The Missus and I have just finished a marathon box set watch which we started a couple of weeks ago.
The series in question is The Fall from 2013-2016.
It starred Gillian Anderson - yes Scully no less! - in the lead role of a SIO, which I found out meant Senior Investigating Officer, although a lot of other folk stuck their oar in.
Being once voted the most beautiful woman in the world Gillian caused a right old stir down the Belfast nick but once her colleagues had finished gawping the show settled down to some serious crime fighting. Gillian had lost none of her patient detection honed on the X-Files!
The crimes in the Fall were heinous and many and became known early on as the work of the Belfast Strangler, although it wasn't clear how many were involved, stranglers or victims.
Without giving anything away I can recommend the Fall if you have a spare hour for about 20 nights. I think there's around 20 episodes over 5 seasons. It ended in 2016. Its all available on Netflix or iPlayer.
There is rumour of a series 6 and we'd watch it for sure.
Now Scully's gone again we're watching Beck.
Have you seen it?
We watched the Fall recently too, although im not a fan of crime dramas usually, this was quite good. Of course Gillian Andersons smouldering performance carries it for me. I can recommend Slow Horses with Gary Oldman, a spy thriller. Really good
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip on the slow horse. It'll probably come in last though! ha ha
ReplyDeleteBy coincidence last night my wife and I watched the last episode of The Fall after watching the series on Netflix here in NYC over the last few weeks.
ReplyDeleteWe tend to watch a lot of UK TV crime series as there's nothing like watching a quiet country village with two or three murders a week. An inexhaustible supply of dead bodies!
I found The Fall was a new level of violence for TV, possibly because the setting was Northern Ireland with its history of sectarian violence. The character Anderson played was an outsider to the setting and I found it was like watching Scully with an unrelated crime story playing out around her.
We had watched Anderson in 'Sex Education' on Netflix, which was a better test of her acting as it wasn't Scully revisited.
The last episode was certainly violent Terran. I will have to watch Sex Education!
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