The return of Luther opens with a flashback of DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) brooding on a precipice, surveying London…

The third season of Luther kicks off with a scene that any supercop thriller willing to settle for a more conventional…

Throughout the four-episode run of Luther’s second series, there have been two story arcs, one major and the other…

Much as I’ve been inclined to criticize Luther’s plot mechanics—and of course its pulpy indulgences, which are…

There’s a scene—okay, several scenes, but we’ll focus on this one—in this second episode of the second series that…

In America, many of us operate under the assumption that British culture is inherently more sophisticated than ours and…

For the first time in the series, Luther opens an episode with genuine momentum carried over from the previous one. Any…

Via Roger Ebert’s invaluable film glossary, here’s the entry on “The Law Of Economy Of Characters”: “Movie budgets make…

The new Robert De Niro-Edward Norton drama Stone opens in flashback, with De Niro’s character as a young man (played by …

Last week, after I expressed some befuddlement over the lack of department urgency in pursuing Alice—someone we (and…

Six episodes’ worth of television isn’t a lot of time to get things done. You’d figure a show that starts with a triple…

(Important note: Welcome to my coverage of the six-episode BBC series Luther. I’ll be writing about the show…