Two weeks after Chloe’s (Lauren German) near death, Lucifer (Tom Ellis) has gone off the grid, cutting off all contact from his family and the police department. He materializes just in time to help solve an up-and-coming guitarist’s murder and introduces the department to a ditzy stripper named Candy (guest star Lindsey Gort), a mysterious new woman in his life. While Lucifer’s mom (Tricia Helfer) desperately tries to contact her son, Chloe tries to push him away. Lucifer must find a way to prove himself in order to be invited back onto the team.

Lucifer returns from its winter break with a fun episode that has twists and turns and kept me guessing until the very end.

Where’s Lucifer been? Getting married apparently! Meet Candy, Lucifer’s new wife and the set up and antics after is absolutely amazing as everyone has to deal with this new individual. But, why did Lucifer get married? What’s his plan? Wait through the hour as it’s all explained and while 55 minutes will make you hate Lucifer (aren’t we supposed to?), those last five minutes will turn you around as all is revealed and makes what is an interesting episode a fantastic one. You enter the episode with one thought on Lucifer and leave it with a completely different perspective.

As always Tom Ellis delivers a performance that’s beyond entertaining where he balances being an ass and also being so charming. And this episode really shows it all off as he runs the spectrum. The cast is always wonderful too. Here it’s mostly anger towards Lucifer, a change from the exacerbation that generally is thrown his way. Everyone gets a bit of the spotlight as usual as this is a show where the entire cast delivers and it’s stronger with them all.

But, this episode is about the set up for the rest of the season. It’s a hard episode to review without ruining it, but fans of Lucifer will be beyond happy with the series return and I can’t wait to see where it goes. Things have been set up for quite some time and now we’re seeing a payoff.

Overall Rating: 8.65

Lucifer must find the antidote to the Professor’s poison, so he travels to hell to find the Professor’s soul. While he’s there, he is forced to confront his guilt about Uriel’s death. Mom heads to hell to get Lucifer back, but Lucifer still feels betrayed by his parents because of something he discovers.

Lucifer wraps up before its winter break in the second half of the two-part story which began in the previous episode.

Chloe is having issues due to the poison sending her to the hospital and without the antidote, she’ll die. The problem is, the only person who knows the formula for the antidote is dead. What’s Lucifer to do? Head to Hell to get the information!

The episode is a fascinating one as it brings everyone together to save Chloe working in a way we haven’t really seen, and it’s twisted how it goes down. Humorous, but twisted. The decisions everyone makes and how they all work together in their various roles is really entertaining.

This is an interesting episode in that it really sets up what the rest of the season will be like and also gives us a glimpse of exactly what Hell is like. But, what really strikes me is the examination of Lucifer and his mother… and their guilt. Once again, the show adds depth to its characters and moves along the meta-story. There’s been a fantastic balance of that this season and this episode is no exception.

Where do things go from here? Well, that’s a big question and we’re not quite sure as the episode leaves a big question mark at the end. All I know, no matter what it is, it’ll be impressive as the rest of this season has been any indication.

Overall Rating: 8.05

Lucifer and Chloe investigate a mysterious masked killer who is poisoning college students. They also try to make sense of their new relationship, after a long-awaited kiss. Meanwhile, Charlotte visits Linda for advice on a touchy subject.

Lucifer is an interesting episode in that it focuses on Lucifer and Chloe’s relationship explored in a murder mystery that’s a bit like Saw in a way. Individuals are being tested in impossible choices like letting someone die unless they cut off their hand.

The episode is fun in that it really focuses on Chloe and Lucifer and their budding relationship. But, the episode plays a lot with that faking out the viewers with teases and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

There’s some great humor as usual and the episode does a fantastic job of deepening the story between Lucifer and Chloe and revealing even more than we knew before. It’s interesting in how it plays out and builds on the world building in many ways. So many episodes in it’s kind of amazing how it plays out, works, and fits so well. Even with an unknown as to whether there’d be a second season it’s clear the creators have planned really well.

Another fantastic episode that’s more focused on the meta story than the murder of the week, but even that is entertaining too.

Overall Rating: 8.85

The tension between Lucifer and Chloe makes it difficult for them to investigate the murder of two victims who happen to be Lucifer’s old flames.

Lucifer lays it all out there in this return episode after its winter break. Let me start by saying, hells yes. This episode is fantastic in so many ways. There’s the fun performances of the characters, the interesting case, and the focus on Lucifer and Chloe… especially Lucifer.

For its two seasons the series has hinted that Lucifer is at least bi-sexual (though could be something else), basically he’s not hetero. This episode throws that in front of us with Lucifer having to deal with past lovers, both female and male. It’s fantastic to see and to see his, and Chloe’s reaction, shows how far some have come when sexuality is involved. His mentioning his having been with men and Chloe’s reaction is very modern and in the end feels as natural as anything else.

But, in all of that there’s a greater focus on Lucifer and the fact that in the end few people really care about him. There’s an obsessed individual who feels like a cultish stand-in representing those who say the worship the devil, but even that is fairly shallow. We get to see more of Lucifer the person and in that we feel a bit bad for him.

The episode isn’t all “awe,” there’s lots of humor, especially when it comes to Maze and Detective Douche. Their “buddy cop” relationship is fantastic and seeing Maze finally taking center stage is beyond welcome. It brings a levity to it all.

The episode is absolutely fantastic showing off all of the strengths of the characters and actors delivering one of the most fun hours I’ve had watching tv in a while. Lucifer remains my favorite comic television adaptation right now and this episode is a prime example why.

Overall Rating: 9.45

Charlotte is determined to get Lucifer to leave Earth by turning Chloe against him. Meanwhile, Amenadiel has begun working as Charlotte’s soldier, which makes Maze question his loyalty.

Lucifer has finally left me speechless with an episode full of reveals to things that have been teased out since the first season and it’s a twist I didn’t see coming at all.

The episode mainly focuses on the trial of the murder of Chloe’s father. Charlotte is the accused’s lawyer and she uses that opportunity to drive a wedge between Lucifer and Chloe as the trial goes on and on.

But, the episode isn’t so much about the trial as it is the reveals throughout.

Amenadiel through his actions reveals to Maze that he’s working for Charlotte and Maze of course has some issues with that, threatening them both if something were to happen to Chloe. Battle to come? I know I want to see Amenadiel and Maze duke it out.

But there’s a lot more reveals. Detective Douche’s relationship with Charlotte is revealed to Lucifer and with that some great laughs. It’s the lighthearted aspect of the episode along with a fun sequence of Maze getting to kick some ass.

And then there’s a scene at the end involving Detective Douche… well I’ll just leave that one to be seen.

But the biggest aspect of the episode of the final reveal as we get the truth about Chloe. The series up to this point has been hinting there’s something going on with her… something almost divine and we get all the answers. It’s a hell of a twist and flows really nicely. It’s not over the top or feels forced, instead like a lot of the series things just seem like they fit together.

This is an episode that had me entertained from start to finish with a fantastic mix of everything. There’s some solid acting, fun writing, and a lot of reveals throughout that really ups the drama a ton. Easily the best episode of the season and one of the strongest of the entire series.

Overall Rating: 9.45