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Luther

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Generally favorable reviews based on 60 Critic Reviews

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Universal acclaim based on 46 Ratings

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Series Details & Credits

BBC-1 | BBC | BBC America | BBC One | Release Date: May 4, 2010

Summary: Detective Chief Inspector John Luther (Idris Elba) returns to work after being suspended in another case, but soon finds his personal and professional lives becoming precarious yet again.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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S5:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: January 4, 2019
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Air Date: January 3, 2019
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Air Date: January 2, 2019

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75

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49

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Critic Reviews

100

RedEye

Curt Wagner

Aug 28, 2013

Season 3 Review: It gets darker, scarier and more captivating with each episode as Luther matches wits with killers and cops alike. Read full review

83

The A.V. Club

Emily L. Stephens

Dec 14, 2015

Season 4 Review: The season-four miniseries never exceeds the brazen hilarity of previous seasons, but it continues apace, and for a show so full of intense action, keen performances, and self-aware humor, that’s plenty. Read full review

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The Huffington Post

Maureen Ryan

Season 1 Review: Luther, the story of an impulsive, very intelligent London cop, manages to be an excellent showcase for Idris Elba (The Wire) and an increasingly impressive character drama that goes to some dark and absorbing places. Read full review

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The New York Times

Mike Hale

Jun 3, 2019

Season 5 Review: This season, the fifth, is a typically tidy four episodes — short arcs being advisable when you routinely suspend all the laws of logic, psychology and police procedure. Neil Cross, who created the show and still writes it, has a gift for packaging the lurid and the preposterous into hypnotizing psychodrama that moves fast enough to keep you from thinking too hard. Read full review

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Hitfix

Alan Sepinwall

Season 1 Review: So long as Elba's on the screen, I'm interested, and even more when he and Wilson are sharing it. But ultimately, Luther turned out to be more average than I thought at first, regardless of its country of origin. Read full review

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Variety

Brian Lowry

Dec 15, 2015

Season 4 Review: Yet if the fourth installment, presented by BBC America as one long movie, has a certain rote quality to it--especially after the title character’s break from the grind last time out--there’s still fun to be had in watching Elba occupy this role. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Steven Scaife

Jun 4, 2019

Season 5 Review: The show’s concept has long revolved around how everything Luther has been through has left him haunted, but now, in the fifth season, it does little more for viewers than leave them numb. Read full review

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TellGoodStories

Nov 21, 2021

Absolutely awesome tv series. Great acting, great actors, great plots, great cinematography. The British format drives me nuts sometimes - only releasing a few episodes every year or two. That said, this is still really awesome.

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Mahed_Tavassoli

Apr 25, 2022

DCI John Luther.
starting was good enough to watch all and now after finishing season5 I don't regret it.
Casting of course is its best part, Idris Elba And Ruth Wilson were awesome although i expected much much better characteristics. the music was good. the only part that make me sad wasDCI John Luther.
starting was good enough to watch all and now after finishing season5 I don't regret it.
Casting of course is its best part, Idris Elba And Ruth Wilson were awesome although i expected much much better characteristics. the music was good.
the only part that make me sad was the way series show the relationship between characters and disappearing some all of a sudden.
If i have to describe it, then i will say just the word 'good' for it. nothing more.
oh i almost forget to mention how much ruth wilson was cute;lovely and attractive . i fund of her.
i liked season 2 the most and after that season 5.… Expand

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MeritCoba

Sep 5, 2020

Episode 1. Season 1. A brilliant crazy person kills her parents. Luther has to figure how to proof it, lacking any clear evidence. There is a lot of x waving(yes, even for a woman) as the two openly bicker. Luther stating he is on to her and she stating he has nothing on her. So it isEpisode 1. Season 1. A brilliant crazy person kills her parents. Luther has to figure how to proof it, lacking any clear evidence. There is a lot of x waving(yes, even for a woman) as the two openly bicker. Luther stating he is on to her and she stating he has nothing on her. So it is Sherlock against Moriarty.. oh wait, that is another series where a brilliant crazy person takes on a equally brilliant detective over crimes that are unusual. In the mean time Luther struggles with something that happened in his past(he caused an accident to a perpetrator, who is now in a coma and can return at any time)/ And his relation with his wife is going down hill fast as she is fed up with him spending more time with his cases then with her. Sounds good, right? Not for me really. That tensions exist between spouses would not surprise me, but there is nothing subtle about it in this series. This is in your face drama and considering this is the first episode it will be a persistent part of that series. Half the time will be filled with this stuff. Drama and policing come together when the crazy person decides she is going to pester Luther by terrorizing his wife.
She just does some google searches to figure out everything about Luther and his wife and then hangs out the building where Luther's wife is working so she can then grab her from behind when she comes out to have a smoke.

Let me think about this for a moment.

She has been hanging out in the corner of a building for how long so just in the hope that Luther's wife will go out for a smoke alone so she can then ambush her? Nobody found it strange that this person was standing there for like how many hours? How convenient.

There is like a zillion things wrong with all of this.
It is the way Luther is made out to be brilliant in almost the same way as Sherlock Holmes.
She didn't yawn, so she has no empathy, hence she is a narcissist.
Oh and your wife breaking up with you comes totally out of the blue. That is just not how relations work.
And of course, a brilliant detective must have a brilliant opponent. Oh wait, scratch brilliant. It is just people who the plot favors with getting wild guesses right and giving people superpowers so that the story doesn't bog down in it's own contrivances. I stopped watching.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 5

64
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: June 2, 2019
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  S5:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: January 4, 2019
- tbd
  S5:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: January 3, 2019
- tbd
  S5:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: January 2, 2019
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  S5:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: January 1, 2019
Season 4

68
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: December 17, 2015
Season 3

76
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: July 2, 2013
Season 2

78
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: June 14, 2011
Season 1

83
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 4, 2010