Spoiler Warning: The following contains spoilers from the Fox/Netflix TV show Lucifer with a particular focus on the final season.
The sixth season of Lucifer was definitely a mixed bag, but the finale was one of its redeeming graces.
Netflix renewed Lucifer for a sixth and final season after it billed the fifth season as the finale. Rather than feeling like a continuation of the story, the sixth season felt much more like an epilogue.
As I watched the final season, I couldn’t help but notice it didn’t feel the same. Tonally, it felt different as it had almost completely shifted from its buddy cop format to a more serialized narrative.
Much of this season was rocky and, in some ways, cheapened some of the emotional luster from past seasons. It did, however, provide a fascinating case study on Lucifer’s progress to redemption over the years.
Then I watched the final two episodes.
These two episodes packed an emotional punch and solidified that Lucifer would not have the traditional happy ending. Most of the time, I prefer a happy ending, but Lucifer is the exception.
Throughout the season, Lucifer grapples with the idea that he will abandon his family as his time-displaced daughter Rory tells him he will, giving him the exact date it happens. He says his goodbyes, but still tries to beat his fate.
Just when it seemed he won and all was happy, someone kidnaps his daughter, forcing Lucifer and Chloe to team up to save Rory. Just when you think it’s all going to end happily, Lucifer ultimately decides to leave his family and help redeem souls in Hell.
Chloe lives out her life on Earth while Lucifer acts as a therapist to the damned souls. No big wedding. No white picket fence.
The two do reunite once Chloe dies of old age and the use of My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade” adds the cherry on top to this fantastic ending.
A few points to consider. Sure, Lucifer and Chloe got their happy ending, but it was a bittersweet one. Lucifer still left his family and Chloe raised Trixie and Rory on her own. Furthermore, everyone else is shown with a no-strings-attached happy ending.
This emphasizes one of the points of the show that happiness comes at a cost of sacrifice. Lucifer and Chloe sacrificed their happy ending so everyone else could have theirs.
As disappointing as that might have been, it is the reason why the final scene is one of the best of the series.
You know Chloe and Lucifer didn’t get their happy ending and you know how much that sucked. You can’t understand the sweet without tasting the bitter and that is what the Lucifer finale seems to convey.
Lucifer and Chloe have a happy ending, but not in the traditional sense. And yet, the show is able to drag out that feeling of joy when they finally do reunite because it made you feel depressed at what happened prior.
It’s rather ingenious to wrap up Lucifer in this way and it made up for such a rocky season.
What about you? What did you think of the Lucifer finale? Did the ending excuse a rocky season or did it make things worse? Let us know in the comments below or head over to our Discord channel to join the conversation.
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