Luther: Season 5

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BBC-1 | BBC | BBC America | BBC One | Season Premiere Date: June 2, 2019

Summary: Luther and new partner D.S. Catherine Halliday (Wunmi Mosaku) investigate a potential serial killer as two people from his past reappear.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Season 5 Episodes

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S5:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: January 4, 2019
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S5:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: January 3, 2019
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S5:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: January 2, 2019

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The Times Carol Midgley

Jan 7, 2020

Luther can sometimes feel like a race towards ever more warped violence. And it can get very, very silly. But rejoice! ... Luther is always electrifying when Alice is around. If it took Wilson leaving The Affair to come back, then I'm all for it. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jun 3, 2019

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

Melanie McFarland

Jun 3, 2019

This new season maintains a consistent tension throughout its run and even when the creeps are familiar, series creator Neil Cross frosts them with a layer of sinister that feels impossible to duplicate or, if not that, at least would be tough to attempt. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

May 23, 2019

Alice's vendetta against an equally lethal gangster keeps distracting poor Luther from a lurid case involving a fetishistic serial killer. It's all a bit much, but if it weren't, it wouldn't be Luther. [27 May - 9 Jun 2019, p.12]

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Dec 4, 2019

It allows the mind to roam across many questions while the story unspools efficiently before you, asking little in the way of mental or emotional investment and giving much in the way of solidly old-fashioned whodunnitry. Pairs well with apple crumble and custard or large slabs of Dairy Milk. Read full review

Mark A. Perigard

Jun 3, 2019

Unfortunately, it’s the law of diminishing returns. Read full review

Steven Scaife

Jun 4, 2019

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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SimboTheKing

May 10, 2023

Yeah at this point Luther is getting a bit stale and I hope the film is either a) completely refreshing or b) if it continues the same tone the last Luther media we see. It's a one trick pony really and, whilst that trick is very good, it ultimately is not enough to carry a show for 5Yeah at this point Luther is getting a bit stale and I hope the film is either a) completely refreshing or b) if it continues the same tone the last Luther media we see. It's a one trick pony really and, whilst that trick is very good, it ultimately is not enough to carry a show for 5 seasons. The issues that I may have overlooked in previous seasons as the show was just so stylish and new are now really distracting - the entire police department in Luther are so useless it's a wonder how anyone keeps their jobs (although reading met reports irl maybe there's more truth than fiction in this haha) and the killers are so one-note and underdeveloped it's crazy. It's a show full of contrivances and stretched logic.

Of course Idris and Ruth are stellar as always but I get the sense that even they are a bit bored of their characters now. So long, farewell Luther - you were good when you were good but the last couple of seasons have been very very meh.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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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
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  S5:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: January 3, 2019
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  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