The Fall may yet return for Season 4, but the upcoming third season will bring the Paul Spector arc to what series creator Allan Cubitt hopes will be a ‘satisfying’ climax:
How does series three differ from previous series?
Hopefully it represents an organic development, just as series two was a development from series one. It’s a real privilege to be able to explore one story across three seasons. I always wanted The Fall to have a forensic quality and hopefully the story goes deeper and deeper in its exploration of the central characters – and some of the subsidiary characters too – and its main themes and preoccupations.What challenges will Gibson face in this series?
Gibson’s challenges remain the same: they just become, I hope, deeper and more existential as the drama unfolds. I always wanted The Fall to have a mythic quality if possible. We glimpsed Gibson in her ordinary world at the start of episode one, series one. She’s at home in sweat pants, a vest and a facemask, frantically cleaning up and packing before leaving for Belfast. In that sense the call to adventure has preceded the opening of the show.When we see her arrive in Belfast, presenting ‘a face to meet the faces that you meet’ she is crossing the threshold, leaving the ordinary world and entering a new region or condition with unfamiliar rules and values where she will be tested. She is there to do a 28-day review of a single murder that remains unsolved, no suspects. She makes the connection between that murder and others and pushes Burns into putting her in charge of the inquiry. At that point her ordeal begins!
The dramatic question from that point onwards has always been will she succeed, will she survive – does she have the power to transform the situation? Can she, and the drama, reunite with the feminine, can the healing begin?
Did you have in mind how the story would end from when you first started writing The Fall?
I always knew how it would end but there have been all sorts of discoveries along the way. The characters are very vivid to me and often seem to dictate the direction of the story, even the horrifying developments. What will be will be.What can audiences expect from The Fall series three?
I hope that fans of the show will feel satisfied by the way the story develops, by the journeys the central characters go on. And maybe those people who are sceptical and have reservations will be won round – you can but hope! You do the best you can and then you put it out there. People will make of it what they will.
Source: BBC
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