Yahoo News Four Reasons To Watch Lucifer
In DC/Fox’s newest supernatural dramadey Tom Ellis plays the devil Lucifer Morningstar, who decides he’s sick of life in hell and comes above ground for some fun - and a holiday. He moves to Los Angeles where he’s successfully ‘working’ as a club owner, but the series focuses on his second job, helping a detective solve murders and crime. He finds an unlikely thrill from the job, but that’s probably because he’s got nothing better to do.
If the show’s premise sounds absurd. It’s ecause it is - but that’s why you need to give it a watch. Lucifer is one crazy, strangely additive and entertaining joy ride, complete with Ellis’ snarky lines and corny devil puns.
For those who have yet to catch up on the show, here’s four very good reasons why you should.
Tom Ellis
The casting of Lucifer is absolutely perfect. British actor Tom Ellis, best known for his role in Miranda, has is charming and playful, exactly what you’d expect from the character. Lucifer prances around Los Angeles doing as he pleases without thinking about the repercussions - this is his holiday, after all. He spends most of the season telling his ‘partner’ Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) that he really is the devil but she naturally doesn’t believe him.
It’s a police procedural
You’d immediately categorise Lucifer as being a supernatural series but actually, it’s not. It’s more of a police procedural thanks to Lucifer’s second job. He uses his special talents (his immortality and ability to bring out people’s forbidden desires) to help Detective Decker catch some of the seediest criminals across LA. It plays out like any other police procedural but using this format disguises the absurdity of the story line (a stranger who claims he’s the devil is given unlimited access to the LAPD…). Oh, the irony of a bad guy catching the criminals.
Lucifer has a therapist
Yes, it probably sounds ridiculous, but Lucifer has a therapist. Dr. Linda Martin (Rachael Harris) is the ‘voice of reason’ character who Lucifer goes to to figure out his problems. And he tells her everything. But that’s only because of his powers of persuasion, which he uses to his advantage as she’s paid for her sessions through sexual favours. That’s how crazy this show is.
The show is based on a DC comic
Lucifer Morningstar was originally introduced in Neil Gaiman’s wildly popular cult series The Sandman, ruling hell with Beelzebub and Azazel. The character later gained his own spin-off series, which the show is based on. Like in the comic book, Lucifer runs a LA piano club called Lux and the show explores the ideas of free-will, human desire and sin, all while having fun with the devil.
Lucifer is currently available on Amazon Video and iTunes.
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