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 Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jan 7, 2020
    80
    Luther can sometimes feel like a race towards ever more warped violence. And it can get very, very silly. But rejoice! ... Luther is always electrifying when Alice is around. If it took Wilson leaving The Affair to come back, then I'm all for it.
  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jun 3, 2019
    80
    This new season maintains a consistent tension throughout its run and even when the creeps are familiar, series creator Neil Cross frosts them with a layer of sinister that feels impossible to duplicate or, if not that, at least would be tough to attempt.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Jun 3, 2019
    80
    This season, the fifth, is a typically tidy four episodes — short arcs being advisable when you routinely suspend all the laws of logic, psychology and police procedure. Neil Cross, who created the show and still writes it, has a gift for packaging the lurid and the preposterous into hypnotizing psychodrama that moves fast enough to keep you from thinking too hard.
  5. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jun 3, 2019
    67
    The new season, written by series creator Neil Cross, has multiple callbacks to season one (the denouement brings things full circle) and fills in the blanks on where Alice has been and on her relationship with Luther, perhaps with too much information at times (allusion and mystery works better for their relationship than flat-out explanation).

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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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