Luther

[jumpinjackflash]

if there's one justification for the BBC's licence fee it's Luther! His character is like Jack Bauer in the sense they're both work obsessed, widowed, troubled, angry and hard..'cept Luther works for the Met, lives in South London and drives a crappier car!

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[mockney piers]

I'm quite enjoying this, it's a bit better than the previous series. Thank gawd no Saskia Reeves* this time.

Enjoyable tosh, just like Spooks, which it's not surprising to learn is done by the same folks.

*I'm actually quite partial to our Saskia, but she was just awful in Luther.

[steveo]

It's all about Alice

[Otta]

How many episodes have been on?

[bonniebird]

Havent seen lasts nights yet, but jumped out of my skin at the end of episode 1!

[Ridgley]

Very good it nice to see a black actor heading it up does not happen often here.

[Jah Lush]

Two out of four so far Otto.

Anyway.....Some of the writing's a bit, well you know.. improbable. How come Luther can just stare at crime scene photographs and deduce that the killer's work is all about silence and emptiness? Hmmm? Well, is he clairvoyant or an I missing something?

Also, having a six inch nail hammered through his hand how come he didn't rush off to the nearest hospital without bleeding half to death and then in the next scene he's wearing a bandage on it?

Still, it's enjoyable enough and the ladies have got a bit of eye candy to watch on an otherwise dull Tuesday night.

[mockney piers]

Plot holes, improbable insights, inexplicable story progression, paper thin characters, bizarre motives, ludicrous plot devices. Yep it's Spoother.

Great fun though.

*uncovers sheet over barrles* "There's enough spopholdahyde to dissolve three thousand children, he was shipping them to India, they'd have dissappeared without a trace"

*characters look at each other questioningly, shrug and down a quart of moonshine*

"Makes sense to me boss"

[Loz]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Some of the writing's a bit, well you

> know.. improbable.

So a lot like 24 then. Suspension of disbelief was a major ingredient in enjoy Jack Bauer's escapades.

[Jah Lush]

I've never watched 24 so I cannot venture an opinion on its viewing worthiness.

[titch juicy]

not seen any of series 2, but had to stop watching after a couple of episodes of series one, because it was so bad

[RosieH]

What was that Janet Jackson / Luther Vandross song where they "improvise" a bit towards the end and she says, "Oooh, Luther"? Spot on Janet, Idris Elba is delicious.

And I think I've said this before on here somewhere (in many respects, this place is like the morning room in an old people's home, all telling each other the same stories over and over and occasionally soiling ourselves), but Cracker was just as improbable in his powers of deduction: what's that, he used the possessive with the gerund but has the hands of a labourer? He must be a monk. I blame Conan Doyle.

[northlondoner]

Luther must surely be the most ambitious home grown thriller on TV. Yes full of faults and improbabilities but still head and shoulders above the others. Can convey real darkness and the protagonist is a powerful figure. Series two better than the first, so far

[steveo]

How many psycho killers can you fit in one cop show? Last night's Luther had more nuts than a squirrel

[Jah Lush]

And identical psycho twins by the look of things.

[LadyDeliah]

Fingers in ears, I'm not listening!

He's fantastic and I love Luther!

[Strawbs]

I am completely in love with this show and am gutted next week is the last one...

[Jah Lush]

I think we've been short-changed. Only four episodes and two story lines for this current "series".

[StraferJack]

Thats because he is up to his Elba in work for the foreseeable

I wanted to like it but ended up screaming at the telly during both series

[Townleygreen]

Strawbs:

I am completely in love with this show and am gutted next week is the last one...

I 100% agree with you, it is just a tragedy

The man is great

awesome

OMG