Sometimes streaming platform users surprise us and decide to watch a series that has been in the catalog for a long time. This is what happened with the detective series The hunt (The fall) which premiered in 2013 and has 3 seasons and 17 episodes on Netflix. An intelligent drama filmed in Northern Ireland and starring actors Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of Scotland Yard is ordered to investigate the murder of a young architect in the city of Belfast and will end up pursuing a brutal serial killer. A British series which was nominated for the Satellite Awards and BAFTAs and won Best TV Editing in 2014. The Ingredients of The hunt It’s suspense, a serial killer on the loose, plenty of crimes, and a stubborn detective determined to uncover the truth.
The thriller and mystery series The hunt was created by Allan Cubitt, directed by Jakob Verbruggen and boasts executive producers including Allan Cubitt, Patrick Irwin and Justin Thomson-Glover. This fiction was created in Ireland in May 2013 on the RTÉ One network and in the United Kingdom on the BBC Two network. In Spain, the premiere took place in February 2014 on the AXN channel. and was later included in the Netflix catalog. During these eleven years The hunt It has become one of the favorite series among users of the Netflix streaming platform and this week, surprisingly, the most watched.
What happens in the series The hunt?
Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson from Scotland Yard arrives in Belfast to investigate the murder of the wife of the son of a prominent Northern Irish politician which has been stagnating for a long time. When PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Jim Burns (John Lynch) arrives in Belfast, he warns her to be careful as the victim was the daughter-in-law of a Protestant Unionist minister in the Northern Ireland government.
At the same time, the person responsible for the architect’s murder is discovered. He is Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), a married family counselor with two young children, who leads a double life. Behind his facade of a perfect man hides a ruthless serial killer. Detective Gibson soon establishes a link between the architect’s crime and another precedent and deduces that it is a serial killer who pursues women in their thirties, with dark hair and impeccable professional career.
The detective You only have 28 days to find out what’s happening and quickly realizes that these terrible crimes are linked to the same person. With the help of pathologist Reed Smith, the detective will decide to investigate the case from all angles and will uncover a whole web of lies and secrets behind the murders that even involves family members of the victims and murderers. The detective finds himself embroiled in a sort of cat and mouse game in which both have a lot to lose.
The cast of this detective series
The well-known actress Gillian Anderson plays the role of Stella Gibsona Scotland Yard detective. We have seen this actress in roles such as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, socialite Lily Bart in the film The House of Mirth, sexologist Jean Milburn in Sex Education and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth film. season of The Crown. The actress has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Critics Choice Award.
The actor Jamie Dornan stars as Paul Spectorthe suspected serial killer who leads a double life. Also in the cast are actress Bronagh Waugh as Sally-Ann Spector, a neonatal nurse and wife of Paul Spector, Laura Donnelly as Sarah Kay, a young lawyer, Niamh McGrady as Danielle Ferrington, a police officer, John Lynch as Jim Burns, the Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI and Archie Panjabi as Tanya Reed Smith, a pathologist assigned to investigate the case.
Additionally, the cast of this detective series includes the actors Ben Peel as James Olson, Sgt.Michael McElhatton as Rob Breedlove, Detective Inspector and Olson’s partner, and Sarah and David Beattie as the couple’s children.
The hunt is a chilling thriller which this week became the favorite series of users of the Netflix streaming platform and which you can’t miss. In addition to this series on Netflix, you can watch thrillers like The Killing, Mindhunter, Collateral, Inside the Forest either The sinneramong others.
