Episode #5.4

No plot , only key persons deaths without reason! Not even a clever puzzle to solve, all was a huge nothing!

The amount of killing in this episode and the whole season is ridiculous. It seems the producers just wanted to shock the viewers with gruesome kills without too much of a sensible plot. Talking of which, the plot was just messy, it wasn't very clear which storyline was the main one - the psychopath killing doctors, the mob king Cornelius and his lost son or a crazy psychopath Alice. Bringing her back from dead seemed like a very random plot twist which was probably supposed to simply shock us even more. The producers just overdid it this time with shocks, grusomeness and senseless killing of main characters, which is a shame.

Luther should had taken Alice's advice. Let her kill George Cornelius.

Luther instead wanted to do the right thing and know finds himself sinking in a metaphorical quicksand.

Meanwhile Jeremy Lake plans a killing spree and it is left to Halliday to try to break his wife as Luther has to free Mark and Alice from the hitman.

I long ago gave up any sense in Luther, you just sit back and enjoy the ride.

You can sense Alice's disappointment when Luther lies to her. There were one or two killings that were senseless in my opinion and wasted good characters.

By the end Luther has nowhere to go and is even stripped of his long coat.

Mention must be made of Dermot Crowley as Schenk. The look of seething anger in his face when he learned of Benny's death was something else.

The fifth season of "Luther" is, perhaps, the most satisfying yet.

Despite the seemingly impossible task of locating the psychopathic doctor whose actions are now out of control, Luther is determined to crack this case and save his friends from almost certain death.

With only an hour of screen time, this episode manages to conclude the series in a satisfying way whilst also leaving the viewer in something resembling a state of shock. There are a lot of things to process as the end credits roll.

This is British drama at its best.

10 out of 10.

These comments refer to the whole fifth season, not just the final episode.

This series has two intertwined plots. In one somebody is committing brutal murders; the police quickly have a suspect when a psychiatrist comes forward saying that she fears that one of her patients is the killer. In the second story somebody has kidnapped the son of gangster George Cornelius... who is convinced that Luther is involved.

This four part story marked a welcome return; not just for Idris Elba's DCI Luther but also for Alice who everybody thought was dead. This return could have been a problem but it was dealt with in a matter of fact fashion and worked well. It must be stated that this pretty grim at times with several brutal murders and scenes of torture that will certainly bother some viewers. It does get rather melodramatic towards the end, with even more violence, but it didn't feel out of place and featured one genuinely shocking moment. The cast are impressive; Elba is great as Luther, I can understand why people talk of him as a possible Bond; Ruth Wilson is equally great as Alice, one of my favourite characters in the series. Also particularly notable are Hermione Norris, as the psychiatrist; Wunmi Mosaku as DS Catherine Halliday and Patrick Malahide as George Cornelius. Overall I'd say that this was a really impressive story that fans of Luther are pretty sure to enjoy.