Let’s set up
Lucifer’s inevitable annoying drama for the week… honestly I’m really beginning
to find Lucifer’s personality quirks more than a little irritating. Every week
there seems to be a whole new reason for why he’s going to act super super
weird. It’s like iZombie but without the brain eating excuse.
So he sees Linda who
is actually taking a page out of his book and letting her issues with Maze
spill on him, thinking about apologising and reconciling with Maze. But with
her input, Lucifer decides he needs to stop provoking god in case god decides
to kill Chloe (he’s not ruled out this being why the bomb scare happened). And
since he can’t keep god’s spotlight off him, he’s decided to pretend he’s
interested in other people and doesn’t care about Chloe
Which he doesn’t even
remotely pull off, even Chloe calls him out on this (putting it down to fear of
losing her) so how he thought he could gool god is something of a mystery. This
leads to lots of awkward scenes of Lucifer ostracising Chloe and latching on to
every passer by, including bodyguards, extras etc for lots and lots and lots of
cringe-worthiness.
This happens
throughout the case - the murder of a back up dancer who was stepping in for a
popular singer, Axara. Naturally everyone assumes the singer is the real target
so there follows lots of investigating to see who would want her dead. We have
the obligatory red herrings (three of them, including a dubious depiction of a
drag queen complete with very coded language) as Chloe and Ella follow the
clues with good police work, dismissing these as they track down the actual
culprit. But they largely do this without Lucifer since he’s doing the
ostracism thing and fawning over everyone else very irritatingly - but he can
barely keep it up when Chloe covers Axara with her own body when someone shoots
at them.
One of the things he
does is offer to bodyguard Axara and since his penthouse is where no-one would
expect her to go, Chloe agrees. He and Axara strike a lot of hostile sparks,
fight over smoothies but eventually find some peace. She wants to have sex with
him and bewilderingly for the first time ever, he refuses. He is too
preoccupied with Chloe - and he doesn’t really like her very much. She does
give some good advice about following your passion (in her case, singing)
otherwise what is the point of life - for Lucifer what is the point of life
without Chloe; despite the threat of his dad
And her passion takes
her to his club to sing even though her life is under threat because she’s not
giving up or letting anything come between her and what she loves. Lucifer
tries to drag her back and they end up singing a lovely hostile duet which is
kind of awesome because they can sing.
The performance
attracts Cece, a woman with a knife, who has been killing people to scare Axara
into not performing or touring any more so they can go back to being closest
ever friends (or more, there’s an “I love you” in there as well) and she can
have her all to herself. Axara excellently reiterates the point about her
passion and no-one taking it from her and Lucifer gets himself stabbed trying
to protect Chloe.
At this point I do
have to wonder if there’s going to be some kind of police review into Chloe at
all? I mean this is what, the third, fourth time her consultant has been
injured on the job? I’m sure you get in trouble for that kind of thing
While this has been
going on Pierce has been super super depressed because all of his plans to
finally die have failed miserably, Lucifer has quit on him and he’s now
murdering a perfectly good Kansas song which doesn’t deserve this kind of
abuse. Ella tries to make him feel better because she’s Ella but her compliment
box just reveals everyone in the office is super obsessed with his arms. So she
hands off to Dan on the presumption that Dan has been through some shit and had
his own mopey phase so maybe he can snap Pierce out of it
So Dan takes him to
Lucifer’s bar (I’m going to assume they get freebies because I can’t imagine
either Pierce or Dan would willingly go to Lux and, besides, if this is a
luxury club run by Lucifer could Dan even afford to drink there?) and Pierce
shows a level of utter bleakness that Dan can’t even touch - so he passes to
Amenadiel - except Pierce and Amenadiel aren’t exactly BFFs
Amenadiel is super happy because he passed his test - he stopped Lucifer and Pierce defying god. To which Pierce points out that Amenadiel still doesn’t have his wings back… but Amenadiel is all hopeful and just full of faith, which is more than a little annoying. But he has hope to offer Pierce - he points to Lucifer willing to take a knife for Chloe and points out even he has faith and hope.
I’m not sure how you
can compare - Lucifer doesn’t have faith and hope, he loves Chloe. And neither
Lucifer nor Amenadiel can really say their experiences are comparable to
Pierce’s so their advice or example is… lacking. But then, I’m not sure
Pierce’s experiences can constitute hell either.
And we have Linda and
Maze - Charlotte actually offers to mediate for Linda and Maze as she is trying
to be less selfish. Linda has tried to apologise to Maze, tried to give Maze
gifts, has given up Amenadiel but Maze refuses to hear her out or accept her
apologies. Linda gets immensely frustrated at Maze refusing to acknowledge any
of her own bad acts (though she says she does - but she’s a demon, and holds
Linda to a higher standard). Linda does a little slut shaming on Maze’s sex
life in pointing out that she wanted one man and she even gave this man up for
Maze
Maze is unmoved and
walks out - and Linda is done with her. Maze breaks Linda’s gift (a battle
axe). Awwww, i really liked Linda and Maze as friends.
In the aftermath of
saving Axara she gives Chloe tickets for her concert. Pierce, having a new
surge of hope pretty much invites himself to go with her and she’s ok with that
because, as she explains to Lucifer, she thought he was still shunning her
He goes to Linda,
near tearful, as admits to making a terrible mistake - which seems super
melodramatic.
So a drag queen
portrayed in less than flattering light and an obsessed woman declaring she
loves her and being able to murder - so unstable violent lesbian trope also
touched upon. You’re not doing any better here Lucifer.
I did like Axara, the
self-aware diva with bags of talent.
I am a little bemused
by the tearful Lucifer though… I mean it seems to have come out of nowhere for
him to suddenly assume Pierce and she are an item because of one concert? Seems
a little extreme… but could it finally lead us to Lucifer and Chloe getting
closer and please, please finally telling the big secret.
