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In the first half ofLucifers fifth season, sins abound.
And if its a sin to close on a cliffhanger, this half-season is guilty.
Demon bartender Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt) didnt get Lucifers invite and stayed on Earth.
Lucifers brother Amenadiel (D.B.
Woodside), an angel, and the human Linda (Rachael Harris) had their baby, Charlie.
For those left on Earth, season five picks up two months later.
Really Sad Devil Guy: Gluttony
We open with gluttony.
Last we saw him, Lucifer was pressing gold bars into his hands and telling him to skip town.
He instead bought a yacht and got murdered for his troubles.
The episode slides between them hunting for clues Lucifer in hell, and Chloe in the City of Angels.
But what we really learn is that Lucifer is a glutton for punishment.
He communicates with Chloe via recently dead people, but refuses to go to Earth to save her.
Wait, but whos the guy who looks exactly like Lucifer swooping in to her rescue?
- This doppelganger is on Earth, but Lucifer remains in a hell of his own making.
Lust
Since the shows move to Netflix, the lust factor has been upped.
In short, they can now air footage of Tom Elliss butt.
In episode two, the man we are pretty sure is not Lucifer admires himself in the mirror.
He cycles through Lucifers catchphrases.
Does every body-swap episode include a naked mirror scene, or is this aBuffycallback?
As Chloe and Lucifer work on the case, the lust remains, though some spark is missing.
After Maze attacks Lucifer, he admits that hes Lucifers twin, Michael, in his inexplicable American accent.
We learn that where Lucifer can sense desire, Michael can sense fear.
Lusting continues apace when Lucifer and Chloe make a date to hook up.
The tension shatters with a gunshot: Chloe knows.
We close with Amenadiel admonishing Michael.
And then Gods favorite child flies down to hell to retrieve the prodigal son.
- Lucifer is back, and even damnation cant dull the lust factor of that accent.
Greed
We learn in this episode that Michael has been manipulating Lucifer since the dawn of time.
Rather than sussing out what people desire, Michael trades in fear.
Like Michael and Lucifer, desire and fear are two sides of the same coin.
Also, Lucifer is back, telling Chloe that he knew she was a gift from God.
She doesnt respond well.
Cut to the show within the show,Lieutenant Diablo!, a procedural rife with Hollywood greed.
She killed for her career, out of greed, but Chloe gets it.
After Dancers arrest, Michael pays his bro a visit.
Two Tom Ellises fight; the Devil wins.
Michael heads off to find Maze and put his plan into motion.
Michaels manipulations are all grounded in greed.
We dont know what he wants, but, like his Father, Michael works in mysterious ways.
In this flashback episode, Lucifer hasnt yet broken out of his king-of-hell rut.
Mazes mother Lilith, Adams first wife, is a 1940s lounge singer.
With the crew recast in noirish black and white, we hear Lucifer recount how Lilith gave up immortality.
In the end, Lilith decides to live as a human and gifts Lucifer her ring.
In effect, seeing Lilith relinquish immortality foreshadows Lucifers choice to live in the human world.
Detective Amenadiel: Wrath
Theres plenty of wrath to go around in episode five.
After learning that Linda abandoned her daughter, just as Lilith did, Maze hunts for Lindas child.
Stunned, Maze shatters the poster from the previous episode.
She can only express emotion through violent wrath.
Chloes simmering with something like wrath, too, as she processes the facts of her creation.
And Amenadiel unleashes some wrath of his own.
Its awesome in the Biblical sense so Godly it hurts to look.
After the nuns ex-fiance confesses to her murder, Amenadiel unveils his wings and tells him its all real.
Have faith, Hank, he bellows.
Lucifer and Chloe let go of their anger in the episodes last scene.
They kiss after Chloe realizes that Lucifer has chosen to be vulnerable.
Its a sweet end to an often-angry episode.
BlueBallz: Envy
This episode features a jealous Lucifer and Dan.
But for once, they arent envious of each other.
Chloe and Lucifers hookup is interrupted by a murder.
Chloes first love, a dude named Jed, or DJ Karnal.
Jed manipulates Lucifer into ignoring Chloe and plays on Lucifers jealousy to make a run at win Chloe back.
Cut to an elaborately costumed rave, a sting staged to lure the killer.
Michael then steals Lucifers phone and gets Dan to turn around at precisely the wrong moment.
Bam: Another mortal is in on the celestial secret.
As Linda tells Chloe, Lucifer is the oldest, most immature person in the world.
Lucifer, unaware that Dan has just seen him … au naturel … apologizes to Chloe.
Finally, those two get toknoweach other.
In the biblical sense.
In these final two episodes, Lucifer must get over that pride.
At first, it comes from his mojo, the ability to glean peoples desires.
When his desire Chloe is realized, his powers transfer to her.
He cant process sharing his gift.
Meanwhile, Ella and her boyfriend Pete share everything, even fluency in Klingon.
But Lucifers pride trains itself on a new target.
After Dan, at Michaels behest, shoots him, Lucifer swears revenge.
Not that the bullets did anything: Lucifer is invulnerable.
And Chloes pride is hurt; she knows that invulnerability means an emotional wall.
To be prideful is to think you know better than God.
The best way to get over that belief is some admonishment from the man upstairs.
And for the first time inLucifers run, thats what we get.
God has floated down to LAPD headquarters.
Will His visit put a stop to sin?
Judging by the Bible, probably not.
