The Fall

[alan45]

Fantastic wasn't it Alan and a great cast as well.

Took me a while to get to sleep last night

Yes it really was. Cant wait till next week.

[tammyy2j]

I found it a bit slow but it was the first episode so will tune in again

[Perdita]

27th May 2013

Spoiler:

As Gibson takes control of the hunt for the serial killer striking against women in Belfast, the realisation that his perfect kill is tainted pushes Spector into looking for his next victim.
Gibson takes control of the serial killer case and while bringing Burns up to speed with her investigation they are interrupted by a phonecall reporting the fatal shooting of an officer. As Burns leaves, he instructs Gibson to get herself a firearm: the danger of policing in Northern Ireland suddenly hits home.

As Gibson and the investigative team are running through what they know so far about the killer of Fiona Gallagher, Alice Monroe and Sarah Kay, Spector is examining the house of a potential victim.

At the police station, Gibson informs Burns about her night with Olson. Forced to stand by her, Burns joins Gibson at a press conference where she announces the hunt for the serial killer. As Spector watches the news report of the press conference, he comes eye-to-eye with Gibson for the first time.

Later on, the Spectors are visiting Sally Ann’s parents at their farmhouse located outside the city, where Spector discovers an abandoned, derelict building. He decides to return to the site: it is clear he has found himself the perfect lair and starts to move his secret possessions out of the loft at home to keep here.

As he returns to his car to collect some final possessions, the radio news announces that Sarah Kay was pregnant at the time of her death. This news shakes Spector to his core, and he sits staring at the mannequin, its blank stare mirrored in Spector’s eyes.

Compelled to erase his mistakes with Sarah Kay, Spector’s darkest desires are directed at Annie Brawley. As he stands just inches from her, unseen in the shadows, he knows he has selected the next perfect victim.

[Perdita]

3rd June 2013

Spoiler:

When Eastwood’s investigation into Olson’s murder throws open some uncomfortable truths for Burns, Gibson comes under increased pressure in her hunt for Belfast’s killer.
Spector and Gibson go about their methodical daily physical rituals. As Spector runs down by the city docks, Gibson swims lengths determinedly, the press statement that Burns made the night before about the murder of James Olson ringing in her head.

Eastwood brings Burns up to speed on the Olson murder case, having learnt that Breedlove was the person who called Olson’s phone and was involved in illegal activity at Aaron Monroe’s party. Burns orders Eastwood to bring Breedlove in for questioning.

Meanwhile, Spector is being questioned by his boss for his visit to Liz Tyler. Spector tries to brush it away, but Charles Chandler is persistent, and insists on talking to Liz Tyler herself. But Spector successfully manipulates Liz Tyler into reporting her husband’s abuse and Chandler has to watch as Liz is led away into protection by specialist police.

Under pressure, Gibson revisits the Sarah Kay crime scene with Professor Tanya Reed Smith, and together they discover a potential new lead. But will it stop Spector in time and save the life of his next victim, Annie Brawley?

[alan45]

Much as I love spoilers for the soaps I will not be reading the spoilers for this programme as I think it would ruin the suspense

[Katy]

i agree Alan, I think spoilers are ok for soaps cause there is already that sort of predictability about them where as drama is written with the suspense in mind i feel and you arent meant to know whats happening.

[alan45]

It is 17 years since Gillian Anderson was voted the World’s Sexiest Woman by readers of a men’s magazine.
It was midway through her stint as the icily cerebral FBI agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, which ran for nine series, spawned two movies and launched her international career.
Post-Scully, she recounts with a laugh: ‘I’ve played a succession of tightly-wound, dark, confused, suicidal women.’

Mother-of-three Gillian Anderson is back on our screens in her biggest role since The X-Files
None of them have been remotely sexy and they have all been supporting roles, after she decided headlining work would take a back seat to motherhood — she has a daughter, Piper, now 18, and two sons, Oscar, six, and Felix, four — and even turned down the leading role of Lady Cora, Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
But now Gillian is back in her biggest role since The X-Files, as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson in the new five-part BBC2 thriller The Fall, which began last week. She may be 44 but she plays a woman in her sexual prime. Perhaps it’s time to start dusting off that 1996 FHM award.

Gillian, who has been married twice and last year admitted having several lesbian relationships in her youth (‘they were just a phase’), says she couldn’t be happier. ‘If Stella finds a man attractive, she doesn’t hesitate to make the first move. I quite like that in a woman, I’ve discovered,’ she says huskily.
‘I like the way Stella is so sexually confident but there are consequences to that, as you’ll see over the serial.
‘I would quite like to be like her. But I found filming the sex scenes difficult. It always is. Both sides get very nervous and you think, “What if he’s a terrible kisser?” I’m pleased Stella keeps her clothes on, though. I am not happy naked on film. But Stella is comfortable in her own skin. She’s much more feminine than Scully ever was.’

The Fall is a 5-part detective drama, written by Prime Suspect 2 writer Allan Cubitt
‘Whenever I think of that show, I think of a 12-year-old pretending to be an agent. Scully felt quite childlike for a long time and a part of that was because I was only in my early 20s when I started to play her. Audiences got to see us both grow up.’
Gillian met her first husband, art director Clyde Klotz, on set, and filmed throughout her subsequent pregnancy with Piper.
She was still working on The X-Files when they split in 1997.
When The X-Files finished, she decided to shun Hollywood and move back to Britain, where she grew up until the age of 11, with her second husband, the documentary maker Julian Ozanne.
Their marriage only lasted a couple of years but she stayed in the country, where she met businessman Mark Griffiths, father of her two sons. They split last year.
With three children to juggle, Gillian admits she made the difficult decision to only take on work if she could do it without having to spend weeks away from them. It means she has rejected some plum roles.

Anderson shot to fame as FBI agent Dana Scully, who searched for alien life with Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny
‘My 18-year-old cannot believe that I would turn down Game Of Thrones or Downton — things she loves to watch,’ she sighs. ‘But if I am going to be spending that amount of time working on something I would rather be working with a director like Martin Scorsese.’
The parts she has taken — notably Miss Havisham in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations, Lady Dedlock in Bleak House and Mrs Castaway in The Crimson Petal And The White — have been notable for the plaudits she received (including Bafta and Emmy nominations for Lady Dedlock) and their brevity.
When the script for The Fall arrived, she actually turned it down without looking at it. But she was persuaded to read it, as it was created by Prime Suspect 2 writer Allan Cubitt — and he had written it with her in mind.
‘I had watched Prime Suspect years ago and loved it. The Jane Tennison character [played by Helen Mirren] was brilliant; she was self-centred and had ego and was a little bit self-righteous. Stella is different to Jane but there is something quite mysterious about who exactly she is. As I was reading the script I wanted to know more about her.’
Once the producers agreed she could go home from the Belfast set each weekend, filming could start on a show good enough to attract over 3.5 million viewers when it began this week — and a second series is already on the cards.

[alan45]

It is 17 years since Gillian Anderson was voted the World’s Sexiest Woman by readers of a men’s magazine.
It was midway through her stint as the icily cerebral FBI agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, which ran for nine series, spawned two movies and launched her international career.
Post-Scully, she recounts with a laugh: ‘I’ve played a succession of tightly-wound, dark, confused, suicidal women.’

Mother-of-three Gillian Anderson is back on our screens in her biggest role since The X-Files
None of them have been remotely sexy and they have all been supporting roles, after she decided headlining work would take a back seat to motherhood — she has a daughter, Piper, now 18, and two sons, Oscar, six, and Felix, four — and even turned down the leading role of Lady Cora, Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
But now Gillian is back in her biggest role since The X-Files, as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson in the new five-part BBC2 thriller The Fall, which began last week. She may be 44 but she plays a woman in her sexual prime. Perhaps it’s time to start dusting off that 1996 FHM award.

Gillian, who has been married twice and last year admitted having several lesbian relationships in her youth (‘they were just a phase’), says she couldn’t be happier. ‘If Stella finds a man attractive, she doesn’t hesitate to make the first move. I quite like that in a woman, I’ve discovered,’ she says huskily.
‘I like the way Stella is so sexually confident but there are consequences to that, as you’ll see over the serial.
‘I would quite like to be like her. But I found filming the sex scenes difficult. It always is. Both sides get very nervous and you think, “What if he’s a terrible kisser?” I’m pleased Stella keeps her clothes on, though. I am not happy naked on film. But Stella is comfortable in her own skin. She’s much more feminine than Scully ever was.’

The Fall is a 5-part detective drama, written by Prime Suspect 2 writer Allan Cubitt
‘Whenever I think of that show, I think of a 12-year-old pretending to be an agent. Scully felt quite childlike for a long time and a part of that was because I was only in my early 20s when I started to play her. Audiences got to see us both grow up.’
Gillian met her first husband, art director Clyde Klotz, on set, and filmed throughout her subsequent pregnancy with Piper.
She was still working on The X-Files when they split in 1997.
When The X-Files finished, she decided to shun Hollywood and move back to Britain, where she grew up until the age of 11, with her second husband, the documentary maker Julian Ozanne.
Their marriage only lasted a couple of years but she stayed in the country, where she met businessman Mark Griffiths, father of her two sons. They split last year.
With three children to juggle, Gillian admits she made the difficult decision to only take on work if she could do it without having to spend weeks away from them. It means she has rejected some plum roles.

Anderson shot to fame as FBI agent Dana Scully, who searched for alien life with Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny
‘My 18-year-old cannot believe that I would turn down Game Of Thrones or Downton — things she loves to watch,’ she sighs. ‘But if I am going to be spending that amount of time working on something I would rather be working with a director like Martin Scorsese.’
The parts she has taken — notably Miss Havisham in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations, Lady Dedlock in Bleak House and Mrs Castaway in The Crimson Petal And The White — have been notable for the plaudits she received (including Bafta and Emmy nominations for Lady Dedlock) and their brevity.
When the script for The Fall arrived, she actually turned it down without looking at it. But she was persuaded to read it, as it was created by Prime Suspect 2 writer Allan Cubitt — and he had written it with her in mind.
‘I had watched Prime Suspect years ago and loved it. The Jane Tennison character [played by Helen Mirren] was brilliant; she was self-centred and had ego and was a little bit self-righteous. Stella is different to Jane but there is something quite mysterious about who exactly she is. As I was reading the script I wanted to know more about her.’
Once the producers agreed she could go home from the Belfast set each weekend, filming could start on a show good enough to attract over 3.5 million viewers when it began this week — and a second series is already on the cards.

[Katy]

Im going to have to record these and watch in daylight. Didnt sleep again last night! Id like to know when I became such a wuss.

[Dazzle]

I'm really enjoying (if that's the right word for it!) The Fall, particularly Gillian Anderson's character.

I'm having trouble seeing Paul as evil though, because I've got such a strong memory of Jamie Dornan as the good and heartbreaking sheriff/huntsman in Once Upon a Time. The character Paul in The Fall is inscrutable and doesn't have much personality, so he's not making as much of an impression on me. I hope we see more of Paul's inner self to gain insight into his character.