The Fall

[asra]

Still on episode 3 but had to pause and appreciate this:

Let’s not refer to them [the killer's victims] as innocent. […] What if he kills a prostitute, next? Or a woman walking home drunk, late at night, in a short skirt? Will they be, in some way, less innocent, therefore less deserving? Culpable? The media loves to divide women into virgins and vamps. Angels or whores. Let’s not encourage them.

Also this:

"Man fucks woman." Subject: man. Verb: fucks. Object: woman. That’s OK. "Woman fucks man." Woman: subject. Man: object. That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?

In conclusion: Stella Gibson. ♥

P.S. I forgot John Lynch was Balinor, and had to IMDb him to figure out where I'd seen him before. *facepalm*

Comments

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

It's definitely very watchable - I couldn't wait to see what happened next. I was actually thinking about the question of misogyny while watching it. I often wonder if the portrayal of violence against women is itself misogynistic, regardless of whether the text condemns the crime. Not that the show ever downplays the horror of what the killer does, but you're still left with all these terrible images.

Having said that, one of the things that make me uncomfortable about the genre of crime fiction in general is that the focus is almost always on solving the crime, and sometimes on how much the detective relishes the process, with very little regard for the victim. That's definitely not the case here; the families' grief, and the way Stella and her colleagues react to having to examine the crime scenes and the victims' bodies, is something I appreciated.