Thursday 6 May 2010

LUTHER 1.1

Thursday 6 May 2010
Over at Obsessed With Film, my review of BBC1's new detective drama LUTHER, starring The Wire's Idris Elba.

"Unquestionably, Luther has nothing new to offer its overworked genre as a detective series featuring a "maverick" who's "battling personal demons" and is considered a "wild card" by his colleagues. We've seen it before, and we've seen it done better. But for all that, there was a screwy conviction to some of its performances and enough peculiar creative decisions that made the hour slip by rather smoothly." Continue reading...