REIGN OF FIRE

LUCIFER HAS BEEN TO HELL AND back. The supernatural TV procedural, based on the DC Comics character, sees a bored Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) abandoning his fiery realm for Los Angeles. He quickly establishes his own nightclub, assists the LAPD in cracking cases and unexpectedly falls in love with Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German).

The charming series aired on Fox in the US for its first three seasons before the network axed it. Netflix subsequently saved the show from eternal damnation, but also cancelled it, announcing that its upcoming fifth season would be the last. However, Lucifer is one lucky devil; the streaming service recently relented and commissioned the drama for a sixth and final season.

In the meantime, the first eight episodes of season five arrive later’s last hurrah, showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich compiled a checklist of dangling plot threads that they wanted to pay off. “God has been this unknowable presence,” Modrovich tells . “Even in season two, the fun of it was Lucifer can still talk to his mom, but his dad is still elusive. His dad is still what he projects onto him. We always thought that when we were going to end the show, the thing we were holding in our back pocket is, ‘Let’s finally see who the man is, versus who Lucifer has built him up to be.’ That was a lot of fun.”