Lucifer Season 1 - Review

Lucifer season one premiered in January of 2016 with a season finale airing in April, sporting 13 episodes in total. Directed by Len Wisemen and written by Neil Gaiman, Lucifer is a loose adaptation of a comic book released by DC around the late 80s, early 90s.

As the comic books were also written by Neil Gaiman, the series, although loosely based on the comic books, is still pretty similar to the one released in the Sandman series. The series stars Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar, Laren German as Detective Chloe Decker, Kevin Alejandro as Dan Espinoza, D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel, Rachael Harris as Linda Martin, among other notable characters. 

The series revolves around the devil himself, Lucifer Morningstar, and how he has had enough of hell and decides to go to Earth and live among humans in Los Angeles.

In the first episode, an acquaintance of Lucifer’s dies and he is automatically connected to the LAPD and meets Detective Chloe Decker, and is attracted to the idea of punishing people on Earth, which makes him question whether he is now on the “good” side.

The pilot is pretty intriguing, and Tom Ellis plays a very convincing devil as he tricks people into telling them their deepest darkest desires. Dan Espinoza, or as Lucifer calls him “Detective Douche” is not a fan favorite as his acting, either intentionally or unintentionally, makes him seem like quite the douchebag, especially with the way he treats Chloe.