Luckily, as of Jan 22nd, Madeline Davies on Jezebel has done it for me! See her article here.
Originally, I wasn't too keen on the show. I originally started watching it because of Gillian Anderson who plays the main character, Stella Gibson--- a police detective trying to catch a serial killer who has murdered several women in Northern Ireland. To quote Davies synopsis of the show:
"The Fall's ingenious twist is that it's not a whodunnit. The murderer, Paul Spector (played with terrifying coldness by Jamie Dornan), is identified to the audience in the first episode and the plot is as much his as it is Stella Gibson's. The tension that drives you to binge watch comes not from suspicion, but from watching Spector and Gibson's stories as they head towards an intersection, break away from each other, and intersect again.When I first started watching I couldn't take the dramatic irony. As the viewer, especially in the first several episodes, you are privy to build up (and follow through) of acts of violence done by Spector without the power to intervene. If only you could jump in and alert Gibson and her colleagues . . . but you can't. This was too upsetting to me initially and I stopped watching after only a couple episodes.
Skip ahead to about six months later, I learn that Colin Morgan is in the show's second season, so I decide to give the show another chance. I'm really glad I did. This show is about way more than Colin Morgan showing up halfway through the second season. Because this show--- despite maintaining the traditional focus on the dead bodies of women--- is a FEMINIST crime show. And it's more than that. It's a very cleverly constructed feminist criticism of the detective genre.
