Lucifer Season 6 Review: Netflix Series Greets Us With A Heavenly Farewell With Greatest Ending

Starring: Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro

Platform: Netflix

Ratings: 4.5/5 (four and half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

It was the year 2016, and on Fox a paranormal detective serial made its debut, as was the tradition of the networks at the time. And now, five years later, with the review of Lucifer 6 , we bid farewell to the adventures of the devil who lent himself to law enforcement consultancy, adventures that over time, thanks to the transition from Fox to Netflix , have become more and more biblical, adhering more – but always with a not indifferent dose of creative license – to Neil Gaiman’s cartoon plot which was based on the characterization of the lord of Hell imagined by the English poet John Milton. It is a journey that should have ended already with the fifth season, with these last ten episodes acting as a curious, exciting footnote.

Lucifer Season 6 Review: The Story

If you were passionate about the adventures of Lucifer Morningstar at first because of his work as a consultant for the Los Angeles Police Department, then you will be happy to know that this narrative strand, partially abandoned in Season 5 to focus more on the personal affairs of the Los Angeles Police Department. Lucifer, will make his return in Lucifer 6 , along with sessions with Dr. Linda Martin, thus characterizing it as a sort of return to origins .

However, the investigations will not only take place in our world, but also in the other. Something is changing: Hell has been without a keeper for a while, and the Throne of God is also currently vacant . Lucifer perhaps never seemed too convinced that he really wanted to take the place of his Father, also because, to do so, he would have to love all human beings in the world, which seems to be decidedly distant from his nature and his vocation. deeper.

Dr. Linda Martin could help him find the key to the problem, even if Lucifer finds it difficult to make such an important decision. Lucifer 6 shows us the inner conflict of this complex and multifaceted reinterpretation of the Devil: the protagonist feels on the one hand held back by his beloved ” detective ” Chloe Decker, from whom he does not want to part, and on the other pushed by his older brother Amenadiel to assume their responsibilities by sitting on the throne that he claimed and that to hand over to him so many of their brothers died.

The Review and Analysis 

Although Season 5 did not leave too many narrative strands pending, new ones are naturally introduced in Lucifer 6 , also to further stimulate the attention of the loyal viewers of the series. The problem is that 10 episodes are a bit ‘few to be able to develop each of these narrative lines in an exhaustive way . For example, it would have been interesting to see the character of Rory develop and characterize himself in a more profound way , who instead finds himself forced into a rather short period of time and that perhaps it would have made more sense to develop more.

Her personal history, the profound reasons for her character, the way she grew up and with whom, the subsequent developments of her life: all this is completely ignored, which therefore gives us a character that is certainly interesting, but whose characterization is decidedly (and unfairly) fragmentary. In this way, it is also evident that his presence in the story serves only to “lengthen the soup” by proposing a new narrative line, which, however, has not had time to develop adequately. Despite these problems, however, Rory is one of the reasons why, once you start watching Lucifer 6 , you will want to continue doing it : discovering details about this new character is in fact an excellent stimulus for the vision of the following episodes.

The first part of the sixth season of Lucifer can be considered a sum of everything we have seen previously, through episodes that are often quite linear but capable, even in small doses, of carrying on a horizontal plot that is not really so obvious .

The rhythm of events is generally good, despite some excessively subdued episodes, however absolutely not able to affect the overall quality of the show. The same action sequences of melee combat are pleasant, as always not present in large numbers, but capable of showing the action on screen very well. However, perhaps the greatest limitation of these first ten episodes lies in their almost self-contained nature, which leaves less space than in the past for possible particularly complex plot implications . The greatest danger remains in fact that of seeing how the saga will continue in the last block of episodes which, inevitably, will have to field numerous variables of a certain weight to arouse the interest of spectators again.

Waiting For The Throne

The fifth vintage of Lucifer it ended with the epochal clash between the protagonist and his twin Michael, at the end of which the fallen angel was declared the legitimate successor of God, retired in an unattainable parallel dimension. Some time has passed since then, and Mr. Morningstar is preparing to leave Los Angeles forever, even if he is not in a hurry: he still enjoys being as much as possible with his beloved Chloe, currently gifted with super strength (and therefore predisposed to previously impossible erotic feats), continues to interact with the police and occasionally goes down to Hell to reassure Dan, unable to return to Earth or ascend to Heaven because he has not solved the problems related to guilt. But this procrastination could have consequences: She notices phenomena that suggest the imminent end of the world, and then there’s a mysterious angel who is angry with Lucifer, claiming to be his daughter. This is theoretically impossible, given that angels cannot procreate (with the exception of Amenadiel who has been at the center of exceptional circumstances), but this twist could set off a new, ultimate challenge for the lord of darkness.

Goodbye Mr. Morningstar

In its own way, the end of the previous season was already perfect, with the epochal line ” Oh, my … me“and the most unexpected evolution for a protagonist who at the beginning of the series did not really want to know about divine and celestial matters. And it is difficult not to think of these ten additional episodes as a footnote, something absolutely not foreseen in the original plans. of the authors (the renewal came when only part of the finale was left to shoot, whose filming had been interrupted by the pandemic) Yet, there is something perfectly coherent in this short continuation that delves into that unexpected twist with very logical considerations – why, once the initial enthusiasm has passed, would Lucifer die of the desire to occupy the throne in Heaven? It is also the perfect excuse to indulge one last time with stylistic ideas and interesting themes, fromHanna-Barbera-style animated interlude in an episode that reconnects to the pilot (hilarious when the devil discovers he is genital-free in two-dimensional form) to the relationship between Mazikeen and Eve which becomes complicated when Adam (yes, that Adam) returns to the scene), reinterpreted as the first emblem of toxic masculinity.

But above all it is the ideal opportunity to spend some more time with the main characters, and in particular with Lucifer and Chloe, whose relationship has always been the strongest element of the series, even in the initial phase where everything was subjected to the logic of procedural programs (and it is no coincidence that the title of the grand finale explicitly refers to their complicity). A relationship that followed the logic of classical seriality (the so-called will they / won’t they) but with an ironic smile on his lips, contrasting the cynical rationality of the policewoman with the cheerful and hedonistic egotism of the fallen angel. The ideal, in fact, once these new episodes have been viewed, is to go back, at the beginning of the show, and review everything, to appreciate again the work done on their relationship, a constant of quality within a serial mechanism that, in the transition from linear television to streaming, has found the right dimension in which to exist. A biblical and at the same time very human dimension, which with humor and intelligence has been able to make the archetype of the devil even more charismatic than usual.

Lucifer Season 6 Review: The Last Words

We close the review of Lucifer 6, the final season of the Fox serial passed to Netflix. After the divine twist of the previous year, the series bids us the final farewell with intelligence, humor and pathos, reminding us once again how the central component was the beautiful “human” relationship between the two protagonists.

What Worked

• The stylistic ideas remain hilarious and spectacular.
• The twists and turns follow one another with intelligence and precision.
• The grand finale does not disappoint expectations.

What Didn’t Worked

• We will be sorry not to find Lucifer, Chloe and the others in the years to come.