be a gritty real-life drama, [it] conveys nothing of the horror and abasement of serial killing.'

Daily Mail link but written by a Professor who gets it right

Noellefielding · 01/12/2014 22:16

I think you are probably right, but I am too besotted to be analytical!

guineapiglet · 01/12/2014 22:23

Noelle, if you admire her languid ness/languidity (both apply!) in this, watch BBC version ofBleak House in which she played the ultra haughty and uber languid Lady Dedlock .... Brilliant. You will not be disappointed....

Noellefielding · 01/12/2014 22:27

i did and I was!
Grin
but she's even lovelier here...