‘The Fall’ season 3, episode 6 (finale) review: Is Paul Spector dead?
We are at the end of “The Fall” season 3 (went by fast, didn’t it?) and at the end of the last episode we saw that Paul was caught in his lies. He’s been claiming amnesia, but Stella caught him for a murder that was before the time he couldn’t remember and although he admitted this to his solicitors, will he admit it to Stella?
After speaking to Stella and Anderson, Paul readies to prepare a statement about his involvement in Susan’s death, but instead he goes crazy and punches Stella multiple times in the face, kicking her over and over. We feel that he remembers everything and this has been a huge charade so that he could find a moment to either escape or exact revenge on Stella. He didn’t try to escape, but he hurt Stella pretty badly, so he got some revenge.
As Paul is being brought back to his room at the psychiatric ward, he starts taking note of things he could use… but what is his plan? When the rest of Paul’s test results come in it’s clear that there’s no real problem and that he’s been faking his memory loss this whole time proving just what a dangerous person he really is.
The psychiatrist still believes that Paul may actually have amnesia and psychotic tendencies and feels that he’s treatable, but not necessarily curable. Later Paul asks a fellow patient for a favor and that favor is to create a diversion, so that he can get to a locker and steal his psychiatrist’s belt which he does after beating him nearly to death. After killing the patient that helped him, Paul hangs himself with a belt.
Stella wanted justice for the women who died by Paul’s hands by him serving life in prison, but he was able to escape that sentence by taking his own life and Stella is left feeling a loss for those women. The one win we did get out of this was seeing Rose reading to her daughter at the end of the episode. Seeing her try to get back to some kind of normalcy is a nice thing to see in a series this dark. Now the only question that remains is… with Paul dead will there be a season 4? Episode grade: A-
What did you think of the finale of “The Fall” and the season over all? Leave us a comment in the box below with your thoughts.
osofine
December 8, 2016 @ 5:27 pm
It was frustrating that we never got to see Paul’s wife again after she tried (considered?) killing her kids and herself. It was good that we saw his daughter one last time, but her decision not to see her daddy until she was grown up or had a baby of her own was awfully convenient. There were so many threads to tie up and the ending seemed rushed. The psychological “insight” that Paul/Peter, Stella, and Paul’s teenage fan, Katie, all lost a parent of the opposite sex to suicide seemed like it was supposed to be profound, but wasn’t. This show certainly went the “show, not tell” route (despite an enormous amount of exposition crammed into the last 2 episodes about “Peter’s” time in the boys home and in London) in terms of dialogue. I’m still not sure what the show was trying to accomplish. Maybe a meditation on evil and the choice to act upon dark impulses? Finally, why, why, why was it called, “The Fall”? Whose fall? Fall from what? Was it just a biblical reference? Has anyone read anything from the creators of this show explaining the title (and anything else)?
Of course the acting was superb – I’d watch Gillian Anderson do anything (which sadly led me to watch most of that atrocious show about the bus of rich kids that get kidnapped). Jaime Dornan was fantastic. Really great performances all around, but flawed writing. Oh well.
Blah Blah Blah
October 29, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
I liked it.. BUT the whole “style over sense” can be very frustrating.
There is zero realism on how a dangerous criminal after confessing one murder and attacking 2 police officers is left free running around a clinic and he still has access to dangerous object (I paused the player laughing when I realized there was a pool table in the clinic with.. cue sticks. Cue sticks. Cue sticks in the hands of psychotic murderers. Cue sticks.. I am sorry I repeat it so I can digest it).
Hopefully if there is a season 4 they will manage to make it a tad more realistic.
I for once, wanna see more of Stella Gibson.
Mrs Nesbit
October 29, 2016 @ 12:08 pm
I was disgusted to be honest. After watching Paul Spector assault, torture and kill so many women it seemed to me fitting that one of the principal female characters should have been the ones to end his life. It stinks that he retained control until the end. Misogynistic writing at its best.
MrsCarter101
October 29, 2016 @ 6:06 pm
It’s hard to be excited about an ending that leaves you feeling unsatisfied. I understand that not every show can give the audience a happy ending (or at least an ending where justice is served), but this felt really empty. like the journey was for nothing.
Blah Blah Blah
October 30, 2016 @ 12:07 am
I found the journey disturbing but very interesting. It wasn’t pleasant to watch something coming from the very dark places of human nature, still very well acted and I think well presented.
I do not find it misogynistic, even though Spector certainly was.
It doesnt matter if he went to trial or not,at the end he was caught and stop being a threat. This I call a satisfying ending, since you cannot have a happy ending in a serial murderer case, can you?
I dont believe the principal female characters would like to be his executioners, this not how society should work.