Aside from Deckerstar (BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY OMG) what do you like most about Lucifer?

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Oh my heavens, so much???

I adore the humor and the way they’re endlessly aware of all the ridiculous possibilities to play Lucifer off (which Tom Ellis does so wonderfully, whether it’s Lucifer being Captain Inappropriate or Lucifer breaking down at the piano and slaying our feelings, and everything in between). I’ve said before I love how they tackle the questions of evil and belief and God’s existence and free will and choice and human morality, without ever being preachy or boring about it. They’re subversive but also respectful and that’s really hard to pull off well and to be complex and engaging about it and yes?

The writing is really smart and really tight and rarely misses a beat. Yes, they’re solving a crime-of-the-week in between whatever larger stuff is going on, but I enjoy that too. I love them as a kick-ass odd-cop team and the way they have learned to trust each other and the way Chloe just goes with his weirdness by now and relies on it. I love how they set the tone in s1 and then kicked it into emotional high gear with the wing episode; 9-13 was nothing but bombshells and amazing character moments, and now we’re only 6 episodes into season 2 and DAMN it’s taken us from broad-comedy Devil-in-LA to this deep and crushing and really compelling exploration of Lucifer’s character and where he can possibly go from here and just???

Also, the supporting cast. I love pretty much everyone?? I love that in s1, Lucifer and Linda’s relationship was played more or less for laughs, look at him sleeping with her because she’s thirsty and he always ignores her advice. But they’ve stuck with that and allowed Linda to be the one to decide to END it, and in the last episode when he drunkenly made a move on her, she very forcefully shut him down. Now she’s been the first one to see his real face and she gets to seriously deal with that and the consequences.

Same with Maze. In S1 obviously she functioned as a sidekick/servant for Lucifer, and now she’s getting her whole arc about pushing back on that and finding her own life. She’s friends with Linda not because of Lucifer, but because of herself, and that’s going to come into play. She gets to be inappropriate stepmommy Maze (who I LOVE) with Trixie. She gets to be emotional when Trixie accepts her. She’s a badass openly bisexual woman of color and nobody blinks a damn eye. None of her storylines revolve around her being hurt or put down. She’s always in charge and always awesome. Likewise with it hinted that Lucifer is bi or at least heteroflexible/up for almost anything. Nobody ever makes a big deal of it, it just is. I love that Maze and Linda could have been so easily and unfortunately left as two-dimensional female props for the male main character, and they pushed back on that and complicated them and developed them past that initial association/angle.

I love that the show looks like L.A.; there are black, Hispanic, Asian, etc characters in every role and in every episode. Don’t even get me started on how much I adore Tom Ellis and DB Woodside being cast as biological/blood brothers and pulling it off so flawlessly. I LOVE THEM.

I love how Dan and Chloe’s relationship hasn’t been dragged out for drama. They made an adult choice to divorce and they’re going forward and no pointless “will they get back together??”, they’re work partners but they’re not married anymore but they’re still focused on being great parents to Trixie and they do still care about each other, their marriage just didn’t work out. SO REFRESHING. And Dan’s grown on me. A little. After he was a douche last season, ahem.

I love that every single character on the show, pretty much, can plausibly be shipped with everyone else and they’re such a messy crazy family (because I am a bIG FAT SUCKER for the “oddball gang finds family and home in each other” trope). I mean. CHLOE AND MAZE LIVING TOGETHER AND MAZE CO-PARENTING CHLOE’S KID IT’S THE BEST.

I love the supernatural elements, of course, and am extremely thirsty for more. Because the procedural part is fun, but everyone watches the show because, you know, he’s LUCIFER and that is hopefully going to keep coming more and more into play.

And yes, yes I adore Deckerstar. I love how they’ve gone from belligerent flirting to so totally emotionally raw and deeply connected to each other, because Lucifer will flirt with anything that moves, but what he has with Chloe is so unique and different and stronger. I love that they’re not just rushing them together for the sake of them being together, but taking the time to explore each of them so individually and face their shit/issues/hangups as characters. Tom and Lauren’s chemistry is ridiculous and I live for every single one of their scenes, no matter what they are doing. And when they FINALLY do get together, which we know is coming eventually, Imma scream for days.

So yes. It’s a fucking awesome show. And we are (ironically, obviously, considering the protagonist….) blessed to have it. Ahem.