Lucifer's spur-of-the-moment decision, which catches us off-guard at the beginning of the episode, his first one since his infuriating childishness in season 3, contrary to the latter is this time the most wonderful surprise this show could have had in store for us: without any unnecessary drama or umpteenth bad excuse to separate them, Lucifer and Chloe are FINALLY together for good!
The scene is beautiful, between Chloe, a strong and independent woman but a woman in love, who takes the initiative and, at last!, says clearly what she wants, and Lucifer who wants it as much as she does despite all his other worries and answers "yes" without hesitation, and after that, seeing them display themselves in public as a couple, kiss each other and hold each other by the waist in full view of everyone, is a form of accomplishment for us, who have fantasized about it since the very beginning!
Or at least should be... except that Lucifer insists so much on his happiness that we quickly come to think that he's not that happy. To be honest, the fact that he decides to stop thinking in an episode dedicated to Linda, his psychiatrist, the one who pushed him to think for 5 years, doesn't fail to tickle us, the question then arising of their unethical friendship and the way it has distorted their therapist-patient relationship.
Indeed, each of them needs the other as a friend here but their habit of interacting as therapist and patient makes them lose sight of this. Thus, Linda terrified for her daughter's fate would like her friend to help her clear her name instead of her patient to try to extort a free psychoanalysis session from her, but Lucifer preoccupied by his relationship with the woman he loves doesn't expect his psychiatrist to throw into his face the anxieties he is trying to bury but rather his friend to listen to him and reassure him.
In the end, it's pretty clear: Linda no longer has the role of psychiatrist in the show. Her role now is that of a friend, and not for the first time I feel that her friendship is a better therapy for her friends than her therapy itself, and of a mother, to Charlie, of course, but also to Adriana who discovers the truth and accepts it happily. At last Linda has found her daughter and enters into a relationship that ends a lifetime of guilt and, when the time comes, could save her from hell to which her soul was destined until then...
Because this episode is hers, it is for all the characters around her the one of self-reflection and awareness, psychology leading to emotion and head revealing heart. Thus, Amenadiel prepares to become God, and it is as in season 3 when he was fallen a dialogue with Ella that will give them both the trigger: if he gives her back her self-confidence, she makes him realize that he loves humans and life on Earth too much to become God! Similarly, Eve realises that she loves Maze... but Maze realises that she can't bear the idea that Eve will die one day, and it's with tears in our eyes that we see them break up when we thought they too were finally together.
As for Lucifer, definitely more concerned than he wanted to appear, his lucidity about himself shows how much he has finished growing up and doesn't need a psychiatrist anymore: he didn't lie, his "yes" was completely sincere, being in a couple with Chloe is really what he wants... but he still doesn't feel like he deserved it.
This is what will push him to make the biggest, heaviest decision, a decision that seems crazy at first but that finally makes complete sense from a being who needs so much to prove himself that he is good at something: he will be God!
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