Everything's Coming Up Lucifer

Lucifer is a peculiar show. I don't think there are many elements of the episode that particularly bad, per se, but it is nevertheless bland. For such an intriguing subject - the psychology and mythology of the devil!! - Lucifer continues to deliver disposable week to week homicide cases which are unfortunately unimaginative and unoriginal. There's no denying that Tom Ellis is an amazing actor, but the source material he's provided with give him little to showcase his skills. This also brings me to another qualm I have with this series. There is no character or story development. The series is still beating the dead 'Chloe doesn't know Lucifer is the devil' horse, Lucifer's therapy sessions repeat the same cycle of 'Lucifer refuses to address his problems', and the same repetitive family issues between 'dad', 'mum'and Lucifer's 'brothers and sisters' are shamelessly recycled. At the end of season one, we were left with the knowledge that Lucifer's mother had escaped from hell. This episode took forty minutes of forgettable police jargon and predictable conversation and interactions between the characters to deliver a five second punchline (I call this a punchline, despite the fact the episode could have opened on this moment without a hitch because there was no real meaningful lead up to such a moment). Personally, I think that this may stem from the writers's unclear vision of 'Mum' as a character, or even a vision for the series's direction this season, which is unfortunate. As a comedic, fantasy cop-drama, the show is growing to be boring and unoriginal. As a show stemming from the genius of Neil Gaiman, not to mention the host of religious and cultural mythology surrounding the devil, episodes such as this, which have begun to comprise nearly the whole of the series, are almost unforgivable.

When, in my initial review, I stated that this show is "A light supernatural action Comedy", lots of people (including ...actual Devil worshipers!) argue that this is a serious TV show based on Milton's book "Paradise Lost" and it would be showing the power and the charm of true evil! Well, I hate to disappoint them again but in this 2nd season 1st episode, you get what it was obvious from the beginning...

So! There is a lot of humor in this episode. Most of it is based on the formula where Lucifer keeps telling everyone he meets that he is the Devil and his Daddy issues, but here and there, there was some clever joke that made some difference.

The main story and the connection between Chloe and Luci advances but slowly. Why he gets vulnerable if she is near him, is still a mystery! And there are a few songs and music beats into the mix.

If you watch for what it is (again a "A light supernatural action Comedy") you might actually find yourself enjoying the light humor and the music.

For this episode: 7.5/10

P.S. When I saw Amenadiel and Chloe together at the Lux, couldn't help thinking a joke myself: How do you call Amenadiel and Chloe together? ....Black & Decker !!!

What a great opening episode! So funny, I am loving Lucifer and Amenadiel working together, more please. Some really funny bits here too, laugh out loud funny. Tom Ellis was born to play this part, he is amazing. What an incredible voice Tom has, I loved the song and the montage at the end of the show. Can't wait to see how throwing mum into the mix takes the show forward. Roll on the next episode.

As a teen, I had to study the Christian Bible (King James Version) every single night. We went chapter by chapter, as a group, from Genesis to Revelations and then started over. So there isn't much I don't know about what is in there and what isn't, and this series, Lucifer, shows that the writers have done their homework!

They are taking poetic license to flesh it out in this storyline of the devil taking a vacation on Earth, and it's a lot of fun if you aren't superstitious about it! I am sure the title alone is terrifying for some! But for me, well, I have always felt sympathy for the fallen angels because, according to biblical scholars, there is no redemption for them. It just doesn't seem fair. Why are humans eligible for salvation up to their last minute of death--all they have to do is cry out to Jesus for mercy, right? Not so for Lucifer and the fallen ones.

And besides the eternal punishment, why is there no mention at all in the Bible of the heavenly mother? Is God a hermaphrodite?

Anyway, I am really laughing my guts out at this series because this concept of Lucifer in modern times is truly hilarious and very well done! But I'll warn you, there is a whole lot of shaking' going on, so brace yourself for a little guilty pleasure!

This was another really interesting episode and it's really coming together now and I feel that hopefully it won't be too long before somebody that Lucifer is close to will discover that he truly is who he says he is. But I have to say this... I really hate one thing about this entire series and that's the fact that a lot of the times when they choose classic rock songs as in this episode they chose All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix yet they didn't have the version by Jimi Hendrix. They had it by some guy I don't know who but I mean it was pale and vapid. Being a lover of classic rock of course I love the original artists and that's one thing that I appreciated about the series Supernatural is they always had the original artists and I don't know why on God's green earth they would not have the originals singing the music in this series because it would pack way more of an emotional wallop. Totally disappointing and the one flaw for me in the series.