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28 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 9 Review: Family Dinner

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 9 “All I wanted was a nice family dinner.” After a nine month Covid-19 related hiatus, Lucifer returns to Netflix for the second half of its fifth season, and the family dynamic changes dramatically with the introduction of Dear Old Dad to the mix. Throughout the course of its run, the series’ writers have masterfully woven a crime-of-the-week drama into the fabric of the emotional turmoil the core characters, both celestial and mortal, experience in their everyday lives. “Family Dinner,” takes this narrative technique and sets into motion a series of…
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28 May

Lucifer: What Happened to Tricia Helfer’s Charlotte and the Goddess?

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This article contains pre-Lucifer Season 5b spoilers. Battlestar Galactica actress Tricia Helfer has predominantly played two different – but very memorable characters – on Netflix‘s fan favorite police procedural Lucifer, making her journey in the series a complex one. In season 2 of Lucifer, long before Fox cancelled the show and it was revived by Netflix, Helfer joined the cast as a defense attorney called Charlotte Richards, but Charlotte’s body was soon taken over by Lucifer’s mother, who originally co-created the universe with God. Long ago, Lucifer (Tom Ellis) had rebelled against God (Dennis Haysbert) over his love for humanity,…
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12 Sep

Lucifer Season 5: Devilish First Footage From Musical Episode Revealed

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The cast and crew of Netflix’s Lucifer have been hyping up Season 5’s forthcoming musical episode for months now, and the first clip doesn’t disappoint! Thanks to this weekend’s DC FanDome event, we’ve been offered a sneak peek of Lucifer (Tom Ellis), Chloe (Lauren German), Dan (Kevin Alejandro), and Ella (Aimee Garcia) all singing and dancing to ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Queen in footage from the tenth episode of Season 5, which is called ‘Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam’. Of course, it wouldn’t be Lucifer without a mysterious murder victim being the one whomst bit said dust, and during…
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04 Sep

Lucifer Season 5, Part 2 Sets September Production Return

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Netflix’s Lucifer may have recently premiered the first half of its split fifth season, but things have been stagnant behind-the-scenes ever since production was shut down due to the pandemic way back in March. That, however, is about to change, with the reveal of a solid date on which cameras will once again roll. Lucifer Season 5, Part 2 is scheduled to resume production at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank on Thursday, September 24. While a release date for the eight-episode Season 5B portion has yet to manifest, the production date, as reported by TV Line, provides a North Star…
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25 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 8 Review: Spoiler Alert

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 8 “Just to be clear, this is you breaking up with me, right?” It only took 75 episodes, but dear old Dad finally makes an Earthly appearance in the Lucifer mid-season finale, and hopefully, He’ll be able to suss out the details of Michael’s dastardly plan to bring down Lucifer. Directed by Kevin Alejandro (Daniel Espinoza) “Spoiler Alert” covers plenty of criminal territory, addresses personal grudges, and explores individual fears, but in the end, sends fans into the off-season feeling really good about what they’ve experienced and excited for what’s to…
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25 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 7 Review: Our Mojo

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 7 “Detective, I think you’ve stolen my mojo.” For the second episode in a row, Lucifer concludes with a dramatic cliffhanger that holds the potential to fundamentally change the base narrative. At its core “Our Mojo” intimately examines Lucifer and Chloe’s attempts to navigate typical new relationship pitfalls and ironically relearn how to work as a team, the past five years notwithstanding. Perhaps it’s the serial killer murder investigation coupled with the knowledge of what Dan witnesses at the end of the previous episode, but a darker tone permeates the events…
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24 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 6 Review: BluBallz

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. “I did go to Hell and back for you, twice, but who’s counting?” It seems I was a fool for love thinking that somehow Chloe’s relationship with Lucifer, incredible as it is, could forge smoothly ahead. With some of the strongest writing of the season, “BluBallz” finds Lucifer going face to face Chloe’s with romantic past when her first love turns up as the central figure in the murder investigation. However, it’s the thunderbolt at episode’s end that puts Dan in an extraordinarily difficult position and figures to jeopardize the couple’s burgeoning happiness. While Lucifer…
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24 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Soundtrack: Complete Details and Playlist

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Whether it’s the Devil sitting down at the piano in his penthouse or Lilith belting out a tune in a 1940’s club, music has always played an integral role in the Lucifer gestalt. With a full blown musical episode planned for the second half of season five, and the noir homage “It Never Ends Well for the Chicken” already in the books, it’s time to reflect on some of the fantastic musical choices showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich have made. Series lead Tom Ellis (Lucifer) has sung on multiple occasions during the show’s five year run, and in an…
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24 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 4: It Never Ends Well for the Chicken

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. “Why don’t you fellas go jerk yourselves a soda.” Lucifer star Tom Ellis teased early in the year that the series would feature a “full blown” musical episode late in its fifth season, one of many indicators that the writers planned to pull out all the stops in what was initially thought to be the show’s final run. Though it appears fans will have to wait for the second half of the current installment to experience this narrative divergence, showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich take another creative leap with the noir detective story “It…
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23 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 3 Review: ¡Diablo!

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 3 “Things have changed up in Heaven.” Workplace relationships in the real world typically prove challenging for all involved, and television writers continue to draw on the compelling conflicts that often arise out of these situations. The Moonlighting Myth has long been dispelled, and putting a television couple together doesn’t necessarily mean a show loses its edge and ultimately its audience. Good writing prevails.  That said, Lucifer may be heading down a path that’s been travelled too far, too long, and at this point in the series’ history, completely unnecessary. The…
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23 Aug

When Will Lucifer Return to Netflix for Season 5 and 6?

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If you weren’t keeping a close eye on the entertainment news machine on the run-up to Lucifer Season 5’s release on Netflix this August, you may have been a bit confused when you logged on to the streaming service for a proper Luci binge, only to discover that Season 5 had been split into two halves, and only 8 episodes were available to stream. Right up front, we’ll tell you that Netflix has NOT yet confirmed a release date for the back half of Season 5, nor has it indicated when the sixth and final season will arrive. You can…
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23 Aug

Lucifer Season 5: Aimee Garcia on Ella’s Boyfriend Trauma

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This interview contains spoilers for Lucifer season 5 Aimee Garcia was a late arrival to fantasy cop procedural series Lucifer in season two. The Chicago-born actress originally moved to L.A. in the early ‘00s to pursue an acting career after becoming dissatisfied with her job in finance, and she was soon picking up roles in Angel, Supernatural, Bones and a regular part in Showtime’s Dexter, before landing the part of Ella Lopez in Lucifer in 2016. The character was a breath of fresh air for the series – an upbeat, sharp, and tactile forensic scientist, Ella still kept a slightly…
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23 Aug

Lucifer: God Takes Charge As Dennis Haysbert Joins Season 5

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This Lucifer feature contains spoilers. It takes only mere minutes in the Lucifer pilot episode to recognize that things have changed in Heaven, in Hell, and most certainly on Earth. “Remind Dad that I quit Hell because I was sick and tired of playing a part in his play,” Lucifer instructs his sibling Amenadiel, and the Devil’s crime fighting journey with Detective Chloe Decker and the LAPD begins. Viewers are quickly introduced to Lucifer’s angelic brother (DB Woodside) and the leather clad demon Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt) providing insight into a family just as dysfunctional as any on Earth. And even…
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22 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 2 Review: Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here if you prefer. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 2 “You are different, but sometimes change is a good thing.” Though I’m generally not a fan of the doppelganger as a primary plot device, Lucifer takes a risk and trots out our titular hero’s twin brother in a story that gives the detective a chance to solve a case and pave the way for a welcome return to the status quo. The murder investigation takes a back seat to a crime of the heart perpetuated by the archangel Michael, but “Lucifer!…
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21 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 1 Review: Really Sad Devil Guy

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here if you prefer. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 1 It’s been over a year since the endearing Prince of Darkness last graced the small screen, but the fifth season premiere of Netflix’s Lucifer quickly reminds fans of the fantasy police procedural why they’re so inexorably drawn to the show. After last season’s devastatingly emotional conclusion, “Really Sad Devil Guy” brings back an old foe whose presence allows the Devil and the detective to take the first steps toward what viewers hope will be a short-lived separation. Lee (Jeremiah Birkett)…
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19 Aug

Lucifer Season 4 Recap: The Devil’s in the Details

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The following contains spoilers for Lucifer season 4. Lucifer is the rare show that didn’t reach its full potential until it was canceled. Always fun, supernatural camp, the show reached another level in season 4 following its move from Fox to Netflix. The first three seasons largely used Ellis’ ability to slip so easily and believably from semi-sleazy boundless cad to genuinely hurt lost child to raging demon to tell the story of the devil’s emotional development from the rejected and perpetually abandoned son of God (and Goddess) to (semi-)self-aware friend, partner, and potential (chaste) lover. In this, he was…
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19 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Part 1 Review (Spoiler-Free)

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This Lucifer review contains no spoilers. Lucifer had a long road to Netflix. After Fox cancelled the procedural comic book adaptation in 2018 for the crime of having a consistent fanbase of mediocre numbers, the streaming service picked it up in a shock acquisition, and its strong fourth season appeared to do quite well in its new home. Lucifer fans were convinced that the show and its stars, Tom Ellis and Lauren German, would be back for a triumphant fifth season, but more mixed news arrived instead: Season 5 was a go, but this time it would be Lucifer’s last…
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13 Jul

Lucifer Season 5 Trailer Teases Celestial Sibling Rivalry

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The trailer for Lucifer Season 5 has finally arrived, showcasing an array of epic events designed to serve as a bittersweet climax for the entire series—at least until Netflix went and renewed the series for Season 6 this past June. Regardless, the hell-spawned crime series—an adaptation of the Lucifer Morningstar character of Neil Gaiman’s imminently Netflix-show-spawning The Sandman comic book lore—now readies a return to Netflix with a 16-episode fifth season split into two parts, with the freshly-arrived trailer reflecting the impending release of the first eight.   On that note, check out the montage of monstrous mirth that is…
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