Friday, May 2, 2014

Film Review #32: Luther (TV show)

Hey, you remember The Wire?  You remember that total badass Stringer Bell, like a slick James-Bond-modern-Ganster-Sylvester-Stalone-Corleone deathmachine of raw awesome?  Well, he's back.  Kinda.

Stringer returns as the ingenious, loose-cannon, on-the-edge modern British investigator John Luther.  His marriage is in shambles, he let a man literally fall into a coma (death, he had somewhat hoped at the time), he has a loose psycho-killer stalking him and his associates... His life is complicated.

So.  That's awesome.  But what about the show?

Well, for starters, I'm something like 2 episodes in, and there's not even ONE of the protagonists whom I hate.  Like, holy shit.  You DON'T KNOW how much of an issue that is!  I mean, unless you watch American TV.  Which, depressingly enough, I succumb to on occasion.
You see, Luther is BBC.  Thus, it is simply better.

Each episode seems to be based around a different investigation, though it shares overarching characters/metaplots; this could play well or badly.  We shall see.

Anyway.  From what I can tell, I can easily recommend this show; IT"S ON NETFLIX! YAAAAAAY-

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