Everyone in the cast is better than what this show became, and at least now it’s over they might actually find work worthy of their talents. And then he came back to life, because everyone is stupid and nobody learns anything. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy You can understand its embarrassment. Even by most recent standards, The Fall was dire this year. The Average Tomatometer is the sum of all season scores divided by the number of seasons with a Tomatometer. Copyright © Fandango. Somewhere along the line The Fall traded intrigue for atmosphere, hoping that a string of genuinely tedious scenes where Jamie Dornan purrs at nurses would make up for a total absence of plot. Ben Travers Nov 2, 2016 9:00 am A violent finale packed all the show's punches into one episode, but "The Fall" couldn't justify a circular season that felt sickly redundant. About Tomatometer. Once, The Fall was a sexy, unbearably tense thriller. And there was Krister Henriksson, playing Mads Mikkelsen, playing Hannibal. Let’s not discount the possibility of a new series where Dornan, plastic bag still over his head, sits up in the police morgue and starts strangling janitors like billy-o. It was a painful anti-climax that stank of commercial forces. The Fall review: basically 24 Hours in A&E, more artfully shot The other side Still, moody, still sexy, still flawed: The Fall returns for series three Published: 29 Sep 2016 There is nothing special about a bad TV show. Now that it’s done, and Paul Spector is dead and Stella Gibson is back enigmatically muttering like a woman who lost her keys, it’s hard to fathom why anyone was ever excited about this dreary puddle of a show in the first place. Except that didn’t happen. Forgot your password? But a good TV show that turns bad is a different matter. When that happens, it’s hard not to take it personally. Like anyone else who watched it, I can pinpoint the exact moment The Fall fell apart. Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson leads a case to catch a serial killer following an unsolved murder in Belfast. It is produced by Artists Studio, and shown on RTÉ One in the Republic of Ireland and BBC Two in the UK. The Fall is an Irish-British crime drama television series filmed and set in Northern Ireland. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Bad TV shows are ten-a-penny. A series gets an Average Tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. The world is overrun with them; their births barely acknowledged, their deaths unmourned. It didn’t, but that didn’t stop the show from pulling out a Greatest Hits of Inexplicable Dramatic Cliches in its bid to look as if it knew what it was doing. Don't have an account? Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself. I’m trying not to take The Fall personally. But it did not. Watching The Fall from start to finish has been like watching a bouncy castle deflate. This used to be a taut game of cat and mouse … Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson. When a once-promising show – like Broadchurch or Dexter or True Detective – rewards your devotion by dissolving into a soggy morass of nothing, that really stings. Every episode, as Spector’s murders grew more brutal and the circle closed in around him, was even more unbearably tense than the last. There was amnesia. Created by Allan Cubitt. Gibson was finally supposed to come face-to-face with Spector, allowing us to see all the violence and chemistry that had long been promised. A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serial killer in this procedural out of Belfast. It really stings when good TV goes bad, Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 21.00 GMT. Did the BBC think Jamie Dornan purring at nurses would make up for a total absence of plot? Finally exposed as a murderer, Spector suddenly gained the superpower of route-one exposition, eroding his mystique with one tedious monologue about his motivations after another. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. A series gets an Average Tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. Tarsem's "The Fall" is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms.