Here's an interview with Katie Benedetto's alter ego, a young lady fluent in 4 languages.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/q-and-a/a35710/the-fall-aisling-franciosi-interview/
Love her comment re:
Thanks, Mom & Dad...
Irish names are hard for me to pronounce, much less spell. More stuff from the actress of the
lady garden fame.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/enterta...l-season-2-sally-ann-bronagh-waugh-interview/
The first one is pronounced Ash-leen or Ashling, depending on where in the country one is or one's parents' preference. The second is pronounced Broe-nah.
Thanks Captain! 
Here's a great review in Time, encouraged the snowbound east coast to binge on "The Fall" this week.
http://time.com/3682332/the-fall-jamie-dornan-50-shades/
Here's a nice interview with Jamie on his way to filming season 2. "I'd like to stop tying women up."
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/23/the-fall-jamie-dornan-bbc2-series
Funny, I
never think of him ^^ as an underwear model.
I prefer think of him as
Sheriff Graham, AKA "the Huntsman" from "Once Upon a Time".
Another interesting review of "The Fall".
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/25/sat...ary_on_the_culture_of_violence_against_women/
I don't agree with all of the
above reviewer's assumptions, but I do agree with the idea that one of the things I like most about this show is how
inscrutable Stella Gibson appears to be.
The ^^ reviewer obviously hasn't watched the deleted scenes... (which as we all know are
not canon until they are included in the broadcast show), but in one deleted scene
Stella tells Tom Anderson that she was the same age as
Katie Benedetto when her own (Stella's) father died.
That makes me think of
Stella's statement to
Jim Burns re: her dream diary, that initially it was done for investigative reasons... but that it was not procedural. Initially I thought the "investigational reasons" were work related, but how can that be if they are not procedural? Now I think its related to
investigating the death of her father. At her (greatly advanced
) current age, I wouldn't be surprised to find out "that" death investigation has already been concluded so she no longer "has" to write down the dreams, she just does it because its a habit.
That closure may be one of the reasons why Paul
couldn't "get under her skin" when he challenged her distant relationship with her own father.
And her refusal to take the bait, to rise up and tease HIM with HIS relationship with Olivia showed the strength of her character.
The ^^ reviewer talks about how Stella cried when she watched the Rose Stagg tape... but she also cried when she watched Olivia's interrogation. Two "women" (Rose and Olivia) who will forever be changed by one deranged man.
I find it interesting (?) that whenever any of the reviewers (so far) talk about Stella's freeing philosophy re: sex, that no one questions the fact that she's basically trolling through the workplace for sexual conquests.
If Gibson was a man asking his female subordinate to transfer a good looking woman to the task force (after already confessing to that same subordinate 2 weeks ago re: a sexual liaison with another detective just hours before "she" died) we'd be rolling our eyes and decrying the power imbalance in the relationship and the fact that the women had to have sex with the task force leader to get promoted.
In fact, in some of the deleted scenes, you see the Mustachioed Detective tease his female partner how "much" Gibson obviously wants
HIM. Makes that same (McNally? ) female's discomfort when Stella woke her up to take the hair clips from her bun all the more eye opening. This discomfort was palpable even though NcNally (?) did not know at the time (we think) about Stella's fumbled encounter with the pathologist.
I wonder
if we don't hear those complaints about Gibson using the workplace as her own personal buffet because the female Superintendent is felt to have
less power than the male... or because we are so
surprised re: her actions that we
don't even wonder about that "what's good for the goose vs the gander" ethical issue.
I find it strange that its only with
Reed Smith that Stella wonders about what she's doing... when she "nearly crossed the same line" as she told Jim in season 2 episode 4.
Cross what line Stella? Get drunk and force a sexual encounter upon the "object" of her attentions like Jim tried with you that same night. In other words, to put it in
Stella's season 1 terms... "Woman
'subject' f*cks woman
'object'." Or is it as she later tells Jim in that same conversation... people have certain emotional and physical needs that only interaction with other people can satisfy... that its important to pick the
appropriate partner, and she realizes Reed wasn't appropriate for her physical needs.
Reed, in the few short weeks Stella's known her in Belfast
"isn't" simply an
object like Olsen was, a mutual agreeable sexual "one night stand". Reed was becoming her friend. Someone to drink with, to talk to, to confide in, someone to discuss the philosophy of child raising with... not someone to take to your bed one night in a
"slam bam thank you ma'am fashion" that she thought she was getting with season 1 Olsen or season 2 Anderson. Olsen had sex with 2 women in the 24 hours before his death, neither of them his wife while Reed was "brought up in Croydon" and was being swept away by Stella before she even knew what was happening.
Reed's probably thanking god
or cursing slow elevators right about now.
Remember how ticked off Stella was to receive the sexting photos from
Olsen after their encounter?
Did you also notice how
irritated Stella was with
Anderson in the 6th episode when he was questioning her decision to let Spector lead them on the wild goose chase for Rose?
SEE Stella...
that is why you
don't have sex with people
on your team. They think they have the right to question your professional judgment just because they've seen you naked!
The interesting thing to me... was that AFTER being shot down by
Reed in the hotel, after that uncomfortable "chit chat" on the road side as they suited up to visit the hanged lady crime scene... Stella couldn't stay away from Reed. She's already arranging to have Tom added to her task force, but we also see her drive to the pathologist's office to talk to Reed about something that could have just as easily been handled on the phone.
Not only that, we see Stella nap on Reed's couch while the doctor finishes her work and even wait for Reed to change before (?) what? Before the two go out for drinks, dinner? Maybe
Tom is being set up to take care of Stella's physical needs, but I suspect the Inspector has realized who the appropriate person is to help her with her
emotional ones.
Trying to
understand Detective Superintendent Gibson would make a
great 3rd season.
