What is it?
Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, and Season 5 of the British crime drama mystery television show Luther.
What is it about?
This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes each season of this television show:
Idris Elba, known for playing drug dealer Stringer Bell on “The Wire,” explores life on the other side of the law in this psychological crime drama from acclaimed crime writer Neil Cross (“MI-5”).
Elba portrays John Luther, a brilliant but tortured homicide detective who gets caught up in the psychological cat-and-mouse game between detective and criminal.
Co-stars include Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan, Warren Brown as DS Justin Ripley, Steven Mackintosh as DCI Ian Reed and Saskia Reevesas DSU Rose Teller.
Idris Elba, known for playing drug dealer Stringer Bell on “The Wire,” is back in the second season of “Luther” as he explores life on the other side of the law in this psychological crime drama from acclaimed crime writer Neil Cross (“MI-5”).
Elba portrays John Luther, a brilliant but tortured homicide detective who gets caught up in the psychological cat-and-mouse game between detective and criminal.
Season 2 cases include a masked serial murderer on the run and a killer who chooses his victims by rolling dice.
Idris Elba, known for playing drug dealer Stringer Bell on “The Wire,” is back in the third season of “Luther” as he explores life on the other side of the law in this psychological crime drama from acclaimed crime writer Neil Cross (“MI-5”).
Elba portrays John Luther, a brilliant but tortured homicide detective who gets caught up in the psychological cat-and-mouse game between detective and criminal.
The third season includes DCI Erin Gray (Nikki Amuka-Bird)as she adjusts to her recent promotion and an ex-cop comes out of retirement questioning Luther’s past.
Cast members joining the third season include David O’Hara as DSU George Stark and Sienna Guillory as Luther’s new love interest, Mary Day.
On a leave of absence from the police force, Luther is laying low in a rundown cottage on the edge of England.
But a visit from his old colleagues at the Met brings a shocking piece of news that draws him back to London in search of the truth.
Meanwhile, a gruesome serial killer has struck the city, eating body parts as he goes.
Idris Elba, known for playing drug dealer Stringer Bell on The Wire, is back in the fifth series of Luther as he explores life on the other side of the law in this psychological crime drama from acclaimed crime writer Neil Cross.
Season 4 Interviews
Final Thoughts
Of all people I found out about this television show from Grace Randolph, she mentioned it in an off-remark and she recommended it in one of her videos several years ago, and so I watched a trailer for it and it looked interesting; and it was cool to see Idris Elba as a main character so I decided to watch episode one of season 1 one day several years ago.
To my surprise I liked it and I kept watching it until I got caught up with the series, at that time season 3 had already aired, and I had to wait until season 4 aired to see it and now I just finished season 5 a week ago maybe.
I wish that I would have known about this show back when it first came out, and I wish that more people knew about it because I do not think that many people have seen this show and I can not even find a review of the 5th season on YouTube yet; and no one I follow even mentioned this season or even the last one, and so I found out about season 5 by accident.
Season 1 is without a doubt my favorite season of the series so far, Alice Morgan was a standout character for me and Ruth Wilson did a great job making her my favorite character in most of the series and one of my favorite female villains / neutral characters in recent memory, and the back and forth between Alice Morgan and John Luther was great to watch and I wished that they could have had more screen time together.
In seasons 2 and 3 I wish that Alice Morgan would have had a larger role.
The way that season 4 handled Alice Morgan, angered and annoyed me, and this is the worst season so far and I hated it; and so I retconned it basically pretending that it does not really exist.
Season 5 was better than season 4, I did not like a certain character in this season as much as I used to, and this season shocked me with a certain chain of events that shocked me and confused me and shook me and that left me thinking; and it impacted me as I realized that maybe all along we have been wrong about certain characters and were missing what was right in front of us.
Season 5 made me realize that all along there was a message somewhat hidden in plain sight that many of us viewers ignored or did not want to believe or were tricked into believing or explained away et cetera, a lesson that needed to be learned, and it did hurt and it was a risky move on their part; I have problems with it of course, but if you think about it, then it is a bit brilliant in a way.
Idris Elba was consistent in his performances as John Luther throughout these five seasons, in season 5 you possibly learned something about his character Luther, and maybe a certain character was correct about him all along; and maybe one of his own statements proved to be correct.
Each season is only a few episodes so it should not take that long to watch this television show, I definitely recommend at least watching the first season, and season 4 can be skipped mostly.
The end,
-John Jr
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