Lucifer (2016)
Lucifer is a 2016 crime series created by Tom Kapinos and Jeff Russo. It stars Tom Ellis, Lauren German and Kevin Alejandro.
The Devil takes a holiday in Los Angeles. Bored with ruling Hell, Lucifer Morningstar opens a nightclub, drives a black convertible, and talks his way into consulting for the LAPD alongside skeptical detective Chloe Decker. Tom Ellis plays him charming, vain, and allergic to a lie, using his gift for drawing out people's hidden desires to crack cases. The procedural surface hides a longer story about family, guilt, and whether a fallen angel can change. Adapted from Neil Gaiman's Sandman spinoff, it balances crime-of-the-week banter with celestial soap opera.
Quick answers
What is Lucifer about?
The Devil takes a holiday in Los Angeles. Bored with ruling Hell, Lucifer Morningstar opens a nightclub, drives a black convertible, and talks his way into consulting for the LAPD alongside skeptical detective Chloe Decker. Tom Ellis plays him charming, vain, and allergic to a lie, using his gift for drawing out people's hidden desires to crack cases. The procedural surface hides a longer story about family, guilt, and whether a fallen angel can change. Adapted from Neil Gaiman's Sandman spinoff, it balances crime-of-the-week banter with celestial soap opera.
When was Lucifer released?
Lucifer was released on 25 January 2016.
How many episodes does Lucifer have?
Lucifer has 93 episodes across 6 seasons.
Who made Lucifer?
Lucifer was created by Tom Kapinos, Jeff Russo and Ben Decter.
Where can I watch Lucifer?
Lucifer is available on Netflix, Google Play, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Lucifer
Stream: Netflix
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar
- Lauren German as Chloe Decker
- Kevin Alejandro as Dan Espinoza
- D. B. Woodside as Amenadiel
- Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen "Maze"
- Rachael Harris as Linda Martin
- Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez
- Scarlett Estevez as Trixie Espinoza
- Tricia Helfer as Charlotte Richards
- Tom Welling as Marcus Pierce
- Inbar Lavi as Eve
- Brianna Hildebrand as Aurora Morningstar
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A few thoughts on Lucifer
Fans of a supernatural being enforcing mortal law should play The Wolf Among Us, where the Big Bad Wolf works as a hardboiled sheriff among exiled fairy tales. The devilish bargains and cat-and-mouse crime of Death Note share its taste for otherworldly detectives. On screen, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman continues the same mythology.
Otherworldly beings who moonlight as crime fighters
Lucifer works crime scenes as a literal fallen angel moonlighting at the LAPD, and this angle collects other outsiders who investigate while hiding what they really are: an occult con man, a homicide detective descended from monster hunters, a demon-slaying heir, a noir-drenched Los Angeles overrun by devils, demon-hunting siblings, and an alien posing as a small-town doctor. Same trick, different disguise.
Comic-book heroes juggling secret identities in a home city
Lucifer traces back to Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe, and shares its DNA with other DC-adjacent shows about masked people trying to have ordinary lives on top of extraordinary ones: an archer cleaning up Star City, a speedster protecting Central City, Gotham before Batman, a family of superpowered vigilantes in Freeland, a black-ops soldier turned reluctant hero in Peacemaker, Batwoman's double life, and Daredevil balancing law and violence in Hell's Kitchen.
Crime procedurals carried by one unforgettable detective
Lucifer works because its case-of-the-week structure is really a showcase for one impossible personality, and this pulls together procedurals built the same way: Harry Bosch's obsessive LAPD detective, Riggs and Murtaugh's mismatched partnership, a retired cop hunting a serial bomber in Mr. Mercedes, Perry Mason as a scrappy pre-fame defense lawyer, and Renée Ballard working the night shift nobody wants.
Games where solving the case costs the detective something real
Lucifer dresses up detective work with devilish charm, and these games chase the same idea in interactive form: Bigby Wolf enforcing order among fairy-tale exiles in The Wolf Among Us, a burnt-out cop drowning his conscience in Disco Elysium, Max Payne narrating his own descent through New York's underworld, Connor investigating android crimes in Detroit: Become Human, and Heavy Rain's four leads chasing a killer at terrible personal cost.