Faced with the success of Lucifer, Netflix granted him a 6th and final season to end in style the adventures of the Lord of the Underworld. Are these new episodes up to the task? Be careful, spoilers.
Be careful, spoilers. It is advisable to have seen Lucifer season 6 before continuing to read this article.Very popular series on Netflix, Lucifer ended on September 10 with a sixth season of ten episodes. Saved by the platform after its cancellation by Fox at the end of its season 3, the series created by Tom Kapinos has since avoided the flames of hell thanks to the enthusiasm of the fans. While it was due to end after its fifth season, Netflix finally gave it a little respite with a final burst of episodes.
The writers therefore had to modify the scripts at the end of season 5 to stretch the story over ten more episodes and it shows. If Lucifer has the merit of having a real conclusion and a happy ending that will delight fans of the romance between Morningstar (Tom Ellis) and Chloe (Lauren German), it was still time to say goodbye to the Lord of the Underworld.
A moving season 6 but without flames
Season 6 begins with a nice nod to the pilot of the series, with Lucifer being once again arrested by the police in a car in the streets of Los Angeles and realizing how far he has come since he teamed up for the first time with Chloe.
Throughout the series, winks, flashbacks, guests and memories have been distilled to please fans and it works. Lucifer has gained in emotion, depth and quality over the seasons but we see that these new episodes go around a bit and do not bring anything new to the characters, who backtrack for the umpteenth time in certain aspects, before to finally reach the end of their evolution.
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We feel that the writers had to bring some problems to fill the ten episodes and they had recourse to scriptwriting facilities, in particular the arrival from the future of Rory (Brianna Hildebrand), the daughter of Lucifer and Chloe, come to take revenge on her father and prevent further complications.
Charmed and Flash had already done us the trick of children from the future so for originality, we will come back. And that's what is sorely lacking in this sixth season of Lucifer: surprise. We anticipate all the twists and turns, the twists and turns, the problems and even the resolutions that the characters face. It was evident that Lucifer would remain in the Underworld and Amenadiel would become God.
The rapprochement between Ella (Aime Garcia) and Carol (Scott Porter) lacks flavor and passion, the coming of Adam is quite banal, the questionings of Lucifer, Amenadiel (DB Woodside) and Chloe are too flat and the The start of an apocalypse could have been taken even further to fuel the sense of urgency about Lucifer's decision to become God or not.
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The only sparks of this sixth season are brought to us by Maze (Lesley Ann-Brandt) and Eve (Inbar Lavi), always so hot and funny, just like Dan (Kevin Alejandro), hilarious as a ghost stuck on Earth who seeks his way to heaven. We also regret the absence of the evil twin Michael and God (Dennis Haysbert), if only a vocal appearance.
Despite everything, the sixth season of Lucifer offers some moments of dazzling, always with a pinch of musical or animated spectacle (a very good idea!), And effective sequences of emotion. Above all, it offers a real end, consistent on top of the market, and satisfactory for the fans, who will have plenty of time to relaunch themselves in the series' marathons, who will have taught us to have sympathy for the Devil.
