Although this episode ostensibly concerns the hunt for Twitter-savvy, scumbag-executing vigilante Callum Marwood, it’s also about the enduring bond between DCI Luther (Idris Elba) and DS Ripley (Warren Brown).
Idris Elba returns to BBC One as John Luther next week as the new series of crime drama Luther continues.
It’s manna from heaven for fans of John Luther’s coat in this episode (surely the greatest villain we’ve yet to meet in the show is a killer with a fetish for grey tweed outerwear) as a search of his house by anti-corruption cops Stark and Gray reveals not just one but a whole rack of them.
Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity)and Julie Graham (Survivors) have joined the cast of BBC One’s murder-mystery drama Shetland for the second series.
The BBC has released a video interview with Luther star Warren Brown, who plays DCI Justin Ripley, on the set of the crime drama’s new series.
The UK’s recent hankering for a down-to-earth but idiosyncratic television detective is rooted deeply in our love for Scandinavian mystery dramas, or ‘Nordic noir’ as it is now dubbed. Some of these sleuths have been on our tellies far longer than others but each are all quintessentially British from the tea-sipping Miss Marple to the heavily patriotic Christopher Foyle.
Idris Elba returns to BBC One as John Luther next week as the new series of crime drama Luther continues.
The BBC has released a trailer for the next episode of Luther‘s third series.
Luther polarises opinion like a Marmite commercial starring Russell Brand. To some, it’s the only home-grown series that can hold its own against European crime heavyweights like Spiral and The Killing. To others, it’s a car crash of cop clichés; only the herculean efforts of Idris Elba in the title role holding together a show which looks stylishly gritty on the surface but lacks substance where it counts – all woolly grey overcoat and no Kickers.
Idris Elba returns to BBC One as John Luther next week in the new series of of crime drama Luther, written by Neil Cross.