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...
