“…Intellectually, as a feminist scholar, I can identify the elements of The Fall that enable a feminist reading of it, and my intention here is not at all to reproach viewers who have enjoyed the series partly for having interpreted it this way as being ‘bad feminists’ (Gay, 2014), or to suggest they have ‘misunderstood’ it. It is the disingenuous nature of the ‘double-entanglement’ (McRobbie, 2007: 255) of postfeminism, after all, that facilitates such simultaneous and conflictual responses to the feminist claims of popular culture, and numerous previous theorists have adroitly traced the complex push-pull appeal of the female investigator to/within feminism (see Mizejewski, 2004; Steenberg, 2011, 2013). Nevertheless, as a woman tired of negotiating endless media violence against women, I do not feel at all convinced by claims to the series’ feminism.…”