Lucifer
6/10
The
first season of Lucifer on Fox wrapped up and I didn't realize it. I
was waiting to watch it and some other show debuted which if course
made me go “Only on Fox!” thinking it was already canceled or
doing like The Flash and taking a month off in the middle of the
season. This wasn't the case. Its been green-lit for a second season
which is cool. I wrote about the pilot a while back (click here to check that out) and other than one actor being switched the cast is
pretty much the same and sadly so is the basic premise of weird guy
helping solve crimes. That is a thing on too many shows now. Someone
gets murdered and no one can figure out why until Captain Asperger
appears.
Tom
Ellis is great as Lucifer Morningstar. That was not changed. They
have shown a bit more about what he was up to in Hell and his missing
wings which explains the scars on his back. He has started to lose
his ability to be invulnerable when he is around his partner Chloe
which added a new element to his character I enjoyed. I am digging
his ability to get people to say their deepest desires whether they
want to or not except for his partner. Speaking of which...
Chloe
Decker played by Lauren German confuses me sometimes. There have been
scenes on the show where she will be a completely different person.
One time I had to rewind an episode to see if I missed something
because she was being a total dick and then the next thing you know
acting all sweet towards him. This isn't when she was drunk. That
episode was stupid. I get that they were trying to show he won't fuck
drunk girls but there had to be a better way than having this single
mother show up drunk at Lucifer's bar and throwing herself at him
like that.
D.B
Woodside has thankfully been given a personality. In the first few
appearances he was too T-1000 and just a strict goon. His actions get
more and more desperate as the series goes on and culminates in a
storyline that went on for too long and was not that interesting to
me. He brought a cop back from death that was part of a murder that
wrecked Chloe's reputation and that got her baby daddy more involved
and it spun out of control for too many episodes. I was like “Just
kill this asshole!” Take whatever jail time you have to because the
opposite (being blackmailed, kidnapped, your family held hostage) is
not worth it.
Lesley-Ann
Brandt plays Mazikeen aka Maze. I like her character and wishes she
was involved more. She was used for a fuck toy for a while and it
bugged me because she is a powerful ass demon that works at a bar
just to be around Lucifer and here she is turning on his, joining the
angel, then being a double agent for Lucifer, only to want them to
kill each other. Fully aware she looks like the women I complained about during my Powers review.
If I
had known that there were only 13 episodes in the season I would have
been more upset about the fact that perhaps five were ones that I
felt were wasted. I'm tired of Chloe being skeptical of Lucifer's
powers. She saw him do something on tape that can not be explained.
She saw him get shot and not get hurt (yeah, I know he did when she
shot him but that's for unknown reasons). He's vanished like Batman
in a room full of people. Accept he is magic! And please, for the
second season, please stop using every song you can find with evil or
the devil in the lyrics. I got tired of it during the pilot and it
continued in every episode.
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