The Fall (TV Series) Beauty Hath Strange Power (2014) User Reviews

Oh, for goodness sake ...

[Matti-Man · 6/10 · 16 May 2021]

So, Stella Gibson knows that a hostile journalist is trying to get dirt against her and has already disclosed the name of her hotel in the newspaper. Yet she leaves her private journal - with details of her thoughts and doubts - on the bedside table, where any of the hotel staff could pick it up and sell it to the journalist. She also leaves her laptop lying out, instead of locking it in the room's safe. The latter would be considered gross misconduct by any organisation, and be grounds for dismissal.

It's lazy plotting, where the writer wants to plot to go in a certain direction, then has the characters act illogically to make that happen.

Now, please, will someone stab Paul Spector in the neck so we can all get on with our lives?

Overrated and flawed

[jakewilkinson12 · 5/10 · 3 November 2020]

If you're happy to let things go then you can enjoy this. Unfortunately I'm a stickler for the details and need shows to be realistic.

GA acting is strange to me and the offshoots of her sexual encounters seem strange and not relevant.

The reason I have reviewed this episode is that it has now at the point where it would've been wrapped up. It is obvious who the killer is and they are just sitting back not really doing much.

When the car comes up the road and sees the police and stops. GA notices it and he turns the lights off and reverses to leave the scene. All she does is stare at him in some sort of act of defiance. All she had to do was get a car to chase and question him?

The 15/16 year old girl who continues to be involved despite being attacked, tied up and strangled by a man 20+ years older? And she covers for him?

Finally some of the murders are just very implausible. He walks around their homes whilst their in without being seen. He ever goes to the detectives hotel room. He gives his real name to the surviving victim as her counsellor but they don't pick up on it.

So like I say if you can just look past all the flaw and how unrealistic it is then maybe you can enjoy it more.

A perfect example of insulting the intelligence of the audience

[aksvare · 1/10 · 24 March 2023]

It has a relatively good story.

But in this episode of the series, we face a sudden fall!

-«(SPOIL)»- Season one of the series gets an acceptable score. But in the second season and especially the third episode, you feel like you are watching a children's movie; This mode reaches its peak where the villain of the story (Paul) incredibly gets the key card of the hotel rooms where "Stella" is there!

The story doesn't end there, but he easily enters Stella's room and without the slightest worry or anxiety about her returning to the room, he starts walking and even sits on the bed and reads her notebook!

Wait, it's not over yet!

We also see that when Stella returns to the room, Paul is hiding in the wardrobe and watching her through the crack in the door!

At this moment, Stella's superior suddenly comes to see her and enters the room. After he leaves, Stella notices that Paul has entered her room and... But again, amazingly, Paul has left the room without Stella or his superiors noticing his presence!

I really tell the creators of the series, don't be tired!

Answer to jakewilkinson12: Don't forget that Stella doesn't want Paul to know about the progress they've made on the case.

Because in this episode, Stella tells her colleagues that "our priority is to find Rose".

So if they started chasing or even arresting Paul there, they might have unforeseen problems in finding and freeing Rose.

Buncha creeps

[dierregi · 1/10 · 8 December 2022]

First of all, what with the weird titles of each episode in this creepy series? Whose beauty exactly? Because there isn't a single beautiful character in this show, either metaphorically or physically. The Paul guy is barely OK, even if I know he was a model, but only good for today's standards of ugly beauty and he's morally repulsive.

Stella is such a cold fish and of course she must be bisexual to fit into the contemporary standards of the strong, successful woman. Maybe she should focus more on the investigation and less on preying on her colleagues. The Katie character is the embodiment of some male fantasy about the sexually available teenager smarter than the rest of the world.

At some stage I would have felt fine with Paul killing both Katie and Stella and then jumping off a bridge and that's how much I am invested in this show.