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Five Thoughts on Lucifer‘s “Who’s da New King of Hell”

By | July 15th, 2019
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The devil is back! After three seasons on Fox, Lucifer has made his new home on Netflix with a shorter ten-episode fourth season. And we have arrived at the end. Although this is not the end-end, Netflix has announced this show is getting one more season after this that will be its last, this is the season finale of Netflix’s first devilish endeavor. So how did they do?

Surely you watched this episode weeks ago, but if you haven’t, if you’ve been slow and steadying it, I applaud you. But now it’s time to stream the season finale and then come back and read the brilliant things I have to say. We’re at the end of a road of a season of self-discovery, and everyone has learned a little bit about themselves, and now it’s time to say goodbye. So let’s do just that and dive in!

1. Everything’s good again?

So this episode opens with a musical number? And then it just kind of transitions right into the episode like none of that actually happened as Lucifer sits on Chloe’s desk and we just kind of pretend that Lucifer and Dan didn’t just do the Dirty Dancing move. Hrmmm. It’s well-choreographed and fun, and just showcases that this show should be using as much of it’s musical talent as it can literally all the time. But it strikes a really odd tone, and makes for a dissonant beginning, especially as the stakes seem so high as the episode continues. But it’s meant to symbolize what Lucifer says to Linda: He’s cured.

Lucifer thinks he’s entirely over all his mental health problems, and gives Linda Sigmund Freud’s actual journal as a parting thank you (which might’ve been the funniest bit in the episode). She’s a bit skeptical, but he swears he’s forgiven himself and everything is back to normal. But there’s very rarely normal for the devil I’d imagine. And, since he’s truly changed, that means there’s decisions to make.

2. “Kinley’s Hail Mary”

So everyone gets back to work, there’s a dead rapper who ends up not-so-dead. Turns out that Eve’s killing of Father Kinley has caused him to return as the demon Dromos, who kills rapper Holla Bae to get his friend Squee on Earth as well, who we’re told are not exactly the brightest. They show up at Lux ready to get their king back to hell in true comical fashion. Only this show can manage to turn demon possession and the furthest its taken its premise into a joke. This is not to say that this episode is bad, it’s just not at all the episode I as expecting when last episode teased a resurrected Kinley. I will say Graham McTavish pulls a great turn from priest to possessed demon you buy him as a new character.

Anyway, Lucifer rejects the demons and tells them to get the hell back to…hell, but makes mention of Baby Charlie. Oops. Lucifer tries to seed hell to Dromos, but as Dromos reminds him, hell can only be ruled by an angel. And a half angel could do the trick. This leads to a complete shirking of Kinley’s plan to get Lucifer back to hell, and the demons are now on the warpath to kill Charlie and install him as king with Dromos as regent. They murder a few more humans, betray Eve (who does not come out great this episode), and get ready for the final showdown. Oh and Dromos eats the communion wafers like candy, cause more laughs, but honestly this might be the most sacrilegious thing the show’s done so far? I dunno, I laughed. Anyway.

3. A CW showdown

The devil, an angel, a demon, and the first woman walk into a club to fight some demons with rock music in the background. Tell me that doesn’t sound like the premise to an episode of a CW show.

The way this whole scene of Lucifer, Amenadiel, Maze, and Eve (with Chloe waiting in the wings outside so that Lucifer won’t be vulnerable) is shot just reminded me of something on that network. Or Freeform. There’s a lot of wide shots, and the fight choreography is just really sort of limited and subdued? It’s supposed to be big and important, but kind of feels small and lacking in some respects. Parts of it reminded me of like a B horror movie too (See: Eve stabbing her stiletto heel through a demon’s head). Even when Chloe rushes back in when things are already over only for it to be revealed that things are absolutely not over played into that. The way the other demons that Dromos and co. created (from the congregation of the church they were at earlier in the episode no less) are holding her back and looking to Lucifer matched that tone. This is the most network television this show has felt while also playing with concepts that Fox probably would be less ok with. But Lucifer and Chloe have their mandatory cute moment, Lucifer goes full devil and everyone is back to hell, and Chloe smiles, because she accepts him for he is. Red wings and all.

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4. “I would never ask you to change Eve”

Eve makes it out of the building with Charlie, hands him off to Amenadiel, and has a little moment with Maze. Poor Maze. And really poor Eve. She has her revelation (late) that she was doing with Lucifer what she did with Adam, and trying to be someone she’s not to please him. This only played up both of their worst tendencies. She liked who she was in the garden with Lucifer, because he gave her freedom, but they were both so different now that the relationship didn’t work the second time around.

All of this comes out kind of weak, especially as Eve has had this backslide into serious obsession with Lucifer, even to the point of killing Kinley and helping to set the demons on Charlie. I loved Eve so much in the beginning of this season, that to see her just reduced to doing bad things to get her man back felt a little like a waste and a reduction of her as the stronger character she was when she was introduced. She also gets off without any punishment? Her and Maze let Kinley out of jail and she killed him, and I realize we’re dealing with the supernatural here but…

Anyway she leaves Maze to go on a journey of self-discovery finally, even after everyone else this season has self-discovered in place, and tells her she’ll come back. All this after Maze tells her she’d never ask her to change. They would be so cute together, and even though Eve got the short end of the story-stick come season’s end, I hope she comes back next season in some capacity. At least to give Maze a happy ending.

5. White wings flapping on the throne

Everyone gets a few minute send-off here at the end in true season finale fashion. Ella puts her cross necklace back on after rethinking that maybe God’s not here to give us everything we want, but to give us something to turn toward when things aren’t going our way. Dan finally has a good cry over Charlotte and does something useful with his anger. We also get some foreshadowing of him and Ella maybe having a real thing. Linda and Amenadiel get Charlie back and Linda says maybe they should take him to the Silver City, but Amenadiel has finally decided that they’re both going to take care of him here on Earth. And Lucifer and Chloe share another moment.

Lucifer tells her he has to go rule back in hell again. He doesn’t know for how long or what, but now that the demon’s know they can get to Earth, he has less authority over them, and Dromos will have spread that he has no intention of returning to hell, he has to go. He’s gotta protect everyone. She begs him not to go, she says she loves him, he says he loves her too and that she was his first love not Eve. It’s all cute and heartbreaking stuff. He gets ready to take off and has his white angel wings back, not the scary red ones, and we end with him on the throne over his kingdom.

They’ve had a few of these moments so far, but this has been the most direct of them confessing their feelings to one another. It’s been quite a journey for them too, and that whole scene just feels good and right. He’ll have to come back to Earth in some capacity, though I’m not sure how at this point. Guess we have a season to look forward to then for Lucifer and the Detective to get their (possibly) happy ending.

And that’s it folks. Ten episodes later we are done with another season of Lucifer, and while there were a couple of dud episodes, overall, this was the strongest season to date. I’d have to go back and watch season one again, which was the best before this, but with how streamlined this story was, while still somewhat maintaining the case-of-the-week angle, this season was solid. I had a great time watching and reviewing it, which is not something I said at all hardly during season three. I’m excited for the end.

What did you think of this season finale? Of this season overall? Are you looking forward to the fifth and final season? Sound off in the comments below, and we’ll see you a year from now at the end again!


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