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The fourth season of Luther stays close to the edge
The return of Luther opens with a flashback of DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) brooding on a precipice, surveying London…
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Luther: “Series 3”
The third season of Luther kicks off with a scene that any supercop thriller willing to settle for a more conventional…
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Luther: “Series Two, Episode Four”
Throughout the four-episode run of Luther’s second series, there have been two story arcs, one major and the other…
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Luther: “Series Two, Episode Three”
Much as I’ve been inclined to criticize Luther’s plot mechanics—and of course its pulpy indulgences, which are…
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Luther: “Series Two, Episode Two”
There’s a scene—okay, several scenes, but we’ll focus on this one—in this second episode of the second series that…
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Luther: "Series Two, Episode One"
In America, many of us operate under the assumption that British culture is inherently more sophisticated than ours and…
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Luther: "Episode Six"
For the first time in the series, Luther opens an episode with genuine momentum carried over from the previous one. Any…
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Luther: "Episode Five"
Via Roger Ebert’s invaluable film glossary, here’s the entry on “The Law Of Economy Of Characters”: “Movie budgets make…
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Luther: "Episode Four"
The new Robert De Niro-Edward Norton drama Stone opens in flashback, with De Niro’s character as a young man (played by …
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Luther: "Episode Three"
Last week, after I expressed some befuddlement over the lack of department urgency in pursuing Alice—someone we (and…
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Luther: "Episode Two"
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…
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Luther: "Episode One"
(Important note: Welcome to my coverage of the six-episode BBC series Luther. I’ll be writing about the show…