Just started watching Luther on Netflix

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Top John Gordon Sinclair In Drag- alike  Alice Morgan gives rise to the very first " Wait a minute, what the fornicating fuck? " moment in " Luther", when she's being all interrogated and that, and yer man yawns, and she doesn't,  so Luthie Boy concludes she done murdered her folks and her dog, cos she " lacks empathy ". Erm, what ?

[jobotic]

I'm still watching the show despite my damning opening post.  I was expecting some gritty, realistic The Wire style show but now I see it's just a villain of the week thing, and I think it's decent enough.

Also Luther hasn't said 'this doesn't feel right' for a few episodes now.

Well that doesn't feel right.

[MuteBanana]

Seeing as I can barely remember the show I probably felt the same way as everyone else. Think Smiley's character would've been a much better partner for Luther with the Scouser playing a bumbling desk duty officer. No idea if it was based on a book or whatever and they're just following that but, yeah. Picked the wrong partner.

[garnish]

He's gone back to saying this doesn't feel right

[MuteBanana]

Just seen a story on how they wanted to make a US version. Which seems ridiculous to me.

'There's a couple of reasons [why it didn't happen]. One, if I'm really honest, was that they couldn't find a John Luther.

'And two, it was really hard to find a city that felt as big as London, but also as intimate.'         

The star also added that there was never any discussion of him taking on the title role in the US version.

He said: 'Nah – there were ideas of John going to America for some of the episodes in our show, but no version of me being an American John Luther.'

Some of the episodes of our show. So they never thought about the idea of Luther moving to America then. Which seems like the highly unlikely but obvious choice. You want an American version of Luther? Give them Elba set in Washington or fucking Dallas.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Elba is well-known in America, so I don't understand why they wouldn't want him to star in a US version. Luther suddenly deciding to emigrate to America is no more unlikely than anything else that's ever happened in this silly programme. To be honest, they could set an entire series on the fucking moon and I'd probably go along with it if it was entertaining enough.

[kalowski]

I'll tell you what's missing: