Tv Drama

Luther

Crime drama series starring Idris Elba as Luther, he is a thorough detective whose brilliant mind can't always save him from the violence of his passions.

Genre: Psychological crime drama

 Created by: Neil Cross

Starring:

Idris Elba

 Ruth Wilson

 Dermot Crowley

 Michael Smiley

 Warren Brown

 Steven Mackintosh

 Indira Varma

 Saskia Reeves

 Paul McGann

 Nikki Amuka-Bird

 Aimee-Ffion Edwards

 David O'Hara

 Sienna Guillory

Played on BBC One

The first episode starts, with a frantic chase through a disused warehouse, with a sweating, panicking man stumbling from floor to floor, with Luther menacingly walking slowly behind him.
Eventually, our desperate man in a suit has nowhere to go and is soon precariously hanging by his fingers over a ledge whilst Luther looms ominously above him, demanding to know where he has hidden a kidnapped child.
Finally drawing a confession from him, the twist here is, instead of rescuing him from his perilous situation, Luther lets him dangle for a while until he loses his grip and falls to his death. Nice. Tells you the scriptwriter had a dark side.
From there we are taken to a murder scene inside a house. A tearful twenty-something woman, caked in blood and generally looking the worse for wear has just called 999. Her father, mother, and even the family dog have all been brutally shot.
You presume she has been attacked as well but, like all good detective stories, there is a twist. Well, there has to be really, doesn't there? and it ends there .....