The Fall

Gilliam Anderson was well known for playing Dana Scully in the X Fliles Series which ran for years and had quite a cult following.

She won an award for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Award in London in NovemberNovember 2014 for her role in A Street Car Named Desire.

I think she came over as wooden and 'distant' because that is exactly what her character called for. She found difficulty in relationships hence her love um and leave um attitude. Spectre obviously found there was an issue with her relationship with her father when he read her diary and Spectre had issues with his mother hence he kept a lock of his mother's hair. They were united in a weird similarity of their past and lack of ability to commit, other than Spectre with his children.

Here's Anderson being herself, and again here.

I've never watched Gillian A in anything before.
Really liked The Fall but thought her acting pretty poor, or else she was very good at acting in a wooden emotionless fashion. Couldn't quite get to grips with her character.

No, she's usually more animated than that. I wondered if it was purely her take on a british accent.

POGS, I thought exactly the same.

Watched the whole series in about 2 and a half days after reading up in Wiki what the first series was about at the suggestion of one of the GNs and really enjoyed it.

I thought the girl who played Katie was very realistic as a young girl obsessed with an older man.

I found Gillian A's acting rather suspect - laboured speech, few facial expressions, very high heels, did she go into the forest wearing them ? I wonder if she always acts like that as I have never seen her before.

I have just watched the final episode and my take is Spectre died in her arms.

I think the point was made she thought more of getting help for Spectre rather than the young detective she had just slept with. The young detective had made reference to her possibly having a 'bit of a thing' for Spectre meaning she had got too close mentally through it all and she found an attraction for Spectre, she had some weird issues in her own life which Spectre knew about through reading her diary.

I thought it was good adult entertainment and I enjoyed the acting and storyline, I just wish the Fall, The Missing didn't try to be clever with their ending, are the BBC drama production team trying to emulate The Sopranos or something? They think it's cool whilst the viewer think it's arty farty.

Thanks grannyknot and granart, you jogged my memory for me... and Ana of course you are right , he's not actually dead.

A touch of laryngitis might help, but I wouldn't wish that on you, Teetime! Don't forget to keep your face expressionless at all times, and don't move your lips when you speak...

Yes it is worth watching.

Didn't think he did but his murderer told the journalist that PS had given him his black eye and he seemed to believe that he had given his wife the benefit as it were and she screamed at him that she had but that may juts have been to goad him. I did drop off at one pint when all the murmurings were going on mid interview.

Am practising my enigmatic murmerings on DH who keeps saying 'WHAT'. Clearly I am not fascinating yet perhaps its cos I don't have any lip gloss on.

Tanith he went upstairs with her to look at her dead sons bedroom and she asked him to hold her which he did. And that was all.
I thought it was an appropriate ending for a series that focused so much on emotions. The plot was somewhat questionable as ever with police dramas but I thought the depth of emotion that it explored was different and interesting. I hope there is a third series.

And let's not forget, Spector's not actually dead yet...

tanith I don't think/believe that he did ... and that character Jimmy was irrationally jealous.

Can anyone answer my question? please its bugging me now.

teetime lol. My husband kept asking "Why is she speaking funny?"

I thought it was good though for the genre. Couldn't quite work out re the domestic violence subplot but it was tied in quite neatly (albeit predictably) at the end.

Very creepy. Worth watching as long as you don't ask too many questions like the ones the previous posters have made. All too easy to pick holes once you start, I imagine the real police watching this and laughing.

Some of it was very unpleasant and I did wonder just a bit if there was some voyeurism in the scenes of the killer with his victims. There was some frightening violence too, probably that's the norm these days from the little bits of similar films and series I've watched.

If you're a fan of The Bridge or Spiral, it's a bit like that but not as good.

I am going to start speaking in an enigmatically low and slow voice wearing lots of lip gloss and dangling my hair in front of my face to see if people find me fascinating. Totally predictable end I thought.

"And why did Gillian Anderson's character have to go wandering off in the forest on her own?"

If there was vehicle access to the location where the car had been abandoned, why didn't they just drive there?

It always amuses me the way SOCOs get dressed in nylon overalls before the enter the crime scene, but the lead characters walk in there wearing civvies, and start pawing everything.

Then there's Silent Witness, they'll handle a Dictaphone with gloves that have just been rummaging in a stiff, and then take the gloves off and pick up the Dictaphone again.

I meant to ask as I think I missed a bit did Paul Spectre have sex with the wife of his murderer? Or was he killed for something he actually didn't do?

I thought it came together quite well at the end and enjoyed the series.. but I do agree about her wandering around alone and also she was in the interview room alone with a known serial killer! REALLY!!! like that would ever happen but I suppose it wouldn't of worked so well if there were a couple of burly coppers looking over her shoulder..

And why did Gillian Anderson's character have to go wandering off in the forest on her own? Yes as soon as she asked for a crowbar, an obliging police officer appeared instantly at her side...

Presumably not, merlot, if there's going to be yet another series!

I was really hoping last night's finale would be the end of it...

Really scary. Especially the violent husband scene. I still wished for a really good explosive ending to the whole series. I run out of steam if series go on to long....perhaps I'm just impatient. It's been really good nail biting stuff though

I'd better stay away from this thread for now!

I only got halfway through last night's episode as was on GN too long and had to watch on catch-up! I think it's been very good so far.