Luther.

Tummy · 14 Jun 2011 at 21:45

New season started tonight (June 14th) on BBC One at 9.00pm.

Available on BBC iPlayer shortly after

Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. A first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC One from 4 May to 8 June 2010.

Thought I'd start a new thread about it. Missed it at 9.00pm so will download it on iPlayer tonight. Really looking forward to it. Brilliant first season.

Stewy · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:02

Definately didn't **** myself at the end...

This and Game of Thrones are the highlights of my tv week.

whitecrook · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:02

Watched some if this last year. Seemed a bit dreary.

Kosmiche · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:09

Anyone know what the quality is like on iplayer downloads?

The file is over 500mb so I'm guessing theyre good?

If not I will just stream

semi-pro waster · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:17

I hadn't heard anything about this before now and tuned in mainly because nothing else on stood out as great but it was fairly entertaining so I'll keep an eye out for it from now on.

Valentino · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:45

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0120z2z/Luther_Series_2_Episode_1/

First season was epic, didn't even know this was back on until i casually looked at iPlayer. I need to update my RSS feeds i think.

Valentino · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:48

Eames said:
Anyone know what the quality is like on iplayer downloads?

The file is over 500mb so I'm guessing theyre good?

If not I will just stream

Click on watch in HD then download that one. It's 900MB.

Jimmy1983 · 14 Jun 2011 at 23:15

I guess I better start on season 1 then!

Weebull · 14 Jun 2011 at 23:16

Oh look, a maverick cop who doesn't play by the rules whose hunches somehow manage to be absolutely correct every time. And look, his boss is an exhausted yet sympathetic bureaucrat who is constantly having to clean up after his mess. And they're always at odds you say? That's novel.

Converge · 14 Jun 2011 at 23:18

Weebull said:
Oh look, a maverick cop who doesn't play by the rules whose hunches somehow manage to be absolutely correct every time. And look, his boss is an exhausted yet sympathetic bureaucrat who is constantly having to clean up after his mess. And they're always at odds you say? That's novel.

You're right, it's completely like every other cop drama out there.

Oh wait. It's not. I hope you watched the first series before coming to that conclusion.

Weebull · 14 Jun 2011 at 23:46

No, I plucked out of thin air.

Of course I watched the first series, and it was chock full of cliches. A brilliant performance by Ruth Wilson and Idris Elba doing his best Tortured Deep Voice wasn't enough to stop me from getting incredibly fed up with how he figured anything out within ten seconds of looking at it.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't as stellar as it liked to think it was. I'll probably watch the second series, but I don't expect it to ever rise above "watchable" for me.

Valentino · 14 Jun 2011 at 23:50

Did you watch the recent south park episode? You sound like Stan.

Tummy · 15 Jun 2011 at 00:51

Weebull said:
No, I plucked out of thin air.

Of course I watched the first series, and it was chock full of cliches. A brilliant performance by Ruth Wilson and Idris Elba doing his best Tortured Deep Voice wasn't enough to stop me from getting incredibly fed up with how he figured anything out within ten seconds of looking at it.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't as stellar as it liked to think it was. I'll probably watch the second series, but I don't expect it to ever rise above "watchable" for me.

I agree with almost everything that you've said Weeb, just that I thought it pulled things together very well, well presented cliches if you will. I enjoy dark brooding crime / cop drama's so this was right up my alley

o) so to speak.

Pestilence · 15 Jun 2011 at 10:05

Nooooooooo! I forgot about it!

iPlayer it is for me tonight, then.

Vonhelmet · 15 Jun 2011 at 10:30

Weebull said:
No, I plucked out of thin air.

Of course I watched the first series, and it was chock full of cliches. A brilliant performance by Ruth Wilson and Idris Elba doing his best Tortured Deep Voice wasn't enough to stop me from getting incredibly fed up with how he figured anything out within ten seconds of looking at it.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't as stellar as it liked to think it was. I'll probably watch the second series, but I don't expect it to ever rise above "watchable" for me.

I enjoyed it, but I've got to agree that it's very cliched.

I was shocked and amazed to see that his marriage was in trouble. That's never happened to a cop before.

rotters · 15 Jun 2011 at 12:39

very little original TV now, but if its well done, and the stories are thought provoking then ill watch....I enjoyed last nights episode, something about clown faces/masks that really get to me.

megalomanic · 15 Jun 2011 at 12:58

I had never heard of this show until last night, definitely going to keep watching. Idris was great in The Wire, and seems to play quite a convincing character here too, despite the obvious clichés the show has as mentioned.

this and the apprentice are the only things i have enjoyed watching on the bbc recently, perhaps there's more that I'm missing out on that I don't know about

Martynt74 · 15 Jun 2011 at 14:41

StewartMG said:
Definately didn't **** myself at the end...

Me neither

ergonomics · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:25

I was part of the post production team for this.. you guys are in for a treat, it's a wicked second series (albeit short!).

IIDeathCubeKII · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:27

He will always be Stringer Bell to me