to another post. I know I have been a bit MIA lately on here. But hey ho I am trying. Today's post is on The Fall
The Fall is a British Irish tv show that follows around serial killer Paul and police officer Stella.
Stella is called in after a spate of murders in Belfast are flung unsolved after 28 days. She puts it all together and realizes that rather then the murders all being separate they are all linked. While Paul (the actual murderer) is attacking professional women in the city. Killing them, on one occasion the victim actually survived and he had killed her brother in a violent rage after he stopped him while the one victim was unconscious.
Paul is a family man. Married with two children. He is also a bereavement Councillor. during the day and most nights he is stalking and killing women in their 30's and manipulating his teenage baby sitter. His wife has no idea that he is killing these woman. He loves his daughter but the relationship with his son isn't really explained. Even when he looses his memory he remembers his daughter but not his son. After one killing he goes to see a victim of his that didn't die, she doesn't realize that it was him that had tried to kill her
A series of events leads Stella to realize who is the killer and they follow him and finally arrested him.
While in police custody he will not speak to anyone but Stella. Before being arrested he kidnapped an ex girlfriend and was keeping her hostage. While being interviewed he agrees to take them to the place where she is being held and while there he is shot and seriously injured.
Series three starts with doctors trying to safe his life while the police officer that was handcuffed to him was injured.
What I liked about this show was that it shows both sides. The crime and the police work. I liked how they showed that the killer had a normal adult life and did normal adult things. Like looking after his kids and having a job. But also that he is killing and is a bad person. He also has an affair with his children's teenage babysitter who becomes obsessed with him.
I like how you don't know what's going to happen. You know he's killed and you know he is bad but he also seems like a normal person.
I liked how he would go and be in places where his victims where. Like at a bar. I liked how Paul was in a situation where he was counselling one of his victims who had survived (her brother didn't) yet she had no idea who he was.
I also liked that there other story lines within the main story such as his wife's job and the sexual relations between Stella and other members of her team.
Each episode is an hour long and in that hour there is so much drama and action it's brilliant. I must admit though I was binge watching it. So much so it took me two days too watch it. (When I first wrote this paragraph series three had not yet been released. It now has and it took me less then a day to watch it)
It took me a while to get into the first episode. But as soon as they started talking and getting more into the story line(s) I started loving it.
The Hollyokas connection was kinda big in it. Not it the story line but with the actors. 4 actors were in it that were in Hollyoaks. And at times I did want Paul's wife to yell at one of the detectives because of the hollyoaks connection. At times I found that when those two actors were in a scene together that it worked really well because of them acting together before.
What I will also say is that I enjoyed it that much that I wanted the third season to be on Netflix. About a week later it was on Netflix which got me really exited.
The chemistry between the actors is fantastic. Each series finale wanted made me want the next series to start. So much so that before the third series was added to Netflix I actually tweeted out that I wanted the third season to be on there.
Lauren
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