There's a scene in the second season of BBC's The Fall, now
available on Netflix, in which Jamie Dornan's serial-killer character,
Paul Spector, pins a young woman to a bed and binds her hands with a
tie. It's easy to shout the obvious in that moment: "He's basically
Christian Grey!" But the show, while drawing superficial and absurdly
well-timed comparisons to Fifty Shades of Grey, is
fundamentally different from the E.L. James franchise: It doesn't
feature an Anastasia Steele. Paul's victims are professional women in
their 30s; his wife is an emotionally strong neonatal nurse; and the
woman hunting him, officer Stella Gibson, is independent, laser smart,
and the opposite of a submissive virgin. She's also played by a veteran
of the Strong Women on TV club, Gillian Anderson (The X-Files). Cosmopolitan.com spoke to Anderson about The Fall's depiction of male violence, daddy issues in sexually liberated women, and finally shooting a scene with Dornan.
Link: Cosmopolitan