I know, I know, another British detective show. Is it my fault that detective shows are all the Brits seem to make? And is it my fault that they all are so good?
But hear me out, this one is just a little different.
Ludwig is a British detective show, which aired last year in Britain to much acclaim and is now finally available here on Brit Box, but it’s a little different. Ludwig stars popular British comedian David Mitchell as John Taylor, a reclusive puzzlemaker who is asked by his twin brother’s wife Lucy, played by Anna Maxwell Martin, to help when his twin brother goes missing. John’s brother was a police detective, so Lucy thinks the best way to figure out what happened to her husband is to ask John to pretend to be him and see what he can figure out. Of course, as soon as John goes into the police station and passes as his brother, the police detective, he gets pulled into a murder investigation and uses his puzzle-solving skills to solve the case.
So, over the course of the six episodes of the first season, the structure of each episode is relatively formulaic and straightforward: there is a new murder that the fake detective must solve using his real puzzle brain while working with his fake wife to find his missing twin brother. Simple!