Lucifer

Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy

Creator: Tom Kapinos

Rating: 3.0/5

Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles, the City of Angels. Lucifer, bored from his moody life in hell, comes to live in Los Angeles. While there, he helps humanity and do for social welfare with its miseries through his experience and telepathic abilities to bring people's deepest desires and thoughts out of them. While his meeting with a Detective in a nightclub (Lux), this is his own, a shootout involving him and the Detective leads him to become an LAPD consultant who tries to punish people for their crimes through law and justice.

Lucifer (Tom Ellis) is the devil. He's tired of Hell and takes a break in L.A. He's functioning his nightclub Lux with demon disciple Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt). His brother Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside) wants that he returns to Hell. When a celebrity who is superstar is killed in a drive-by, police detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) investigates. He finds himself abnormally attached to her and becomes a police consultant. He has the power to drag out a person's inner desires. She's divorced from fellow detective Dan Espinoza (Kevin Alejandro) and single mom to Trixie. Psychiatrist Linda Martin (Rachael Harris) can't keep her hands off of him. In the series, his mother Charlotte (Tricia Helfer) arrives with a program against his father and Ella Lopez (Aimee Garcia) is the new forensics investigator.

The Devil was sick of Hell, so he moved to Los Angeles and that is why he opened a nightclub, where he spends his days and nights living the motto "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll". Until he falls in love with the police detective Chloe and becomes her civilian consultant.  In series each episode brings a new case of murder that Chloe and Lucifer solve by combining her detective and his supernatural abilities, with Chloe not knowing that he really is the Devil. The murder cases are quite original, the ways they are solved are cleverly designed and interesting, and the mutual relations of the characters are entertainingly complex and imbued with great humor and they work very professionally. Over time, the series introduces more and more new characters and spiritual beings, but it succeeds in maintaining the level of development of characters and their interrelations, and not getting lost in exaggeration and excessive complicating. The characters are diverse, well developed and there's one for everyone's taste. Mazikeen, the main torturer in Hell and Lucifer's bodyguard, although they somewhat spoiled her in the series.

DC Entertainment has surpassed itself this time. "Lucifer" is so far the best DC series and do not understand why they decided to shut it down after just three seasons. Fortunately, Netflix has purchased the rights and in 2019 next season was release. This is happened due to a warm recommendation to fans of humorous, crime and supernatural series, because "Lucifer" is a perfectly balanced mix of these genres.

This series is based on a DC comic. It is a fun and supernatural police thriller. Most of the fun comes directly from Tom Ellis. He is utterly demonic fun. It's all him. Tricia Helfer is a terrific addition but this show really centers on Ellis. He's got the charm, and the playful discourtesy. He's best for the character. The show manages to add upon the police procedural format by bringing in some of the great story development.

The series humor, especially via Lucifer, is a big part of its appeal. Most of the good police procedural/duo shows include humor in their mix. Pairing a detective with the Prince of Darkness is, admittedly, a long way to go for the odd couple vibe, but it can also up the stakes an element of "Lucifer" that the series needs to exploit.