Spoilers ahead for Lucifer and the Good Place. If you’ve not finished both shows, I’d highly advise against reading this entry.
It’s been the tragedy of modern television that shows ever rarely get to tie up their every loose knot at the end, but Lucifer is resoundingly not of that sort. It would’ve been the case a few years ago if Netflix didn’t pick up the show after Fox cancelled it, but the writers and cast were able to carry the story through its final stages. It’s the tendency of finales to be divisive, but if Lucifer’s got one thing right, it’s the emotional payoff of every thread set up in prior seasons–every character and storyline got to have proper closure, and for that the show deserves ample praise.
Much like the final season of the Good Place, the culmination of Lucifer’s storyline — despite it not being as well signposted as it perhaps should’ve been — is a radical reform of the afterlife, wherein humans are presumed to be good-natured with only wrenches thrown in their life path that destined them for eternal damnation. The show made no pretense about embracing the premise of the Biblical afterlife wholesale — good people go to Heaven, bad people go to Hell —…
