A new season begins with much more challenges and adventures that follow the daily activity and struggle of a young courageous and intelligent detective, who is well known for his courageous and ability to solve mysteries, as he takes on the mission of arresting a serial killer. Dr. Larson struggles against helping Spector recover from amnesia.
As good as Anderson is throughout, her Stella suffers from a Season 3 lack of development -- we learn nothing about her in this new season that we did not know from the previous two.
Mr. Cubitt's unconventional methods mix standard police thriller elements of detection and chase with long, quiet scenes of conversation, interrogation and surveillance.
Its hallmark traits of knife-edge tension, sexual discussion and psychologically-charged scenes have been posted missing, and replaced with an hour of medical procedures and jargon that would bore the most ardent of E.R. fans.
When it's firing on all cylinders, though, the third season of The Fall is an unusually meditative, self-possessed piece of television, one that actually earns the "psychological thriller" title.