If you recently discovered your penchant for dark obsessions in Reindeer Baby, you’ll love The Fall on Netflix: Two superstars engage in a gripping duel over 3 seasons
Dark images and grueling thrills await in The Fall: Death in Belfast as investigator Stella Gibson and serial killer Paul Spector face off. What follows is an unstoppable psychological duel between two restless souls that gets under your skin as a gripping thriller and moving drama.
The Fall was produced from 2013 to 2016 for the British broadcaster BBC Two and is currently streaming on Netflix.
On Netflix: The Fall is a relentless chase with two superstars
This is what The Fall is about: Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson is called from London to Belfast to investigate an unsolved murder. She instinctively suspects a serial killer behind the crime and is confirmed in this assumption shortly afterwards by another murder.
At the same time, we are introduced to family therapist Paul Spector, a seemingly happily married family man. In secret, however, he repeatedly stalks young women and brutally murders them. Paul soon sees his existence threatened by Stella’s investigations and both main characters develop an almost obsessive urge to bring each other down.
(The Fall: Death in Belfast)
Atmospherically dense shifts in perspective between the two antagonists create a uniquely dark pull, while Stella slowly but inexorably picks up Paul’s trail
Two Hollywood stars in Belfast: The two are played by Hollywood stars Gillian Anderson (X-Files, Sex Education) and Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey in 50 Shades of Grey), who play each other to the hilt.
The cat-and-mouse game is not for the faint-hearted
What unfolds below is not a playful guessing game, but an intense power struggle from two exciting perspectives. The series approaches one and the same story from opposite angles: Paul’s efforts to preserve his carefully staged double life are just as gripping as Stella’s attempt to penetrate the psyche of the serial killer.
This is a delicate balancing act: although the psychopath Paul is never romanticized or trivialized at any point, the viewer, like Stella, feels the desire to understand his motives. The suspense arises less from the question of who the serial killer Paul Spector is. It arises from the dark past that has shaped him into a killer.
The intense performances of Gillian Anderson as the relentless strategist and Jamie Dornan as the man with two faces effortlessly transfer the mutual attraction of their characters to the audience. The longer the game of hide-and-seek between Stella and Paul goes on, the more it becomes clear that their final encounter will end in tragedy.
