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1. No emotional fallout
Remember how Chloe was going to get married last episode? Yeah neither do the writers of this show. We open with the happy fun time of Charlotte and Dan’s new found happiness, which is great they deserve to be happy. Charlotte is having more hell loop dreams from her time in Hell which motivates her and Amenadiel to continue their quest for redemption. Again, these are all things I’m fine with. But the show never explores any of the Chloe and Pierce fallout, and in fact the only character he interacts with at all is Maze. It just seems odd that we had that detour and pretty much dismissed any sort of reactions Chloe and Pierce might’ve had, no awkward work encounters, nothing.
Instead what we do get is Lucifer being a creep, insisting he can make things “normal” by recreating events from his and Chloe’s past which is super odd and distracting in an episode that has many other, larger emotional beats. It also has a case about a celebrity killer/cheater/abuser played by one of the dads from Desperate Housewives. Lucifer is unable to process anything correctly, and it really makes parts of the end of the episode not work for me because of how extra he is. Like usual, there are a lot of good things about this episode, mostly side plot, but man it seems a weird follow-up.
2. Isn’t that illegal?
All right, so speaking of Charlotte, she gets most of the highlight this week. The case is really the Chloe/Charlotte show, which works for me. So Charlotte knows the husband is the killer, or a killer, due to shady lawyer stuff she did when she was younger and sets out to prove it. The thing that strikes me though is her and Amenadiel break into her old firm to steal files and an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) for this client and his mistresses, and apparently they haven’t changed their passwords but then . . . that’s how they get him? And I’m sitting here like, props to you for being a badass, but this is all illegal haha. Just add it to the list of weird legal system things this show does. Anyway, Charlotte’s great. Did I mention I like Charlotte?
3. Maze
Maze still can’t catch a break. The promo for this episode promised a death and I thought Maze might be it (but, alas, not quite). So she wants to kill Pierce, he gives her a better option with killing Amenadiel, she realizes she still cares about people, so she sets out to end Pierce which would have been just fantastic, but he one ups her in round 2 (how?) and knocks her unconscious.
I thought having Maze join Pierce’s crusade was a good move for her after she was alienated from everyone else, but she’s kind of been siloed off into this corner and I’m not sure where she goes from here. Maze deserves some redeeming, but that’s all the women on this show.
4. “Not to me.”
A season ago I wanted this. Now I’m just annoyed.
So Lucifer and Chloe kiss, and Lucifer tells Chloe in the moment that he’s the devil, and she says “Not to me.” It’s sweet, but after the weird annoying, idiotic, childish shit he’s pulled the back half of this season why does she like him at all? Also him seeing she can solve cases by herself is what does this? You knew that she’s solved plenty of cases without your help. I just…look if they can have a better relationship going forward, if she can see his wings and devil face next episode and accept it and we tell interesting stories if this show is renewed for a fourth season, it’ll be fine. But I haven’t been cheering for Luci for awhile, and at this point this is the worst kind of fan service.
5. You did good kid.
Dammit.
I’m gonna miss you, Charlotte. She got her redemption though taking a bullet for Amenadiel, and at least that felt sort of true. She was trying to be a good person, and in the end, she was. And then Amenadiel suddenly willed his wings back and carried her off to heaven. If he doesn’t ever come back I will be way more okay with this, otherwise it’s Charlotte’s death furthering his character development and that I’m going to have problems with.
But, damn, Charlotte was the best character on the show, the only one who had any sort of emotional arc or interesting character development all season and they had Pierce kill her in a weird I need to kill someone to get my mark back so Maze can kill me or I can die or I don’t even know what the hell his plan is at this point. Maybe the writers knew they’d done the most work with Charlotte, cause it’s definitely the death that hurts the most. Really wanted to see her and Dan in love. Gonna miss you Charlotte. You did good. Cheers.
And now we got a typical good cop/crooked cop showdown with Chloe taking Pierce down next week for the season finale. We’ll see you then. Sound off in the comments below.
