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Lucifer is an American fantasy police procedural comedy-drama television series developed by Tom Kapinos that premiered on Fox on January 25, 2016
It features a character created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg taken from the comic book series The Sandman, which later became the protagonist of the spin-off comic book series Lucifer written by Mike Carey, both published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. In April 2016, Fox renewed the series for a second season.
The series focuses on Lucifer Morningstar, "who is bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell and resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the beauty of Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals"
Lucifer runs a piano bar in Los Angeles called "Lux", with the assistance of his demonic ally Mazikeen
After a minor celebrity whom Lucifer once helped achieve fame is murdered outside his club, Lucifer becomes involved with the LAPD when he takes it upon himself to assist Detective Chloe Decker in finding the one responsible so that he can "punish them".
Lucifer (Tom Ellis), an angel cast out of Heaven and condemned to rule Hell, has decided to take a vacation and in Lucifer, he's using that vacation to work as a civilian consultant to the LAPD
Lucifer annoys Chloe, captivates her young daughter Trixie (Scarlett Estevez) and threatens Chloe's detective ex Dan (Kevin Alejandro) in exactly the way that any rational person would be threatened if their ex and their daughter started spending excessive amounts of time with Satan
Lucifer is also intriguing to therapist Linda (Rachael Harris), who soon enters into a counseling-for-sex deal with Lucifer.
Lucifer's absence from Hell is concerning a few people, particularly faithful minion Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt) and suave angel Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside), who wants Lucifer back in the Underworld for implied reasons.
In the fifth episode, he's stuck with one astoundingly tone-deaf scene with daughter Trixie (Estevez is a fine graduate of the lisp-and-be-adorable school of child acting), but he also gets a good conversation with Maze, Brandt's best interaction in the episodes I watched