That's it! Now THAT is a real good episode, that is real Lucifer! Where were all this psychology and emotion in the frustrating part 1? I've already seen more of them in one episode than in the previous 8!
But with the arrival of God, the biggest event of the show and the one we've been waiting to see since the beginning, it was to be expected.
I would have preferred a British actor who looks like Tom, for the nod, but Dennis Haysbert, radiating bonhomie and quiet strength and possessing the deepest voice I've ever heard, is impeccable in the role. I was a bit worried that the vision of God in the show would be blasphemous, but instead we are faced with a being of great kindness, who doesn't get angry, doesn't accuse or judge. That's why, when he sends Michael back to the Silver City, it's not a punishment but a wise advice from him, or, when he replies to Maze come to ask him for a soul that there is nothing he can do for her, I'm sure it's not a refusal but rather that he knows something about her that she doesn't know!
His relationship with Linda, marked by a great mutual respect, works very well, He being very much above material things but at the same time very serene, calm and smiling, and she, constantly freaked out by the smallest things but precisely down to earth enough to anchor Him in the present.
As for him, Amenadiel, already a better father to his son than his Father was to him, plans to swap immortality with Charlie so he'll never die, while Ella, traumatised by having opened her heart to a sadistic monster, comes to hate herself, and Dan, ever kind, comforts her despite his own trauma, showing again the lovely relationship and affection between them.
As for Chloe, it's delightful to see her finally act like a true girlfriend to Lucifer: finally she realizes that she's been too pushy and apologizes for it, brushing aside, and so much the better!, the inept plot of the three words that spoilt the previous episode, perceives that something is bothering him and encourages him to project his worries onto their investigation to better solve them. How nice it is when a writer gives her a brain! And even if she was wrong about what is bothering her lover, it's still what makes him decide to confront his Father.
Their family dinner is an anthology scene: at first stilted and awkward, with a little discordant music and the camera at table height filming the faces one by one in a low-angle tracking shot, it turns into a suffocating settlement of scores in which Lucifer, in whom we perceive a very keen intelligence for once that the writer doesn't hide it behind his childishness, played breathtakingly by an extraordinary Tom -especially since he plays not one but two characters in this scene-, throws all their faults and failings in the face of his brothers and his Father and destroys them with his words, Michael letting his jealousy of him explode and God appearing to be hurt for the first time... but when his Father is unable to say out loud that he loves His children, while the father of the suspects in his case sacrificed himself and was ready to go to prison in their place, for Lucifer things become horribly clear: his Father has made him incapable of love.
We who watch the show and see him for 5 years change and grow up, make the hardest but the best decisions every time out of love know that he's wrong, but for our two lovers, the harm is done: it is with a broken heart and tears in our eyes that we hear him announce to Chloe that he doesn't love her...
What a shock of an episode...
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