I recently got the internet back. Stop fretting (or begin fretting, then stop) as I have returned.
Luther (BBC1) stars Idris "Shooter Bell" Elba, as he is often referred, as a cop that doesn't play by the rules. Sounds cliche? Well there's more. He is the smartest person on the police force and could quite well be a genius. Seen that one too? Well he has relationship troubles. Oh? Erm...
He put a pedophile into a coma. Got you there.
The man who is "nitroglycerin", according to an unusually poetic police officer, tracked down a sex offender, interrogated him and left him to fall, him becoming comatose. Seven months out of the force, relationship problems. He's back. What now?
A villain as smart as him? Sure, the trope bucket is not full yet.
How can something so obvious and unoriginal be any good then? I'll tell you how. Through an astounding lead with Elba and an astounding actress in Ruth Wilson. It makes this battle of wits very interesting and came up with one the best lines in TV Drama of recent memory: "Kiss me. Kill me. Do something."
I have the shivers.
As if that wasn't enough, we get a cop killer in Episode 2. Nice.
The stylish, overblown tone of the series is something we don't usually get in BBC Cop Drama, with many preferring to focus on realism and edge and grit. We have all that, but we get a huge helping of some damn good entertainment as well. And that's always nice. Elba works with massive aplomb, talking about black holes as if it were the football scores.
Would be the best thing on television, if it wasn't for that bloody Doctor.
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