Lucifer Season 6 is an Ode to Deckerstar

Warning: This review contains spoilers for the entirety of Lucifer Season 6.

Lucifer Season 6 is essentially round 2 of the final season, and the series decides that it isn’t going to waste this opportunity. Unfortunately, this means that Lucifer tries to do a lot of things with these 10 episodes, and it doesn’t all work as well as it should.

All in all, this is a bit of a mess of a final season, and it’s hard to decide if it is a mess that works to the series’ benefit or if it’s a detriment to the absolute highs that Season 6 hits.

Because when Season 6 is good, it is absolutely fantastic.

First and foremost, Season 6 is an ode to Deckerstar. The beginning of the season finds Chloe and Lucifer working unusual cases, and it’s a lot of fun to see how their partnership works when they don’t have the official titles of Detective and Consultant.

Chloe trying to investigate without a badge on Lucifer Season 6 Episode 1, “Nothing Ever Changes,” is so cute, especially since Lucifer is trying not to get involved in police business anymore. And then, there’s the two of them working together in hell, and we get to see how Chloe can help Lucifer out with the hell side of things.

We finally get to see how Chloe consulting for him would work, and it is a nice bit of foreshadowing to the end of the series with Lucifer and Chloe spending eternity together saving lives in hell (in an exact replica of Linda’s office). This is the absolute perfect ending for them — partners forever.

For a lot of TV couples, them being together and in love is all you ever need.

However, if Lucifer and Chloe lived separate work lives and simply spent their evenings and weekends together, something would be missing. It wouldn’t be enough. This is why them spending eternity working together, helping people, is the best ending we could’ve asked for.

We have to take a moment to praise Lauren German. She does the best acting this season that she’s done all series. She’s absolutely phenomenal.

Chloe: Dan, you were an amazing man, a great cop, an incredible father. Listen, can I tell you something? At first, I blamed myself for what happened to you, but then I realized, God, at least I got to be there when you died. But Dan, ever since you’ve been gone, I’ve felt so powerless.

Dan: Listen, there’s something you need to know, ok? You’re right, Trixie is strong, but it’s not because of me. It’s because of you, and you don’t need some silly necklace to give you strength. You’re the strongest woman I’ve ever met in my life.

It’s unclear what sparks this, maybe it’s giving her the space to delve into her grief of losing Dan, or perhaps it is her going through all the emotions tied to meeting your future child. Whatever the case may be, German shines during Season 6.

Tom Ellis has always done a marvelous job as Lucifer, and he continues to do so during this final season. We’re able to see a different side of Lucifer, especially once Rory enters the picture and he is forced to deal with a myriad of emotions while also trying to win Rory over.

Another highlight of the season is Lucifer saying goodbye to everyone on Lucifer Season 6 Episode 9, “Goodbye, Lucifer.” It is everything I could have ever wanted from this show. We get emotional moments between Lucifer and all of his loved ones, and those moments leave you sobbing.

During all of his farewells, Lucifer shows how much each person means to him, and he’s completely sincere and genuine while he does so.

It’s impossible to pick a favorite moment, but his chat with Maze is particularly emotional since she actually tears up during it. Maze doesn’t cry often, and when she does, it instantly hits you in the heart, making it impossible for you not to cry as well.

And then there’s Dan. We’re able to get closure by watching him work through his guilt and make his way to heaven. It would have been awful if we had to end things knowing he is in hell.

Despite the fact that Dan is talking to Trixie in the body of the man who murdered him (hopefully Trixie never learns the specifics of her dad’s death), their conversation is beautiful and incredibly emotional. It’s satisfying that we witness just how well he raised Trixie in their final chat.

Okay, now it’s time to get into the messiness of Lucifer Season 6.

There’s sadly quite a bit we could talk about — Adam’s toxic masculinity, the corruption storyline that gets really intense and then vanishes — but the biggest issue is Rory.

To be honest, it’s hard to decide what to make of Rory. Time travel is a crazy thing to just throw into this final season under the umbrella of self-actualization. Yes, Lucifer has its wacky moments — as Lucifer Season 6 Episode 3, “Yabba Dabba Do Me,” proves — but time travel is a bit too outside of the realm of this show.

Rory does give us some wonderfully emotional moments between her, Chloe, and Lucifer. We get to see a totally different side of Lucifer as he tries to bond with Rory and convince her that he loves her. She brings a bit more heart to the final season.

Part of the issue with Rory is that she comes back to yell at him for abandoning her and Chloe, and then she is responsible for his disappearance. It’s too much time-travel weirdness.

Then saving her is the “final battle” of the season/series, and it is the most random thing. Chuck from Supernatural — sorry, Vincent — suddenly develops this huge vendetta against Lucifer and manages to subdue a half-angel and almost kill Chloe.

There’s no build-up here. It’s so sudden, and you are scratching your head trying to make sense of it all. On top of that, Rory’s kidnapping forces the show to go into this super intense and dramatic showdown, which is a drastic tone shift that doesn’t feel earned.

The question remains if all of this is really necessary for a final season. And that’s the part I’m struggling with because while we end up with the perfect ending for Lucifer and Chloe, the road there is a bit too bumpy and all over the place.

Lucifer Season 5 sets up a redemption arc for Lucifer, and the season naturally progresses to this final battle. There’s not a natural progression during Season 6. And also, it is a little weird that Lucifer undoes a good bit of Season 5 by deciding he no longer wants to be God.

Don’t get me wrong, I never bought that Lucifer wanted to be God in the first place — Amenadiel was always the obvious choice — but Lucifer’s decision and Amenadiel actually becoming God makes a lot of Season 5 pointless. And when you reflect back to Season 5, it doesn’t sit right that Season 5 was supposed to be the end.

It feels disingenuous to the characters now.

Neither Lucifer nor Amenadiel undergoes huge, life-altering moments during Season 6 that make either of them change their minds. That would have made this course correction a bit more forgivable, but that’s not what happens.

Lucifer simply thinks through the God decision a bit more carefully, as he should have in the first place. Rory doesn’t really factor into this decision, so you can’t even claim that she helps him see that he shouldn’t be God.

Then, Lucifer and Chloe each help convince Amenadiel that he has always been the right man for the job, and that he can be God while also visiting Earth a bit more frequently than his father did.

Basically, all of this could’ve happened, and should have happened, last season. Lucifer and Chloe saving souls in Hell and Amenadiel taking over as God is the perfect ending, and it’s upsetting that it only happened because the show got a second chance at a final season.

Stray Thoughts

• Carol is a fantastic addition to the show.
• Does Chloe get special celestial powers now that she’s consulting with Lucifer in hell?
• Amenadiel’s glee at Charlie getting his wings is so cute in a dad way.
• If I were Ella, I would’ve reacted the same way after discovering the celestial truth.
• Linda writing a book on Lucifer’s sessions is highly unethical, which should’ve been addressed.
• I wish we could’ve seen Rory pop down to hell at the end to spend time with her parents.

What did you think of the final season of Lucifer? Are you happy the show got a second chance at a final season, or do you prefer Season 5? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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