Netflix’s looser standards and practices that allow us an eyeful of Lucifer’s assets.Tom Ellis’s singing voice.
Things that are not okay: Chloe, despite her protests to the contrary.
It’s Lee, the hapless criminal who’s beenleft pants-lessin two separate season premieres after run-ins with Lucifer.
Credit: John P. Fleenor/Netflix
He doesn’t know, though; the police came in before he could respond.
Then he sends Lee on his way loaded with loot to atone for his past wrongs against the man.
Well played,Netflix!
And whaddya know, today is that day.
She slides her eyes past him at the murder scene and jumps into questioning witnesses.
Now, she wants things to go back to normal.
He rejects any fault with himself, of course, and wants to know how to fixChloe.
“What does it mean when a woman recoils at your touch?”
Dan takes delight in telling him that this reaction comes from disgust.
He then exerts his superhuman strength to keep the marshal from fleeing in his car.
Before we hit the end of the episode, let’s check in with the rest of our friends.
When Amenadiel shows up, he briefly assumes they’re fighting over him.
“Becausethisis your home,” Maze says.
Yeah, but does he know about the price of real estate?
This is all very good.
Okay, back to our central couple.
Lucifer, with his hand bleeding through a bandage, is playing the piano when Chloe arrives.
and tells him that they’re still partners.
This lifts Lucifer’s burden.
Happy ending, right?
Yeah, not so fast.
Cut to Chloe crying in a church pew.
Then he asks if she’s ready for the next step.
BETRAYAL IS THE NEXT STEP.
A persuasive priest, of course.
He convinces Chloea good person who’s just had a huge shock about the man she…loves?
cares about?that Lucifer is a danger to every person on Earth.
He tells her she’s the only one who can stop him and hands her a vial.
Then she beats him to the punch by askinghimif he has plans that night.
He drops the d-word (date, you pervs!
), and she briefly hesitates before saying yes.
This happens as they’re investigating the murder of a reality show contestant.
Kinley accuses her of falling for the prince of lies' good-guy act.
“How is he doing that?”
Hey, girl, he’s the devil, ‘member?
He returns and helps her clean up, slicing his hand on a shard of glass.
What’s the difference?
“I’m only vulnerable when I’m close to you,” he says.
She removes the ax and holds it to his chest, wondering if it would kill him.
It would, he says, but he’d risk his life again and again to save her.
“Don’t you know that, detective?”
“Maybe one day you’ll see what I see,” she tells Kinley.
At his piano, Lucifer gets a text from Chloe, asking about a make-up date.
But when his elevator dings open, it’s not her.
It’s Father Kinley.
Not in my book, and I’m llllllliving for it.
“The detective would never do that,” Lucifer scoffs.
When we next see her, sheisdefending Lucifer to Dan, arguing that he’s trying to be good.
But Lucifer doesn’t care what anyone thinks.
Lucifer heads straight to Dr. Linda for advice on how to punish someone who betrays you.
Or public humiliation via YouTube?
Amenadiel at leasttriesto be more helpful, happily presenting Linda with baby books.
But she tells him she’s used to doing things on her own and sends him on his way.
She whispers no and closes the box, but he just thumbs it open again.
Comic-relief Amenadiel is the best Amenadiel!
He can, and he does.
Now, to this episode’s murders.
Two people who escaped from gangs are found with large knives protruding from their backs.
Both LuciferandDan take personally the deaths of people who were working to turn their lives around.
“At what age do your parents teach you to hunt?”
Death-wish Dan and machete-wielding Maze give a good fight scene, for sure.
Chloe and Lucifer have a calmer night…at first.
But she actually hoped they could volunteer for a soup kitchen and do some good for a change.
But Lucifer wants nothing to do with hairnets and asks what, exactly, she wants him to change.
The drive to apprehend him is quiet as Lucifer comes to terms with what he’s learned.
When they arrive, he goes charging in and bends the bars on the door to keep Chloe out.
Thankfully, Lucifer catches the “us” and refuses to dispense his punishment.
Oscar then asks God to forgive his failure and impales himself mouth-first on a jagged broken chair leg.
It’sawful, and I wonder what the Fox standards and practices people would have thought of it.
“Your friend Father Kinley must’ve been watching,” he tells Chloe.
Chloe arrests Kinley for conspiracy to commit murder, and the bishop offers to testify against him.
Afterward, she finds Lucifer, drinking and brooding in his penthouse.
He doesn’t care that Kinley was trying to hurt him; he cares thatshewas.
Then she confesses that she’sterrified.
Naturally, this crushes him, even when she says she believes he can change.
But she struggles to even meet his eyes, finally admitting, “I don’t know.”
And with that, Lucifer has his answer.
It’s just not the one he wanted.
Then we cut to Kinley in jail.
But hey, at least he tore Lucifer and Chloe apart.
Grade: B
EPISODE 4: ‘All About Eve’
Chloe and Lucifer have new partners.
I hate it and I love it and I can’t wait to talk about it with you.
Long time, no see."
It’s Eve (Inbar Lavi).
Yes,theEve, who’s found a way out of Heaven.
(“I’ve always been a bit of a rule breaker.")
She calls in his marker, asking for the truth about Pablo’s death.
Eve takes note of his jumpy reaction.
Now everyone’s after the other woman on the plane, a con artist named Odessa.
Odessa calls over a bouncer, and Eve’s thrilled to be in her first bar fight.
Then a man drives a broken pool cue deep into Lucifer’s shoulder.
Without even turning his head, he bellows, “Hello, detective.
1 is Lucifer stopping Chloe from touching his wing scars if you’re curious.)
Like I said, I loooove this and I haaaate this.
Gimme all that angst.
Off to Linda she goes.
“Who saw that coming?”
Then she asks Chloe to consider whether she wants Lucifer in her life, or not.
Speaking of Linda, she endures an awkward sonogram appointment with a stone-faced Amenadiel and a violently overprotective Maze.
She’s having a boy!
It’s unclear whether he’ll have wings, though.
Isn’t this exciting!”
In Ella’s defense, he brought her a caramel triple frap with extra whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles.
If Lucifer appeared holding that drink for me, I’d tell him anything he wanted to know.
(His paddle number’s 69, natch.)
One ball bash later, the cops make an arrest.
Chloe disappoints Lucifer by refusing to give him the necklace to hand over to Bashir.
But privately, she tells Ella that she misses Lucifer and wants him in her life.
She heads to his loft as Ella dances in joy over her decision.
Instead, she puts her hands on his cheeks and kisses him.
When she pulls back, he’s returned to his human form.
EPISODE 5: ‘Expire Erect’
This episode is brought to you by eye candy.
For some of us, it’s shirtless Lucifer at the piano (Yes!
Which, it turns out, it does.
Cut to 36 hours earlier.
We get the aforementioned shot of Lucifer playing the piano shirtless and smoking a joint.
She’s also using his toothbrush and annexing shelf space in his bathroom.
Of course, she walks in just as he’s dropped his pants to join Eve in the shower.
To know Eve is to love her, and maybe to pop some Molly with her.
He shoots Lucifer in the abdomen, and since Lucifer’s with Chloe, this is no bueno.
So Lucifer’s out of commission, Ella’s super high, and Eve has no superpowers.
Confidence restored, Chloe’s back in the game.
Chloe asks if his devil face scares her, but Eve replies simply, “Why would it?”
Take notes, Chloe!
Then we’re back to where we started.
A coked-up Ella studies the bomb wires and starts to pray.
Downstairs, things have gotten worse.
Amy was actually the robbery mastermind, and she’s there to clean up Marco’s mess.
Also, he wants to continue their police partnership.
Chloe then checks with Amenadiel to ensure Eve isn’t secretly evil or a threat to the world.
Months have passed since the previous episode, and Lucifer and Eve are living in blissful hedonism.
He’s also resumed his police work with Chloe.
Classic Lucifer, though, he insists that he’s achieved the perfect balance.
She’s also miffed that Linda is less-than-eager to fire up the baby gift she got for her.
You know, the usual.
She wakes him, and he comes to with, “Fetch me the goat!”
then sends her home to get some sleep while he researches their case into the night.
It worsens Lucifer’s domestic tension.
Not Lucifer and Ella, though.
(Her words, not mine!)
She plans to whisk the child to heaven and is disgusted to be surrounded by so much humanity.
He speaks so tenderly that Remiel figures out he’s the daddy, and she’s not pleased.
The mommy is also not pleased, having been ditched by Maze at Lamaze class.
(Our fave demon really enjoyed the graphic birthing video, though.)
Back home, Linda finally opens Maze’s gift and finds a fuzzy gray baby blanket.
Maze then walks in to explain that it’s what she would’ve wanted as a child.
Linda assures “Auntie Maze” that she’ll always be a member of their family.
I LOVE THIS FRIENDSHIP SO MUCH.
She thinks he’s already perfect and asks him to stop trying to be something he’s not.
It makes me want to be a better man.”
All hell suddenly breaks loose at the docks when they realize Julian’s running a human smuggling ring.
As the women and their captors scatter, Lucifer’s the one who catches Julian.
The man brags that at least he’s not pretending to be something he’s not.
Lucifer’s not sure he has it in him anymore, but Eve assures him he does.
He finally knows who is: The devil.
Lucifer chose his side.
EPISODE 7: ‘Devil Is as Devil Does’
Pity poor Lucifer.
But the wings are very real.
After all, why else would he spend so much time working with the police?
GEE, I WONDER.
Gold flecks on Sam’s face lead them to Ponyboy, a hitman with a golden pistol.
To her disappointment, Ponyboy denies committing the murder and comes in peacefully.
Unaware of this confession, a suspicious Dan searches for evidence that it was Lucifer who injured Julian.
Chloe, meanwhile, asks Ella for her input on celestial, Heaven-and-Hell justice.
When Chloe says she’s not the friend he needs (but she is!
Trixie runs all over the loft, putting her little kid hands on all the expensive items.
(Good thing they’ve cleaned up from their run of orgies.)
They run to safety as Lucifer incapacitates the men.
Once everything is calm again, Chloe reminds Lucifer about his dual devil/angel nature.
“I think you should look,” she says, hugging Eve and leaving.
She finally asks Maze outright, “Are you in love with me?”
He tells her he’s been too scared to check on his wings, but today he did.
And it’s bad.
Really, really bad.
Cut to Chloe visiting Father Kinley in jail after screening his collect calls for too long.
At Chloe’s shocked expression, Kinley realizes that it’s not her, but she knows who is.
“Is she here?”
Then we’re back at Lucifer’s loft, where he stands and unfurls his wings for Linda.
His red leathery devil wings.
EPISODE 8: ‘Super Bad Boyfriend’
Trust Tom Ellis to make being a bad boyfriend look good.
Yet Chloe’s too distracted by Kinley’s prophecy to notice.
When she fills Lucifer in, he immediately agrees to break up with Eve.
(One might even get the sense that he was looking for an excuse, no?)
Nate says it was couples counseling, so Lucifer drags Eve to a sit-down on Dr. Linda’s couch.
They agree that Lucifer needs to face his issues head-on.
And what does Eve do?
And he’s stuck.
Amenadiel’s having a personal crisis, too, and starting to panic about fatherhood.
Thankfully, Dan arrives to flash his badge and de-escalate the situation for his friend.
Well done, understated, and important.
In his holding cell, Caleb tells Amenadiel to forget about him.
He’s a black drug dealer, and the murder weapon has his fingerprints on it.
“My life is over.”
But Amenadiel tells him to have a little faith and enlists Chloe’s help.
They eventually prove that Nate’s Harvard-bound girlfriend did it and framed Caleb.
As far as Amenadiel as a dad?
“You’re gonna crush it,” Caleb says.
You know who’snotcrushing it?
After Linda told her to find a partner, she threw herself into dating.
But she’s rejected her first 21 dates, including the nebbishy guy who calls her “m’lady.”
(That’s a mistake, dude.
The only person who can get away with that isGendry.)
Waiting for her 22nd date to show up, she bumps into Eve, who’s looking for Lucifer.
She realizes he’s trying to provoke a fight and has him tossed out.
That same night, Lucifer finally breaks up with Eve, tired of being something he’s not.
Then they’re interrupted with a terrible phone call.
It’s about Caleb, who’s dead from the bullets in his chest.
(Quick question: When’s the last time the crime storyline onLucifermoved you to tears?
For me, it was this moment in this episode.)
Chloe promises a wrecked Amenadiel that she’ll find the killer, but he already knows who did it.
Lucifer offers to drive.
After Amenadiel beats Tamir, he comes to a conclusion: Earth is no place to raise his son.
He finds Caleb in the morgue and places his necklace around the boy’s neck.
Then he visits Linda for perhaps his first real therapy session ever.
But will it be in time for him to set everything right with Chloe and the prophecy?
EPISODE 9: ‘Save Lucifer’
Did Lucifer’s honest-to-Devil epiphany in the previous episode help the situation?
Well, that depends.
Do you like your Lucifer in human or lobster form?
So she and Maze work the case and track down the suspect’s accountant.
There, Eve tortures Maze by practicing sexy poses for Lucifer.
They kiss as Lucifer and Chloe arrive, but it’s only real for one of them.
Eve is thrilled to earn a “well done” from Lucifer for her police work.
She’s covered all the bases!
Eve still hasn’t given up on her man, though.
So that’s Eve’s state of mind when she heads to the party.
), she nervously sings a gorgeous cover of “Wonderwall.”
Actually, he didn’t escape.
Seriously, is Dan in therapy?
Because Dan should be in therapy.
Then she cuts their session short because the angel-baby’s comin’!
Did I say earlier that comic relief Amenadiel was the best Amenadiel?
I might need to rethink that.
Eve’s also plotting.
When he turns to face her, his devil form recedes and his human self emerges.
Crisis averted, prophecy crushedor so he thinks.
But across town, dead Father Kinley’s eyes spring open.
I think we can.
And friends, they did that.
But Chloe says they have no current cases and sends him home.
This frees him up to visit the hospital.
LUCIFER IS HOLDING A BABY.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Amenadiel mentions facing a painful decision regarding Charlie, but Lucifer assumes it’s circumcision.
(He knows all the stats, naturally).
Then Lucifer turns up at Chloe’s newest murder scene, offended that she didn’t call him.
He spoke too soon.
She’s investigating the live-streamed murder of rapper Holla Bae but finds no body and copious blood.
Things may be frosty between them, but Maze isn’t going to let that stand.
You guessed it: Charlie’s missing.
She finally agrees to get some sleep and hands Charlie over.
She’d hired a night nurse, but the agency reported that the family called and canceled.
Lucifer connects the dots and realizes that Amenadiel wanted to take Charlie to Heaven.
As Linda processes this betrayal, Maze breathes, “I’ll kill him.”
Then Amenadiel shows up without the baby.
I APOLOGIZE, AMENADIEL.
Ella then calls with information about who contacted the agency and says everyone’s prayinger, pulling for them.
She needs to rely on it for strength to get through the bad times.
Yup, the demons are expanding their numbers.
He sneers that he doesn’t need her or Lucifer anymore and slaps her to the ground.
(Personal growth!)
They find his place trashed and Kinley’s vial missing from his safe.
Poor Eve: naive, thrill-seeking, and in love, but never malicious.
The trio put their heads together and figure out where the ceremony will take place.
A fight ensues, and in the melee, Eve’s able to slip out with the baby.
It’s gross, but Chloe’s impressed.
Then Chloe enters the building to double-check Lucifer’s okay.
She’s afraid oflosinghim, afraid that he’ll forget about Earth and about her.
That’s the impetus Lucifer needs to shift into his full Devil self.
His minions all kneel, and he orders them back to hell.
They collapse and obey.
… like she’s considering what a night with the most powerful creature in the room might be like.
I mean, am I wrong??
She kisses Maze goodbye and walks away barefoot to figure some things out.
Oh, I hope those two crazy kids can make it work!
They’re good together.
Other wrap-up character beats: Ella puts her cross necklace back on.
Dan looks wistfully at a photo of Charlotte.
Then we come to Chloe and Lucifer.
He has to return and be their king.
It’s exactly what Chloe was afraid of.
“hey don’t go,” she begs.
“I love you.”
He wipes away her tears and tells her that Eve wasn’t his first love.
“It was always you.”
Hail to the king, baby.
Finale grade: A
Overall season grade: A
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