In Episode 1 we meet the clever / crazy Luther, Idris Elba, and a clever / crazy woman who's killed her family, Ruth Wilson. These two are great - the whole show, really, despite presence of other characters: Steven Mackintosh (The Jury, The Jacket, Lock Stock), police boss Saskia Reeves, ex Indira Varma, Paul McGann, Warren Brown (new DS).
Brian Kirk directed this and two, in which ex military Sam Spruell is killing coppers at the behest of his father, Sean Pertwee. Both episodes edited with bravura by Vic Boydell.
Paul Rhys is the nutter in three, directed by Sam Miller - nasty episode involving woman in freezer. And in fact it's the gratuitous violence against women in the series - particularly in the final two episodes - which is really off-putting. Dermot Crowley is the investigating detective. Miller has a tendency to frame his characters to the edge of the screen, which can cause some disconcerting edits (Tania Reddin - The Salisbury Poisonings, Cilla, He Kills Coppers).
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