That cheeky devil Lucifer is back and he's having one hell of a time on Netflix!
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and today I'm going to reveal some devilish details
about season 4 of Lucifer including cool easter eggs, ingenious foreshadowing, secret cameos,
and more things you may have missed.
Obviously, spoilers ahead if you're not all caught up.
If you were shocked by the season 4 finale where Lucifer confessed his love to Chloe
and then banished himself from Earth to sit on the throne in Hell, then you'll be even
more surprised to know that moment was cleverly foreshadowed right in the opening scene of
the season.
The premiere episode begins with a montage of a lonely, melancholy Lucifer singing Radiohead's
"Creep" at his club Lux.
Chloe's absence and the throne-like art-deco background behind Luci predicts how he will
end the season: alone again without Chloe, sitting on a throne overlooking Hell.
The reflection of Lucifer in the piano also foreshadows how split he'll feel this season
between his more and less devilish sides and also how he'll travel from the Earth above
to the Underworld below.
And, in a really clever detail, as the opening montage plays out, Lucifer's clothes change
with each new day, finishing with him in a white shirt and dark suit with a little red
handkerchief in his breast pocket.
And that's basically the same outfit complete with red pocket square that we see him wearing
at the very end of the season when he's sat on his throne in Hell.
When Chloe visits Father Kinley he shows her a scrapbook of some of the problems he says
were caused by Lucifer's previous visits to earth.
"Once we uncovered Lucifer's identity, we were able to uncover evidence of his previous
visits with humanity.
You're...
You're saying he caused the Chicago Fire and Nazi Germany?"
And when the detective turns to the page of clippings from Nazi Germany, there's a photo
with none other than Lucifer standing there.
However, the devil does not look impressed with the people he encountered and, I think,
what Father Kinley has misunderstood is that Lucifer's very likely there to find out all
about the humans he'll be punishing later in Hell.
In fact, this links back to previous mentions of Hitler on the show:
"How did you actually torture Hitler in Hell?"
"Hitler was a talker.
Well, screamer, actually."
"Shouldn't you be, uh, I don't know, having tea with Hitler by now?"
As for the Chicago Fire, well that's a cool easter egg to one of actress Lauren German's
previous TV roles.
The Great Chicago Fire was a real fire that raged for several days in late 1871, but of
all the historical events that the Lucifer writers could have picked, they chose this
one as Lauren German, aka Chloe, starred in two seasons of the TV drama Chicago Fire where
she played a paramedic!
And it's tricky to make out, but there is a "Lucifer Morningstar" listed on the check-in
page for the hotel in Chicago.
When Fox cancelled Lucifer after its third season, Lucifans responded with a resounding
'hell, no' and got straight to work online, letting everyone know just how much the show
meant to them.
Thanks to their online campaign, we got our deepest desire: a fiendishly good new season
on Netflix.
And there's a sly wink to the show's former fate, when Father Kinley hands Lucifer his
business card.
"Vatican investigator?
Sounds like a soon-to-be-canceled TV show."
And in a grateful shout-out to those many fans who helped raise the series from the
dead, the show's writers titled episode 9, "Save Lucifer", which is a lovely hat-tip
to the hashtag Lucifans used to blow up twitter!
There's a particularly touching moment mid-way through Season 4 where Amenadiel tells Chloe
just how proud her father is of her, and the way he says it shows that he's seen or spoken
to her father in heaven.
After all that you've been through, Chloe... what you're worried about most is what's best
for those that you care about.
No wonder your dad is so proud of you."
That revelation is actually a moving reminder of some of the final words Chloe's police
officer dad said, just before he was murdered.
"Just tell her it was a good movie.
Kids these days.
Yeah, I know.
But, hey...
I'm proud of her."
By the way, the actor who played Chloe's father in those flashbacks in season 2 is Chris Payne
Gilbert, the real-life husband of Lesley-Ann Brandt who plays Maze.
Speaking of Maze, she gets some hilarious scenes as always in Season 4, but there was
one particularly intriguing moment in the first episode when she's visiting Linda.
When the Doctor encourages Mazikeen to open up about her guilt after hurting Trixie last
season, the demon is more than a little reluctant to discuss her emotions.
"So let's talk about what you're dealing with emotionally.
Yeah, I really don't want to.
Maybe it would help if I spoke your language.
You speak Lilim?
[speaking in Lilim in a deep voice] What?"
In a little shout-out to her birthplace, South Africa, Lesley-Ann [Brandt] has revealed she
was speaking Afrikaans.
And if you were wondering what she said, well, the official Twitter account for Netflix South
Africa posted her Afrikaans dialogue.
I put that into Google Translate and here's what it means in English:
"Can you understand what I'm talking about, because I want to talk to you and you can't?"
The role of Eve was actually written with actress Inbar Lavi in mind from the start
because one of Lucifer's writers was a big fan of her starring role as a con artist in
the TV series Imposters.
And what a great choice she was as her decision to go full-on playing the original sinner
Eve with all the excitement and innocent wonder of a Disney princess with an extra naughty
side was absolute genius.
And there are lots of lovely little touches in Eve's scenes from her drink of choice:
an apple martini, to the apples at the bar and in other scenes.
Then there's her arrival in a heavenly white dress with a killer pair of fiery heels, to
her later appearances in clothing that's various shades of red.
And there's even some foreshadowing of where Lucifer and Eve's new relationship is headed
by the end of the season in the lyrics of the song playing just before Luci discovers
she's back on earth.
Also, Eve's conversation with Father Kinley includes an amusing nod to the opening lines
of Catholic Confession, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
"Forgive me father..
I am Eve."
Music's always been a big part of the show and there've been some great musical moments
this season, kicking off with Lucifer back at the piano, singing his heart out to Creep;
Maze declaring her love to an oblivious Eve by singing Wonderwall;
and Luci, Ella, and Dan getting their groove on in the season finale with a little throwback
to Dirty Dancing.
Indeed, that toe-tapping season finale could well pave the way for a full-on musical episode
next season according to co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich who's been eager to get the cast
in full song-and-dance mode for some time now.
And it looks like actor Tom Ellis would definitely be up for that because not only is last season's
Luck Be A Lady Tonight scene one of his favourite moments in the show so far, but he's also
said that the dance sequence in the finale was his favourite filming moment of Season
4!
By the way, we might have never heard Tom break into song on the show if it hadn't had
been for a cast and crew night out.
Originally, the plan for the series was just for Lucifer to play the piano, but when the
writers heard Tom belt out Mustang Sally at a karaoke bar, they discovered their lead
actor could really sing and decided to include it in the show!
Remember the sequence where Amenadiel approaches random strangers in an effort to connect more
with human beings now that he's decided to stay on earth?
Well, when out of the blue he stops by for a chat with a woman who's working on her laptop
in a coffee shop, the woman he's interrupting is actually played by one of Lucifer's showrunners,
Ildy Modrovich, who also wrote this very episode!
And Ildy's co-showrunner, Joe Henderson, snuck in an easter egg to another one of his creations
in the scene where Maze and Trixie make up at the police precinct.
Trixie is reading a comic book called "Skyward" all about the adventures of a young woman
born into a low-gravity world, and Joe wrote both the comic book and the episode it appears
in.
Trixie's previous reading material in the show has also provided interesting easter
eggs, for example, the book "Coraline", that her mother read to her, was written by Neil
Gaiman the co-creator of The Sandman graphic novel which introduced the Lucifer character
that this TV series is loosely based on.
So, were there any other cool details or easter eggs you spotted in Season 4?
And what were your favourite moments?
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