The Curious Case of John Luther and the Remake that Still Isn’t

Even before I was a big comic book fan, I was a big Wonder Woman fan in junior high school. One day, some promotion was going on where they were giving away some Wonder Woman stuff. Posters, stickers, etc (our school probably pimped themselves out to DC for a week as I remember Princess Diana pencils boxes and Golden Lasso of Truth spaghetti being served at lunch). There were posters being handed out while we sat for lunch when they reached our table, a lot of the kids acted too cool for school (including myself) like we were scared to admit that we wanted a giant Diana Prince watching over us while we slept. Then the person handing them out said, “Well, you’re all boys at this table, so you can’t have them anyway.” Immediately, I was indignant, “The *$%# you mean I can’t have a Wonder Woman poster!” Make no mistake, this had nothing to do with gender politics or any blossoming feminism on my part, more so my privilege of being upset about being told I couldn’t have something. I also realized I was the only person that was raising a fuss about this and therefore outed myself as a closeted Wonder Woman lover. Ehh, I’ve been labeled far worse.

20+ years later, I had a similar feeling to the news that the show Luther may or may not be remade for the United States. Now, for those unfamiliar, Luther is a BBC show starring one of the most popular actors in the world right now, Idris Elba. The show has run for three seasons with the fourth being filmed as we speak. In the show, Elb…