Luther

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Season 5
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Dec 4, 2019
    60
    It allows the mind to roam across many questions while the story unspools efficiently before you, asking little in the way of mental or emotional investment and giving much in the way of solidly old-fashioned whodunnitry. Pairs well with apple crumble and custard or large slabs of Dairy Milk.
  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    May 23, 2019
    60
    Alice's vendetta against an equally lethal gangster keeps distracting poor Luther from a lurid case involving a fetishistic serial killer. It's all a bit much, but if it weren't, it wouldn't be Luther. [27 May - 9 Jun 2019, p.12]
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  3. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Jun 3, 2019
    58
    Unfortunately, it’s the law of diminishing returns.
  5. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    May 31, 2019
    50
    The enthusiasm for the latest four-episode run -- which again features Ruth Wilson's implacable killer, Alice Morgan -- dissipates amid a subplot involving another psychosexual serial killer, feeling more tired than usual.

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User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. SimboTheKing
    May 10, 2023
    6
    Yeah at this point Luther is getting a bit stale and I hope the film is either a) completely refreshing or b) if it continues the same toneYeah at this point Luther is getting a bit stale and I hope the film is either a) completely refreshing or b) if it continues the same tone the last Luther media we see. It's a one trick pony really and, whilst that trick is very good, it ultimately is not enough to carry a show for 5 seasons. The issues that I may have overlooked in previous seasons as the show was just so stylish and new are now really distracting - the entire police department in Luther are so useless it's a wonder how anyone keeps their jobs (although reading met reports irl maybe there's more truth than fiction in this haha) and the killers are so one-note and underdeveloped it's crazy. It's a show full of contrivances and stretched logic.

    Of course Idris and Ruth are stellar as always but I get the sense that even they are a bit bored of their characters now. So long, farewell Luther - you were good when you were good but the last couple of seasons have been very very meh.    … Full Review »
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