Luther

Final Series, is there to be no more then?????

I thought it was the final series, but maybe I’m wrong.

They seem to claim it's the final series every time so we'll have to see if this time it's true.

I can't remember when the first episode ever of Luther was broadcast but I do remember watching a little of it and turning it off because it was so violent. I haven't bothered to watch it since, and note that the pre-publicity for this series emphasized the sadistic nature of the programme: "This Will Hurt". Yet people seem to enjoy that sort of thing.

Thank you Pagzy I'm back with it now. I'm still clutching the cushion throughout this.

It IS rather violent - but then so is Eastenders (not seen it for 20 years, had the misfortune to catch the last 10 minutes last night), which is on when many schoolchildren are watching. That is definitely wrong.

I agree with your point re Eastenders Lynne59. I stopped watching it years ago because everything and everybody in it was so unpleasant.

I enjoy watching a good thriller as a form of escapism and can divorce myself from the violence because it isn't real, but this series has become so violent it is now silly. It makes you wonder whether anyone will be left standing at the end! What I really dislike is the fact that someone can have a good bashing around the head, then carry on as if nothing has happened a short time later. No neurosurgery, ITU or a lifetime of rehab!

We were catching up on the last series yesterday. It was so horrible at one point that I couldn’t watch and had to go out of the room!

Disappointing.

I tried to watch it this time as so many had told me how good it was.
No thanks, not for me. Dark and violent. I wonder what sort of people think up these things. Probably seemingly normal people that we might meet any day. Makes you wonder doesn’t it ?

A friend raves about this programme - I told her I had never seen it and she has given me the box set of the first 4 series. I have only watched the first two programmes of the first series and am still not convinced. I will watch a few more episodes to give it a chance.

On a side note, why do the main characters in detective programmes all either have a troubled background, a broken/troubled marriage or some other problem?

A little too action-packed and a few too many deaths for my liking. I'll say no more so as to give no spoilers away, but it wasn't my favourite Luther. Perhaps it's run its course.

Load of unmitigated rubbish. The man is an ego on legs and leaves death and destruction all around him. First series I’ve watched and never again.

Everything is so dark, in every way, and I'm left needing an explanatory booklet as to what on earth happened!

I loved Luther but after this 'final' series i think it has had its day.It was very violent and quite scary at times, those awful scenes at the end inside the house. Found myself checking the front and back doors were both secured!!! Wont say anything else as dont want to spoil for anyone going to watch on catch up but it has lost its attraction for me.

This developed into such an unbelievable horror fest, that it became comic book silly. IMO should never have been made. It has definitely run its course.

Well that's was quite barmy in the end how the actors did it without laughing at that dialogue I dont know. The TV critic in the Telegraph today says Idris Elba should now give up on Luther and concentrate on being Bond- I agree he would make a great Bond.

Could you have a Bond with bandy legs Teetime?

He’d be fine. Unless he ever had to catch a pig in a passage.

Well I have watched to series 4. It has got more and more violent, and actually quite repetitive and a bit boring. In the end I was on my laptop and also watching, as it was no longer holding my attention. Agreed also very dark, and sometimes hard to hear.

I liked it at first, but now I've had enough and have wiped the rest. It's a shame as it could have been much better without the constant extreme and unnecessary violence.

Completely unbelievable and too much violence. Still I watched it just to see what the next impossible event would be.

I'm not going upstairs on the bus again and I hope not to need heart surgery.....
One question. Why would anyone who has a multi million pound house with a basement room for torture not shell out for soundproofing?

Mean? as well as crazy? Who knows? One thing you can't expect from Luther is anything reasonable.

Well I’m obviously in the minority here, I really liked this, I do think you have had to have seen the whole series from day one, Luther is very complex and his relationship with Alice from the beginning intrigued me, though I do think series five was the weakest, relying maybe on too much violence, but then the dr was truely insane, I guess I must have a really dark side as I read books like this all the time?