Waking the Dead (TV Series) The Fall: Part 1 (2007) User Reviews

A good, strong episode, with a great cast.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 22 April 2019]

I have a huge love for this series, even years later. The imagery from this one always stuck with me, the powerful scene where the intertwined lovers fall through the ceiling. I think my memories were perhaps filling in blanks, as I'd class this as a good, rather then a great episode.

It is bound to get attention, because it of course stars Peter Capaldi, undoubtedly a superb actor, but it's the velvet voiced Stanley Townsend that grabbed my attention here, a remarkable, underrated talent, who will play a bigger part. Capaldi did share a superb scene with Sue Johnston.

Great production values, it looks good, and moves very quickly.

Even decent episodes of this terrific series are better then most shows made nowadays. 7/10

Was this laziness on the part of the writer???

[tomdillon100 · 7/10 · 24 January 2007]

I'm all for suspending my disbelief to a point but simple facts being conveniently overlooked for the sake of ease of explanation can be annoying! Boyd and Spence went to Dublin to track a suspect, and where treated in Ireland as superior officers and referred to as 'Sir'. At one point Boyd said to the chap he was after that he was a Police Officer - well not in the Republic of Ireland he isn't! Fair enough if this was Northern Ireland Ireland, but Dublin is in the Republic of Ireland and is totally independent from Britain! Boyd and Spence would have had absolutely no jurisdiction there the same way they wouldn't have in France or Spain! Was this laziness on the part of the writer as it was easier to gloss over it, or, worse still, ignorance on the part of the writer? Otherwise - excellent as usual!

One of the best episodes

[jéwé · 10/10 · 18 June 2022]

Watching all those great episodes of a brilliant series again I find this one of the best of them all, certainly where season 6 is concerned and the shows after Mel's death. The team are focused, there are the jokes, team spirit. And a very clever story. Why others think it's great and only give it 7/10 is beyond me. Capaldi is great but so is the journalist Lisa Tobin, played by Catherine Walker, an actress whe should have seen much more of. WTD is my favourite show of all time, this episode is an example why.