Wednesday 15 June 2011

Luther



It’s marketed as the Idris Elba show but oh, how we cry for Stringer Bell.  Despite sharing a name with the founder of the Protestant church and a civil rights activist, this Luther isn’t all that interesting.  It’s your average show about a maverick (yes, ‘fraid so) cop, but the creatives dropped a couple of tabs while doing their stuff and the result is lurid, uneven and set in an alternative universe unrecognisable to anyone sane and sober.  The leads are charismatic, some scenes well done, but that this got a second series while ‘Zen’ got bumped can only be explained by the expensive location shoots for the latter.


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