Lucifer Is The Best Devil In All Of Movies And TV, Stream On Netflix

Lucifer is a television series that originally aired on the Fox network in 2016 as a fun and thrilling, often dark, take on the question, “What would happen if the devil got bored of his job ruling hell and came to live on earth?” That’s just what happens in this show. The spectacular Tom Ellis plays Lucifer Morningstar, a club owner in modern-day Los Angeles with a penchant for wild nights, free-flowing love and liquor, and great piano music. 

The show opens when Lucifer finds himself at the center of a murder investigation and meets Chloe Decker (Lauren German), a tough detective who is immune to Lucifer’s powers. You see, this devil has the power to get people to tell him their deepest desires with just his will, and Chloe is entirely indifferent to him. Intrigued, he makes himself useful to the Los Angeles Police Department to get closer to Chloe and eventually teams up as her partner of sorts. 

However, in making the decisions to deal more intimately and emotionally with humans, Lucifer gets inevitably entangled with the real people in Chloe’s life, namely her daughter, Trixie, her ex-husband, who is also a cop, Dan (played by the always fun to watch Kevin Alejandro), and the sweet forensics expert in the precinct, Ella (Aimee Lopez). Lucifer can’t help but be himself, shying away from (and shooing away) Trixie, as he does not like children, and repeatedly calling Dan “Detective Douche.” 

While each episode revolves around a different murder case, Lucifer also continues to manage his bar with his head bartender and demonic enforcer from hell, the marvelous Mazikeen (Lesley-Ann Brandt), and he must contend with his family members continually arriving on earth to urge him to go back to hell to reclaim his necessary position on the throne. The most frequent-flier is Lucifer’s brother and fellow archangel, Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside), who calls him “Lucy.” 

To make matters even more interesting and comical, Lucifer starts seeing a therapist, Linda, who is played in easily her best part by Rachael Harris. All of these people come together in the most interesting ways as Lucifer battles demons, literally and metaphorically, and of course, Lucifer and Chloe have that will they or won’t they vibe going for almost the entire series. 

What makes this Lucifer the best version I’ve seen of the devil in all of my experience reading and watching mythology and lore is that not only is he incredibly attractive, but he is also not a bad guy. Think about it. Lucifer, according to mythology, was once God’s favorite and most powerful angel.

The name Lucifer means “bringer of light.” His only flaw was that he dared to question God and chose not to bow down to humans. Perhaps the only other version of Lucifer I’ve seen come close is Anne Rice’s in Memnoch the Devil. 

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This version of Lucifer was conceived of by Neil Gaiman in his graphic novels for DC Comics, The Sandman. Mike Carey loved the character so much that he gave Lucifer his own graphic novel series, and the show throws in comic references, such as when Mazikeen is celebrating Halloween. And the fans loved this show so much that even when Fox canceled it after three seasons, Netflix was moved to pick it up and give it three more seasons. 

It’s just a great freakin’ show worthy of all the stars I can give it. I not only recommend that you binge-watch this show on Netflix, and that, if you love it as much as I do, you read everything Neil Gaiman has written and all the Lucifer comics as well. Yes. I’m serious.