Is LUTHER -- starring Idris Elba as a hard-nosed cop who plays by his own rules -- to be anticipated?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007dgzb

Hmmmmmmm, don't know, but Ruth Wilson though...

looks terrible imo

ah crap missed it

u didn't miss anything; was woeful

rather see this http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2877332736/tt0309820

remade with idris elba

amiable was i ere i saw elba im a say, idris did his best but the script etc was crap

hardly ever watch british tv like this and was reminded why

Only to be anticipated if Dominic West plays a business saavy lothario of an inner city drug dealer that he is after.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jun/01/luther-have-you-been-watching

hmmmmm

I do find it very amusing to watch, but last night's episode did end very strongly. Shame it hadn't kicked up a notch much earlier in the series.

Dammit, I've got a Luther-fan-dross pun right here if someone could give it some OTT praise it in a really badly-written way.

Luther or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Become a Killer (plus probably fuck a pyscho)

Idris Elba is still very good though

And he can punch doors/filing cabinets/throw stuff at windows like nobody

yeah he showed that door whos boss in the first one. whole thing came off a bit like johnston off peep show joined the met

I've been really enjoying it.

this show turned out to be better than i thought it would be (e.g., the first episode was kinda seen-it-all-before lol britishes do silence of the lambs). though i've always thought that silence of the lambs is grossly overrated, this could turn out to be even better 2nd season.

The show started off as a British and slightly higher concept Criminal Minds, with all of the silliness and bad psychology/science/law that that implies, but it definitely got more compelling as it went along, and by the end of the season it became one of my favorite things on television. But I'm a sucker for Idris Elba, Ruth Wilson, and Paul McGann, and the hole their characters dug for themselves by the end of the season made for a fantastic cliffhanger and really set it apart from the from all the other detective dramas. The last scene in the finale was just perfect, really.

I don't know how it will fare in these two two-hour movies, though. It might improve the storytelling and help them get away from the procedural format and concentrate on the more dramatic turns that made the last few episode of the first series so great, or it might just amplify all the holes and implausibilities in the writing.

have watched the first 3 episodes now, not really grabbing me. i think the obnoxious score makes it feel cheesier than it actually is, though.

It wasn't until the last episode that I felt it had found its feet. Anticipating the second series to see if they can keep the standard of the last episode.

Alice Morgan is so entertaining - bless her Joker smile. I love her fucked up relationship with Luther.

some dude, as others have suggested, it only gets better after the 3rd episode. Don't give up.

the strange pacing of the series made me wonder if it had been commissioned for a longer run then someone got cold feet and they had to chop half the episodes

yeah there's only like 3 more episodes right? i will definitely finish it, just not super engaged w/ it, hoping it will pick up.

glad to hear it gets better -- haven't been nuts about the first couple episodes, even though it's well done. everything is pretty good -- acting, overall style, etc. but the mysteries themselves seem pretty half baked.

Returning on June 14th!

Esta noche.

I found this fairly entertaining

This season is fantastic so far.

this show is so frustrating, great cast, great photography, good atmosphere, and the writings just not there

what about "the shadow line"

i'm really enjoying luther. don't believe it for a second when i stop and think, but while watching i'm completely hooked

I don't think it's meant to be believable though, in the same way Batman's not meant to be particularly plausible. It's like a comic book turned TV series, basically.

The Shadow Line was good, but not as engaging as Luther for me. Love the art direction on that.

I think part of why I didn't connect much with TSL is the characters weren't as vividly drawn as on Luther. I mean, there's nothing I don't find fascinating about Alice Morgan's crazy ass. Haha.

I really like The Shadow Line!

this show is so frustrating, great cast, great photography, good atmosphere, and the writings just not there

Pretty much sums up British television drama imo. And that's the best stuff!

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc63q0zrqy1qc7mlko1_500.gif

Loves Idris in The Wire and wanted to like this, but the dialogue in this is so bad, it's almost unactable.

So S2 was awesome.

Yes, it definitely felt it had found its groove. A shame there were only 4 episodes though, and presumably Ruth Wilson's diary was full.

a lady psycho nemesis? ehhhh

everybody's hair looks like shit! i kinda like that

lady psycho nemesis is like mega hot btw

sideways quotes of johnny rotten AND faulkner in one episode

lol this kinda fell apart with too much thought but i enjoyed it greatly

psycho gamer twins? yeah ok. still, those set pieces of him going ape were really chilling.

You basically have to reat it like a superhero comic but where nobody has costumes or powers, like a dressed-down Nolan Batman movie

hmm...great comparison tbh

Watching this, it's like a pulpier version of a US cop drama

Definite Dick Tracy vibe, I found

wow at this.

missed the first series, caught the second almost by accident and it was dark enough to make me deliberately watch the third.

the scene just before the opening credits, simple but terrifying.

I watched this, they really seem to be going for it on the horror and gore angle. Fun but deeply ridiculous.

I gave up on this during season 1, I got that wrong then, eh? Do I need backstory or can I leap right in on this cold?

I liked Season 1 better than Season 2, but overall I'm pretty into it. Writing can be a bit shit though, I agree with upthread comments

FYI from now on you will refer to me as DS VEGGRRL

Right, it's back on.

I really like this, for similar photography/nolan/dick tracy reasons other have said.

Fucking hell

Smokey?

Blender

Anyone seen the new one yet?

Idris Elba is a shite actor and this is badly written bog-standard beeb shite is all I can say

have you seen the new one yet though?

yes I saw it and it was like watching CSI grange hill

Watched all these and the new one - I think I like it but it def isn't a serious psychological drama about crime

I watched all of Murder in Suburbia so my crime drama standards clearly are not high

This is kind of like a British Dick Tracy?

everyone is so troubled, and Luther is the cop for these troubled times

Some of the villains are a bit topical

Elba really is bad though. The media are talking him up as the next Bond, for whatever reason is in their heads, and I don't think that any Bond has been a "good actor", other than the current one, but Elba is far too interested in himself, and how sexy he allegedly is, to be good. Lots of actors are like that though, I guess.

Is that coming for interviews or what

*from

I like him

He def fancies himself and a lot of the show revolves around how cool Luther is, but I sort of like that

He's great idk what the problem is

Lucked into one good role. Been living off it ever since

i still don't know wtf was up with accent in Prometheus

is the crazy lady still on it

from the first ep I gather she is dead, but then there is a hint that she might not be dead. i never get past the first ep of this series, like most stuff on the beeb

wait, is there a new series of this?

a single 2-parter. as far as i know pt 1 has been on in the uk, and the whole thing was shown in one go in the US?

CSI grange hill

this is killing me lolololol

i think he overacts in luther but i also think he'd be the best bond since connery

RIP

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci6Tj4GUYAAIkyf.jpg

shh I'm trying to ignore this

;_;

rip big man

the artist formerly known as DJ Big Driis never formerly known for the refinement of his musical taste

So attempted to watch HARD SUN by the same writer, Neil Cross, and it seriously has me wondering if Luther was as stupid and I didn't notice because I was charmed by Elba. It does not help that the two leads, the man especially, are pretty awful actors.

Trying to answer that I went back up this thread to see if I'd liked it, and found this:

Right, it's back on.

I really like this, for similar photography/nolan/dick tracy reasons other have said.

― cardamon, Thursday, July 4, 2013 3:14 AM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fucking hell

― cardamon, Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:13 AM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Smokey?

― cardamon, Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:13 AM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Blender

― cardamon, Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:16 AM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looks terrible imo

― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:59 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me in 2010: otm

Some people call Idris Elba "charismatic". I just call him quite fucking useless as an actor tbh. And the early notices on his director debut adaptation of Victor Headley's Yardie are saying it stinks like a murdered dog on a midsummer's afternoon. His stock has dropped through the fucking pavement since everyone was creaming themselves over The Wire. The BBC drama dept don't even count, no comment.

Agyness is ok in Hard Sun but, yep, it’s awful. It also seems to take a perverse pleasure in Deyn getting the stuffing kicked out of her - which happens at least once in the first four episodes, usually at length.

has me wondering if Luther was as stupid and I didn't notice because I was charmed by Elba.

It's super stupid, if enjoyable.

Started watching this, just finished season 2. The most baffling thing to me, about 10 minutes into every episode, Luther – with nothing to go on – just guesses an extremely unlikely scenario and guesses it correctly.

DC: "They were murdered in broad daylight. What do you think this is? A lone gunmen?"
Luther, looking at some photos that reveal absolutely nothing: "Nah. It's two brothers. Not just brothers, identical twins too. Playing a game. A kill means racking up points. These random letters in this notepad must be a password. In a book. But not a second hand book because you could lose it and not find the same edition of the book again. No, it must be a new book. Look for that and crack the code guys, I'm off for a cuppa."

It's super stupid, if enjoyable.

Yes to this though.

look luther's just a good copper who plays by his own rules and he gets results dammit

From memory that inspiration about the killer gamer brothers made more sense to those of us in the viewing audience with sad D&D-playing adolesences, not that I am talking about myself.

Between that and the post-punk enthusiasm, Luther must have been the whitest black boy growing up in 1980s Britain.

I'm at the end of the 3rd season (I was getting a little desperate for something interesting to watch here). At first it strongly reminded me of a British version of Dexter.

It's like a comic book turned TV series, basically.

- We make bouquets that fade immediately. (Turangalila)

Right, Luther doesn't quite have Dexter-level superpowers but he's close. Like with Dexter, the panoramic setting shots are a big draw for me.

One thing that struck me early on with Luther is how the characters who are portrayed as clueless because they do it "by the book" are all women. I do like the Alice Morgan character. They have toned down a little bit of the Dirty Harry moral code too. The vigilante story line was my favorite so far, I wonder if they had a re-think about exactly what they were promoting early on.

Just watched the first three seasons of this (cos cheapo DVDs).

Somebody upthread called the score obnoxious (maybe referencing the second season.) The first season might have been (bowed guitar stuff?) but I was actually struck a couple of times during the second and third by some surprisingly beautiful cues like when they're approaching the van with children in it in S2 E2. Can't imagine calling that obnoxious.

What the hell was going on with Andy Serkis’s hair?

Sounds like a case for Luther

This film is one of the worst things I’ve watched in years

This film is one of the worst things I’ve watched in years

It really was complete fucking trash. And boring.

The plot, action, and profiling def felt perfunctory, though appreciated the Schenk actor to offset Luther glowering.

yall getting my excited to hate-watch this

Best bit was honestly the Ghostpoet cover of the Massive Attack/title theme.