28/29
To start with, it's a good, solid, serial-killer show
Story
Series adaptation of James Patterson novels about the complicated and brilliant detective, Alex Cross.. Hodge is the third actor to portray Cross, following in the footsteps of Morgan Freeman, who first played him onscreen in 1997's Kiss the Girls and again in the 2001 movie sequel Along Came a Spider; and Tyler Perry as the titular character in 2012's Alex Cross, which bombed at the box office and led Lionsgate to scrap the preplanned sequel Double Cross..
With Luther you get that
So I've got that out of the way.However, I think it's the poor cousin to the UK's Luther with Idris Elba. Both he and Cross are billed as having extraordinary psychological analysis skills.
With Cross you don't
There are only two times in 8 episodes where he does the whole "Spideysense" thing and gives an analysis that others just don't see.Then there's the inconsequential acting from some of the big part actors. Their scenes just don't do justice to the great acting of the main characters.And the last point is Iasiah Mustafa.
In this show he is the spit image of Andy Farrell, the Irish Rugby team coach
One's a black guy and the other's a white guy but, boy, the resemblance is uncanny!Enjoyable show but I think Luther does it better.