"Luther" Season 5 Official Thread

[Primetime]

Detective Chief Inspector John Luther is back on the case. BBC America has greenlit a fifth season of the acclaimed crime drama Luther. Series creator and writer Neil Cross has rallied Idris Elba back to reprise his role as the dark-minded detective, last seen in December 2015 in a two-episode miniseries.

Cross explained that the show certainly never felt resolved, and that Luther would never be finished hunting down evil in London. “It can’t be over, can it? There’s so much we don’t know. So much unfinished business,” he said in a statement. “In the end, we picked up the phone to some old friends and asked if they’d like to find out what happens next. It turns out, they would. So that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to find out what happens next.”

There’s no news on what “old friends” might be joining Elba for the new season, but the actor expressed his enthusiasm for a return to the character. “I am thrilled that we have been able to bring it all together. I look forward to putting the coat back on,” he said

Production will begin early next year on the four-episode fifth season; no premiere date has been announced. Elba can next be seen in August in the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, and in November in Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok.

4 episodes this time


Luther along with Misfits was one of the first British shows i started watching years ago, was also one of if not the best.

My only issue i had was the short seasons but the content itself was always worthy

 

[DaRealness]

Seasons 1 & 2 are classics.

Season 3 was good, but definitely not on the same level.

They shouldn't even have bothered with 'Season 4' at all, it was atrocious. It doesn't even count IMO. I'm still a Luther fan of course but I don't know WTF they were thinking.

Season 5 better be the pinnacle of piffery.

 

[Primetime]

Seasons 1 & 2 are classics.

Season 3 was good, but definitely not on the same level.

They shouldn't even have bothered with 'Season 4' at all, it was atrocious. It doesn't even count IMO. I'm still a Luther fan of course but I don't know WTF they were thinking.

Season 5 better be the pinnacle of piffery.

It did feel like Alice's departure messed them all up and they felt compelled to still include her as a driving plot plot. I wouldn't have acknowledged her that season (i.e. make some excuse about her being away) and would've just written a different plot/storyline.

 

[DaRealness]

It did feel like Alice's departure messed them all up and they felt compelled to still include her as a driving plot plot. I wouldn't have acknowledged her that season (i.e. make some excuse about her being away) and would've just written a different plot/storyline.

It's their fault the actress even left. I don't know why the film makers and writers here shoot themselves in the foot by driving away their best talent and forcing them to go stateside.

 

[Jmare007]

I didn't hate Season 4 as others but it was certainly the worst in the series, it was just "there".

Man if Alice is indeed gone then they gotta amp the fukkery with a story as demonic as them evil ass twins

 

[head shots101]

SMH I don't even remember the last season

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

When/where the fukk did Season 4 come out?

 

[DaRealness]

I didn't hate Season 4 as others but it was certainly the worst in the series, it was just "there".

Man if Alice is indeed gone then they gotta amp the fukkery with a story as demonic as them evil ass twins

Those twins were the GOAT. Tho cos I'm in the same places they filmed all that fukkery every week and you can just see that happening irl. When one of them was attacking all those people in the office that shyt was nightmarish and realistic as fukk. My ex was when we was watching that the first time.

SMH I don't even remember the last season

When/where the fukk did Season 4 come out?

Exactly. They didn't even include it on netflix.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Exactly. They didn't even include it on netflix.

I knew there was a Season 4, but I assumed it hadn't been released yet since it's never appeared on Netflix.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I didn't like S1's ending, and felt overall the season was kind of meh. Everything was wrapped up too perfectly, and the final eps just seemed trivial in terms of convenient plotting. Does the show get better in S2?

The only bright spot to me was Idris, who is good-to-great in everything.

 

[Real]

Yesssssssss

 

[Mic-Nificent]

He probably saw that final cut of Dark Tower and was like "Let me get some more of these Luther checks right quick".

 

[RennisDeynolds]

No Alice still and after season 4 , they can keep that (Imma still watch though )

 

[Kane]

If it's anything like season 4 he shouldn't even waste his time

 

[Sinnerman]

It's their fault the actress even left. I don't know why the film makers and writers here shoot themselves in the foot by driving away their best talent and forcing them to go stateside.

What happened between Alice and the production?