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For its second season, The Fall gets even darker as the lives of Metropolitan Police Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) and serial killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) come closer to finally clashing. With one more episode to work with, writer/creator Allan Cubitt can drag his cat-and-mouse game along.
Picking up just 10 days after the first series ended, Cubitt, who replaces Jakob Verbruggen in the director’s chair, focuses more on Spector. Gibson’s strange relationship with men stays alive throughout the season, but it takes a back seat to the further development of the killer’s character.
Spector is now on the ropes, now that Gibson knows his name and details about his past. He acts out by abducting Rose Stagg (Valene Kane), a woman he nearly strangled while at university. Meanwhile, he also further involves his children’s babysitter, Katie Benedetto (Aisling Franciosi), and lets her obsession with him only grow.
At times, it does feel like Cubitt adds unnecessary twists to keep The Fall going. After all, there's only so many times that he can play paddle-ball with Spector and the police before the audience gets bored. There is also a focus on a curious subplot with a couple Spector counseled that might cause a viewer to get antsy. Eventually though, the subplot crashes head-on into the main plot, but it does take time to get there. This makes season two a bit less focused than the first season, but no less interesting.
The acting is consistently great again. It was also a breakout season for Aisling Franciosi, who gives a fantastic performance as the obsessed teenager.
Like the first season, season two was released on Blu-ray by Acorn Video on March 1. The two-disc set includes nine minutes of short deleted scenes, another 12-minute behind the scenes featurette and a two-minute photo gallery.
Thankfully, a third season of The Fall is in the works.