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!
It’s actually all very clever, very entertaining and extremely addictive. It’s very annoying there are only six episodes and even more annoying that it takes so long for new episodes to make it over here to the States. But we will just have to be satisfied with what we’ve got.
This show was a massive hit in Britain, it has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I enjoyed every minute of it. Mitchell, who is more of a comedian than an actor, does a good job actually not being funny (for the most part) in the role of a puzzle-minded misanthrope, but I have to say the mystery underlying the whole story is the weakest part, but they had to come up with some way to keep our hero in the position to solve murders, which is, let’s be real, the whole reason we’re here.
For everyone who loves a puzzle, for everyone who loves murder mysteries, from Agatha Christie to Poirot to Matlock to Jessica Fletcher to Benoit Blanc, Ludwig is your catnip. Each episode is a new mystery, a new murder with a new batch of suspects and it’s so much fun to try to figure out who dun it. See if you can figure it out before John can. The figuring out is where the fun is.
Check out Ludwig on Brit Box, which is available through Prime Video. If you love murder mysteries with a flair and real personality, you really do owe it to yourself. They don’t come much better.
The first season (6 episodes) of Ludwig is currently available on Brit Box. It has been renewed for a second season.