I dove into Luther in the hope to find a new series to get addicted to. One that almost demands me to binge-watch it.
It delivers partly on that note, I must admit - it's intense, the plot is not afraid to be gruesome / gory and it's fairly condensed at 6 episodes in series 1, 4 in series 2. It also has that dark noir feeling to it.
Everything else disappointed me in Luther.
The premise is so worn over by now - the detective who doesn't play by the rules but gets results so the audience roots for him. Seriously? He commits a crime almost every episode. It's just not believable.
Perhaps worse - the writing is lazy. Everytime Luther cracks a case, he reaches a conclusion based on a hunch. Which is as plausible as any one-in-a-million hunch given by other policemen. But somehow he is always right. For someone reason he is able to guess things others can't see. But the audience never knows why. After watching shows like Sherlock, this is painful. Plus the dialogues are almost cringeworthy - they end episodes by having the characters saying "what now?". I mean, they might as well have them shout "please watch the next episode". If the suspense is built properly, then you needn't force it into the dialogues.
Overall I believe it had potential as a series but I think viewers who want a gripping mistery /police show are much better off watching True Detective or even Bodyguard.
It delivers partly on that note, I must admit - it's intense, the plot is not afraid to be gruesome / gory and it's fairly condensed at 6 episodes in series 1, 4 in series 2. It also has that dark noir feeling to it.
Everything else disappointed me in Luther.
The premise is so worn over by now - the detective who doesn't play by the rules but gets results so the audience roots for him. Seriously? He commits a crime almost every episode. It's just not believable.
Perhaps worse - the writing is lazy. Everytime Luther cracks a case, he reaches a conclusion based on a hunch. Which is as plausible as any one-in-a-million hunch given by other policemen. But somehow he is always right. For someone reason he is able to guess things others can't see. But the audience never knows why. After watching shows like Sherlock, this is painful. Plus the dialogues are almost cringeworthy - they end episodes by having the characters saying "what now?". I mean, they might as well have them shout "please watch the next episode". If the suspense is built properly, then you needn't force it into the dialogues.
Overall I believe it had potential as a series but I think viewers who want a gripping mistery /police show are much better off watching True Detective or even Bodyguard.