We get an episode that actually moves the plot along and goes with this season this week and that’s a really good thing as we’re heading for the midseason break and nothing has actually happened…let’s dive in!
1. Sexy Monopoly
The opening shot definitely makes you think the title of this episode actually means what it actually means. That’d be fun right! Give you what you want right off the bat and then work backwards from there? There’s probably a name for those episodes, but I have no idea, anyway they’re always fun.
We get Lucifer on a rare night in here as he’s playing Monopoly with Chloe and Trixie and it honestly looks like he’s having a ton of fun. It’s a good framing for the episode, especially as Amenadiel makes fun of him for it later. I always think it’s cute for Lucifer to interact with Trixie. And it was good for Chloe to have something to do and this episode to be framed around her and Lucifer’s relationship again finally because this season has done her character no favors.
2. Case of the boring
The main case of the week of the episode centers around a computer programmer murdered in her apartment and her connection to this exclusive dating app. Lucifer tries to extrapolate why she’d be killed because she seems so “boring.” There are some odd bits throughout the whole thing. Chloe “doing” Lucifer insofar as trying to impersonate him to be a shallow girl going to one of the app’s exclusive parties and posing as “Lucinda” is bizarre, but the Barbie doll scene of Lucifer trying to teach her to be shallow is hilarious. If anything it works to showcase for Lucifer that people are holistic people, a lesson he semi-learns by the end of the whole thing.
You can see the killer coming from a mile away in the skeezy, egotistical app owner who we find out has swindled the woman who died out of her money since she built the app and the company. Her roommate who is trying to take pictures of the dead body is really odd. Do people really act like that? This show has just come to the point that the cases are derivative and don’t really matter, and honestly don’t make up the crux of the show anymore in some ways. They help teach Lucifer a lesson to feed his obsession or lens for the week that he immediately forgets the next week. They make Lucifer look dumber and dumber in some ways to. Least the subplots were better.
3. Charlotte’s back again and again
I honestly wasn’t expecting Charlotte to be a recurring character this season, I guess I should’ve looked into that more, but here she is this episode primarily interacting with Ella. She wants Ella to teach her to be a good person since she knows she’s destined for hell and has been and doesn’t want to go back. Ella trying to hide from her really doesn’t make that much sense, unless, you think about a few episodes ago when she was talking to Lucifer about the voices in her head. Maybe she can sense evil or feels drawn to correct it or something and sees the residual goddess stuff on Charlotte. Anyway, by the end we realize we’ll be seeing more of Charlotte as she’s taken a new job at the DA’s office being on the other side of the lawyer world, which I’m good with.
4. He flipped Oscar Wilde!
The other subplot is Linda planning the memorial for her ex-husband who we saw last episode reliving his hell. I’m curious if that means that all that stuff he’s reliving actually happened?…No idea. Also why is Linda planning the memorial and not his family? When did he die? How did he die (well I guess poisoned actually if we take last episode as fact). Anyway the timing and means of the episode are off, but what actually happens is good.
Amenadiel goes to check on Linda knowing she’s planning this memorial and she reveals on the beach that she really doesn’t care that Reese is dead; her bigger struggle is with being a mortal that is less ignorant than everyone else. That struggle seems really fun and genuine, and for Amenadiel to calm her down and saying nah you still know nothing, you just have different questions now is a good one. Weird zen guru Amenadiel is odd, and I hope he grows out of that, or like converts to a different faith tradition that’d be really fun and interesting. Hire me Fox, I’ll work for cheap.
Continued belowThe final therapy session where Linda quotes Oscar Wilde to Lucifer and Luci says he fed that line to him, and then says he flipped Wilde and slept with him is hilarious, and for Linda to accept there’s still so much she doesn’t know seems like a good move for her. Maybe Lucifer also fed him the,”Everything in the world is about sex, except sex, sex is about power,” line as well.
5. Top Hats and Shoes
The fun Monopoly banter this whole episode works. Lucifer wants to always be the top hat, he sort of realizes sometimes we have to be shoes and people who are always top hats are shallow and murder people they think are inferior but drop the gun in a stare down to save their art. Good one. Although he sleeps with a woman at the end of the episode with the shoe piece from the Monopoly game on his piano. He does ask her if there’s anything she’d rather do besides have sex. Maybe he’ll make some development? Who knows.
Sound off in the comments, and come back next week for an episode that seems to finally move the plot along titled the Sinnerman. Maybe Tom Welling will finally be back after a month.
