Lucifer season 3 episode 11

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Hello. Happy New Year, everyone!

I will be back later with a more general post, but in the meantime, here's a review of the latest Lucifer episode.

So, Lucifer came back (just for one week, there's no more, apparently, until January 22).

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It also went back, in that this entire episode was a flashback to when Lucifer first came to Los Angeles and decided to defy his father and stay. It ended with Mazikeen cutting off his wings.

In between, was a great warring brothers/bromance-y episode featuring Lucifer and Amenadiel and their (at times) rather slapstick adventures trying to retrieve Amenadiel's stolen necklace (the one that turns out to be part of the flaming sword at the end of season 2). In the meantime, Chloe, still a uniformed officer, is running her own investigation of a related murder, despite Dan's attempts to dissuade her (which were very consistent with the way he behaved in season 1).

It was all really cleverly done, I thought, filling in gaps without contradicting what has gone before. Except maybe in the case of the meeting between Chloe and Charlotte Richards (pre-Mum), because Chloe showed no sign of knowing who Charlotte was when she turned up at the beginning of season 2. That apart, though, it was great. Loved it, especially all the Lucifer/Amenadiel stuff.

This was the last of the season 2-made standalones. They've all been wonderful in their different ways. But - though I'm enjoying season 3 anyway - I really, really want an episode made this season to be as wonderful as this was. I'm just afraid that's not possible while Tom Welling is part of proceedings.

Oh well. ;)

One small thing, there wasn't really any explanation as to why the murderer stole Amenadiel's necklace in the first place. Never mind.

Comments

[ex_peasant441]

I felt the acting was really top notch in this one. I loved how Ellis managed to so demonstrably blend the vicious and fun sides of Lucifer's personality.

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Yeah, he's pretty good at that. ;)

[yourlibrarian]

I meant to come back to this when I saw the episode and then got sick and forgot. Yes, I was somewhat surprised at Charlotte's appearance and I thought it was also a scene that didn't play out very smoothly. But it's the sort of Lucifer & Amenadiel episode we have rarely gotten so that was a real plus. And it was definitely interesting to be taken back to the beginning in different ways. One of the better eps, I'd say.

Re: the necklace theft, I think the killer wanted to make the shooting seem random hence the theft, making it seem like a mugging.

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Re: the necklace theft, I think the killer wanted to make the shooting seem random hence the theft, making it seem like a mugging.

Yes, that's the conclusion I reached on re-watching. He was a very stupid thief/murderer, though. He pretty much sent the police in the direction that was going to lead them back to him.

Not that I really care. The procedural parts of these episodes are just background as far as I'm concerned.

The Lucifer/Amenadiel stuff was great. I do hope we get a bit more of it - though if Amenadiel wants to reconcile with Lucifer he's going to have to stop banging on about how much Lucifer has changed and how pleased Dad will be about it.