The Fall
News, comment, reviews and features on BBC's serial-killer drama The Fall
From Line of Duty to The Fall: why can't TV shows stop killing women?
Extreme violence against women seems to have become a staple of TV crime shows. Writers and producers reveal what’s behind the high female body count – and what needs to change
Masochism for the masses: why The Fall is still so dangerously gripping
The 2013 series about a serial killer and the police officer hunting him – now on Netflix in the UK – feels like it is particularly aiming to scare women who live alone. Is that fair?
After The Fall, Jamie Dornan returns in Irish period drama
Director Allan Cubitt tells why he cast actor in revenge tragedy Death and Nightingales
The Guardian view on violence against women on stage and screen
Are women responsible for all the extreme sexual violence on screen?
The show mustn't go on: the TV dramas that didn't know when to quit
Renewal of 13 Reasons Why and rumors that Big Little Lies could return are just the latest examples of small-screen stories that should know when to sign off
Jump the shark
When good TV goes bad: how The Fall fell from graceAfter a compelling first series, the serial killer thriller began to lose its grip. What followed was a cavalcade of preposterousness
2016 in TV
From Top Gear to The X-Files: the six worst TV shows of 2016The past year has been more abject than most, so it feels fitting to concentrate on its most disappointing television shows as we near 2016’s end. And there were plenty of duds to pick from
Modern tribes
Modern tribes: the box set boreThe measure
From Puffa jackets to shoulder robing: this week’s fashion trends
The Fall: why were we ever excited about this dead dog of a show?
TV tonight
Thursday’s best TV: The Fall, Paranoid, The Night OfActor Doon Mackichan hits out at 'crime porn' TV thrillers
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Fall; The Level; Damned
TV review
The Fall review: basically 24 Hours in A&E, more artfully shotSeason three kicks off with creepy serial killer Paul Spector at death’s door in hospital. So we can all rest easy … right?
The other side
Still, moody, still sexy, still flawed: The Fall returns for series threeThe crime thriller is back, boasting buff villains, buckets of blood and the brilliant Gillian Anderson. It’s a shame they keep stringing out the story though
For The Fall to get off TV's critical list, Paul Spector must die
BBC's The Fall is not misogynistic, insists its writer
Observer New Review Q&A
Aisling Bea: ‘I am making no money in LA, but creatively it is rewarding’
Mark Lawson on television
Armed and dangerous: how Belfast became the capital of crime TVThe Secret, a new drama based on the startling story of a devoutly murderous dentist, is just the latest big-hitting series to be filmed in Northern Ireland. What made Ulster the crime TV hotspot?
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