Lucifer (2016)

What earned the score

• Trump Cast as Hellbound Tyrant

  Lucifer groups President-elect Trump with Hitler, Idi Amin, Mussolini, and Stalin, then declares that Trump is “definitely going” to Hell. The show uses Satan’s judgment to cast a contemporary political opponent as a uniquely monstrous villain.

• Believers Cast as Villains

  The show frames people who believe in archangels and God’s righteous reign as the real bad guys—harsh and judgmental for resisting Lucifer’s redemption. This turns Christian moral opposition into the source of the story’s supposed cruelty.

• God Reduced to Failed Father

  God is depicted as distant and hard to please, then accused by Lucifer of being a terrible father who caused his children’s dysfunction; the sons also question God’s omniscience and his refusal to admit mistakes. The family-dinner episode reinforces the show’s dismissive portrait of divine authority.

• Satan Recast as Wronged Victim

  Lucifer is presented as a misunderstood, put-upon ex-angel, and the show asks whether the devil himself should be forgiven and redeemed. That sentimental inversion makes the embodiment of evil more appealing than the theology he opposes.

• Homosexuality as Throwaway Gag

  Lucifer says he rearranged mini-golf statuary to suggest homosexual sex, making same-sex sexual imagery a tossed-off joke in the episode.

• Inserted Lesbian Pairing

  Maze and Chloe pose as a lesbian couple while undercover, and Maze kisses Chloe before Chloe rejects her. The episode still inserts an explicit same-sex kiss and queer pairing into the procedural.

• Female Demon as Combatant

  Maze flips and disarms a woman holding her at gunpoint, then beats up several security officers. The episode casts a female demon as a capable physical fighter.

Details

Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

Starring

Tom EllisLauren GermanKevin AlejandroD. B. WoodsideLesley-Ann Brandt

Genre

CrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy

Release Date

Jan 25, 2016

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  Men and women's buttocks are briefly visible. A sex toy is briefly visible.

• Violence Mild

  A character's hand is shot and we see the hole.

  Crime scenes often show bloodied bodies.

  Lucifer occasionally assaults people.

  A character's head is suddenly impaled on a spike.

  A man was seen gouging his eyes out.

  A decomposing body is seen with bees coming out of the mouth.

  A character is seen being tortured by demons in hell.

  A corpse is seen with a torn up torso and their heart missing.

  A character is decapitated and their head is shown multiple times.

  People get shot, blood shown.

• Profanity Mild

  f**k, s**t, d**k, and sl*t are used alongside lesser profanity like b**ch and ass.

• Drugs Moderate

  Alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine use. References to "drugs"

• Frightening Scenes Mild

  When Lucifer gets upset, he becomes demonic looking which could upset sensitive younger viewers.

  Lucifer and Michael stabbed their siblings erasing them from existence.

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