by Austen Terry, Contributing Writer
Five years ago on Fox, a show called Lucifer premiered. It dared to ask the question, “What do you truly desire?” Lucifer began five years after the titular character Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) decided to quit being the Devil and live on earth. He traveled to the city of Los Angeles with his friend and demon Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt) to live amongst the humans so he opened a nightclub called Lux. It was outside of Lux five years later that a client/customer/friend of Lucifer was murdered outside the club. This incident allowed Lucifer to meet Chloe Decker (Lauren German), and he decided to help the LAPD in not only solving this murder, and to partner with Chloe to solve other murders in LA. Along for the ride came Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside), Lucifer’s angel brother who was determined to get Lucifer back to hell, Dan Espinoza (Kevin Alejandro), Chloe’s ex-husband and fellow detective, Trixie Espinoza (Scarlett Estevez), Dan and Chloe’s Daughter, Ella Lopez (Aimee Garcia), lovable forensic tech, and Dr. Linda Martin (Rachel Harris), Lucifer’s psychologist.
During the first five seasons of Lucifer, this team works together to solve cases and potentially save the world from impending threats such as Amenadiel and other angels, the Goddess of All Creation, Cain, Eve, Lucifer’s twin Michael, and God himself. Lucifer has some clever villains and some deep twisting stories that have kept viewers coming back for more and even saving the show. Seasons one through three were produced by Fox and seasons four through six were produced by Netflix. The fans of the show ended up saving it twice: when Fox tried to cancel the show and when they convinced Netflix to give Lucifer a proper send-off.
Lucifer‘s sixth and final season is no different really from its previous seasons. It picks up right where season five part two left off and manages to land the plane for the series in a satisfying way. To not spoil the previous season for any readers who haven’t watch them, this season begins with Lucifer trying to decide when to do the thing he felt called to at the end of Season 5. Most of the episodes grapple with him making that decision. Along for the ride came a new character named Rory (Brianna Hildebrand), who comes along hell-bent to kill Lucifer for some reason and even tricks Dan into helping her. Lucifer also begins to deal with trying to help the people stuck in their hell loops, as he calls them. See, in this universe created by Neil Gaiman, Heaven and Hell are real but it’s, not a place where good go here and bad go there. Instead, if anyone dies and feels guilty about anything in their lives, they end up in hell, inevitably stuck in your torment, experiencing your guilt over and over.
Season six also pulled several people from previous seasons and episodes for Lucifer to help therapeutically overcome their guilt. Each actor plays their characters beautifully in each season, and the chemistry between Tom and Lauren is fantastic, especially in this season. But Tom and Brianna’s chemistry is great too. Brianna brings a breath of fresh air to the series and truly brings this new character to life in the short amount we see her, and she has an excellent character arc in just 10 episodes. All in all, Lucifer the series is excellent and if you haven’t seen it, please stop reading now and go watch it. I highly recommend it.
(Spoilers Ahead)
Lucifer season 6 picks up months after Lucifer, Amenadiel, Chloe, Maze, Eve, and the demons win the war against Michael and the other Angels for the role of God and the throne of Heaven and Earth. Lucifer has won and it is past due time for him to ascend to the throne. The simple thing is, he keeps putting it off. In episode two, we finally meet Rory, a fierce angel with some pretty sick wings, and she is looking for a way to get back at Lucifer. So she goes to Hell to speak to Michael. But instead, she finds Dan, still dealing with his guilt, and together they travel back to earth. We learn that Rory is Lucifer’s daughter who he abandoned, and she is from the future. Rory is Chloe and Lucifer’s daughter. Along the road, Lucifer is trying to deal with becoming God and finding out how he can care for all humanity. Ella also finally realizes that most of her friends are celestial beings in a world-ending plot you think will be catastrophic, but is all the angels granting prayers since Heaven is without a God at the moment.
Lucifer goes on an emotional rollercoaster throughout this season because after being abandoned by God himself, he can’t comprehend why he would abandon his child. After Rory is taken by the mercenary who killed Dan, Lucifer realizes his true calling is healing the broken souls and helping them get to Heaven. This final season had me in tears and the scene that did it was Dan as a ghost inside the body of the man that killed him, having a talk with his daughter Trixie. He realizes his guilt was his self-doubt and he finally sees the light and goes to Heaven. Amenadiel realizes he should become God, but with the twist to work on Earth to help humanity. We also get to see Maze and Eve get married in a beautiful ceremony. The show closes showing everyone is happy. Even the devil finally gets to spend eternity in Hell with Chloe at his side.
All of this gets packed into this short season, which is excellent. I feel like any more episodes and we would get bogged down with the same repeating theme of Lucifer running from the truth. I kind of now want to see Rory grow up without Lucifer, mainly because of how well Brianna played her. Maybe we could get a spinoff following her character.
For me, this show wasn’t something that piqued my interest while it was airing on Fox, but after seeing clips online, it sparked me to check it out, and I am so glad I did. Even though Lucifer plays a small part in Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel, I want to read it to learn more about this world. I am saddened that another of my favorite shows has come to an end, but I am glad that it came to such a satisfying conclusion. I cannot recommend this series enough. Go check it out. There are incredible and talented actors attached to it and it’s one amazing story from start to finish.
“Because if the Devil can be redeemed then anyone can”
Lucifer Series Grade: A+
Lucifer Season 6 Grade: A
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