Luther and the Making of Idris Elba's Career

The BBC crime thriller series Luther comes back to WETA-UK starting this month. We look back at the landmark series that made the career of Idris Elba. For both fans of the actor, and fans of BBC mysteries and thrillers, this is a must-watch series.

Alice Morgan: Well that's just faulty logic postulated on imperfect data collection. What if you only catch people who make mistakes? That would skew the figures, wouldn't it?

Luther debuted back in May 2010 on BBC One, a six part crime thriller from writer Neil Cross. Starring Idris Elba as the titular detective, who up until then was only know for the early seasons of HBO's The Wire, the series pitted him against the psychotic killer Alice Morgan, played by the indominable Ruth Wilson. Except...Alice isn't actually the bad guy. In fact, she might just be on Luther's side....at least in her own mind.