Lucifer holds a special place in my heart. Okay, not the actual devil obviously, but this show. Okay and the actor that plays Lucifer (that accent!!). Seasons 1-3 gave us a weirdly comforting show. You wouldn’t think a show about the Devil could be comforting. But he is just so charming, and he has a good heart, promise! Plus, it was one of those shows that you could just jump in whenever if you wanted to, because there was a different crime to solve every episode.
Let me back up a little, Lucifer is a show derived from author/creator Neil Gaiman (same author of American Gods which is a show on Starz that I’ve been meaning to watch because I met the whole cast including Ricky Whittle, my favorite — he played Lincoln in the show The 100? Yes? No? Anyway, I digress…)
Lucifer is a show about the Devil deciding he isn’t enjoying his life in Hell anymore and takes a vacation by moving to L.A. where he becomes a rich nightclub owner. When a murder happens at his nightclub, he feels something he hasn’t felt in a long time, something mirroring sympathy. At the scene of the crime, he meets Chloe, the Detective in charge of the case. He partners up with her to solve crimes and sees an inherent goodness in her that he is attracted to. I’ll just leave it at that.
So, when Fox canceled Lucifer after three seasons, I was moderately upset but not as upset as I was when I watched the season three finale. Stop reading here if you haven’t seen it yet!
(SPOILERS BELOW)
In the season 3 finale, Chloe (The Detective) finally sees Lucifer reveal his Devil face. Like…hello?! We have been waiting for this moment the entire series and the most important person in Lucifers life on Earth to find out the truth and then you just cancel the show?!
Enter, Netflix. Our all time savior for well, everything. That is until they cancel their own shows then I’m not cool with you Netflix, and we have a brief breakup that lasts a total of not even half a day.
Anyway, Netflix thank God (ha!), revived Lucifer for its fourth season. While keeping the integrity of the show (whatever that means, but you get it right?), they bring in a lot of elements that we didn’t even realize we were missing in the previous seasons. Each episode flows seamlessly, but the camera angles and cinematography are dramatically better. Each episode has a different crime like before, but successfully continues the ongoing plot as it builds up in the background, delivering surprise after surprise. Like….EVE as in Adam and Eve coming back to Earth and wanting to party with Lucifer, like….a half angel half human baby being born as a celestial being…like…Lucifer going FULL Devil in his appearance.
I personally found this season to be my favorite of them all. Until the end where I cried like a baby because Lucifer knows he needs to return to Hell even though Chloe (finally!) accepts him for what he is, tells him she loves him, and begs him to stay. That being said, I have to point out the obvious here. Did no one else think of Phantom of the Opera when watching this?!?! He’s so charming, obsessed with her, has an evilness to him, and she falls in love with him and you’re sitting back like okay I get you, but, also that sounds like Stockholm syndrome…? Anyway, you do you Chloe. And Netflix, you better bring this back for another amazing season!!