Home > Luther > Season 3 « TV Series Page Luther: Season 3 (2013) SEASON: Season 3 Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Episode List All Critics | Top Critics TOMATOMETER 88% Average Rating: 7.69/10 Season Reviews: 25 Fresh: 22 Rotten: 3 Critics Consensus: Idris Elba shines in the title role of Luther despite familiar circumstances that benefit from the shortened season. 90% Average Rating: 7.12/10 Season Reviews: 10 Fresh: 9 Rotten: 1 Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Critic Consensus: Idris Elba shines in the title role of Luther despite familiar circumstances that benefit from the shortened season. AUDIENCE SCORE 93% liked it Average Rating: 4.2/5 User Ratings: 258 ADD YOUR RATING - NOT INTERESTED + WANT TO SEE Share on Facebook Post Want to See Not Interested Add Rating My Rating × Want to See Not Interested Post Share on Facebook Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Sep 3, 2013 A fetishist murders women in a horrific style that recalls unsolved cases from the 1980s as Series 3 begins. Luther's focus is divided when he is assigned to investigate the death of an Internet tormentor. Later, he meets a beautiful woman at a car crash. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Sep 4, 2013 News of another murder has Luther comparing unsolved case files, and he orders Ripley to investigate the murder of the Internet tormentor alone. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Sep 5, 2013 A vigilante-serial killer goes after past offenders. Meanwhile, Mary gets a visit from Gray and Stark. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Sep 6, 2013 The vigilante targets Luther and those close to him. Stark and Gray take Mary to a secret place for her safety. More Luther: Season 3 Photos View All Photos (58) Tv Season Info Idris Elba, known for playing drug dealer Stringer Bell on "The Wire," is back in the third season of "Luther" as he explores life on the other side of the law in this psychological crimedrama from acclaimed crime writer Neil Cross ("MI-5"). Elba portrays John Luther, a brilliant but tortured homicide detective who gets caught up in the psychological cat-and-mouse game between detective and criminal.The thirdseason includes DCI Erin Gray (Nikki Amuka-Bird)as she adjusts to her recent promotionand an ex-cop comes out of retirement questioning Luther's past. Cast members joining thethird seasonincludeDavid O'Hara as DSU George Stark and Sienna Guillory as Luther's new love interest, Mary Day. Genre: Drama Network: BBC Premiere Date: Sep 3, 2013 Creator: Neil Cross Exec. Producer: Phillippa Giles Cast Idris Elba as John Luther Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan Paul McGann as Mark North Warren Brown as Det. Sgt. Justin Ripley Kierston Wareing as Caroline Jones Dermot Crowley as Martin Schenk Sienna Guillory David O'Hara Nikki Amuka-Bird Show More Cast News & Interviews for Luther: Season 3 2016 Emmy Winners Announced: Game of Thrones and Veep Win Top Awards 2016 Emmy Nominees Ranked By Tomatometer 2016 Emmy Award Nominations View All Luther: Season 3 News Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Sep 3, 2013 A fetishist murders women in a horrific style that recalls unsolved cases from the 1980s as Series 3 begins. Luther's focus is divided when he is assigned to investigate the death of an Internet tormentor. Later, he meets a beautiful woman at a car crash. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Sep 4, 2013 News of another murder has Luther comparing unsolved case files, and he orders Ripley to investigate the murder of the Internet tormentor alone. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Sep 5, 2013 A vigilante-serial killer goes after past offenders. Meanwhile, Mary gets a visit from Gray and Stark. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Sep 6, 2013 The vigilante targets Luther and those close to him. Stark and Gray take Mary to a secret place for her safety. More Critic Reviews for Luther Season 3 All Critics (25) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (3) A "season" of Luther feels brief, because it is. After a two-year wait, the whole thing begins and ends this week. But because it wastes none of that time, it also feels like we've been studying this guy for a long time. Sep 4, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… David Hinckley New York Daily News Top Critic Luther is a great example of all of the annoying a TV show can do and still be worth watching, so long as it gets some essential things right. Sep 3, 2013 | Full Review… Willa Paskin Slate Top Critic Elba makes Luther's haunted, lonely soul into something faceted and more sympathetic than most of TV's broody detectives. Sep 3, 2013 | Full Review… Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe Top Critic This was a solid set of episodes for the show, though there was a bit more that could have been explored. Aug 26, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… Terence Johnson AwardsCircuit.com Luther is saved from terminal morbidity by the panache with which director Sam Miller handles the material. Jul 22, 2018 | Full Review… Adam Sweeting The Arts Desk The real reason Luther is so compelling can be summed up in two words: Idris Elba. Jul 18, 2018 | Full Review… Claudia Connell Daily Mail (UK) Luther is good at dropping in moments of heightened suspense just as you're starting to think the script is packed with so many cinematic clichés you might just laugh. That's if you weren't so scared. Aug 14, 2017 | Full Review… Bernice Harrison Irish Times Is it stupidly brilliant or just brilliantly stupid? Don't mattah. Oct 3, 2018 | Full Review… Sarah Dempster Guardian Top Critic At least he's going out on his own terms. Jul 3, 2018 | Full Review… Gabriel Tate Time Out Top Critic The season finale wasn't quite the explosive full-stop that we'd come to expect, but it was a nice rounding off to this chapter of the show. Whatever will they do next? Sep 21, 2013 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review… Rob Batchelor We Got This Covered View All Critic Reviews (25) Audience Reviews for Luther: Season 3 JoshG Super Reviewer A very unbalanced last season, Luther disses some of its best characters in favor of more of the same. Very similar to S01 and that's not necessarily a good thing. Francisco G Super Reviewer ½ Season 3 is a bit of a return to form, but the new female detective is incredibly unlikable. I'm still not sure why Wilson never got the screen time she so clearly deserved. 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