Lucifer season 6 is happening. Tom Ellis, who plays the hellacious Lucifer so deliciously, has signed on for a 6th season.
While Tom Ellis already had a contract for Lucifer season 6, he tried to renegotiate his terms. And while everyone wanted to Tom to be happy and on board for Lucifer season 6, the negotiations hit rock bottom back in April , 2020. And a new season of Lucifer almost did not happen.
Even though Tom Ellis had signed a new contract, he wanted to renegotiate terms I suppose. And that put him at odds with Warner Bros because he just signed one and then wanted a new one not long after that. If Ellis had refused, he would have been in breach of contract. And literally all hell would have broken loose. But Warner Bros knows a good thing when it sees it and sweetened the deal on several occassions so nothing is standing in the way for a new upcoming season 6.
A controversial TV show but with a great premise
The TV show Lucifer has a great premise. Lucifer Morningstar, the full name of the character, leaves Hell to live in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, just to run a nightclub called Lux. Lucifer got bored of being the Lord of Hell for millennia and defies his father (God) to live in Los Angeles. He runs into Detective Chloe Decker during a murdercase and together they solve crimes throughout the show. The show is a bit of a mix between a police procedure drama and supernatural elements. Throughout the course of the show we meet several embodiments of celestial beings. Celestial beings like Cain, Eve and Lucifer’s mother the Goddess of Creation.
His trusted bodyguard Mazikeen, a demon, and his brother Amandiel, an angel, follow Lucifer to Los Angeles. Mazikeen a.k.a. Maze was the head torturer in Hell and now acts like Lucifer’s bodyguard and bartender. After season one she becomes a bounty hunter and tries to find her own path in life.
Amandiel is a good angel who tries to get Lucifer to go back to Hell and take control of the place. Over the course of the show, Amandiel is the one who changes the most. As the show progresses, his morality starts to decay and erode by starting a love relationship with Maze. But also starting one with Lucifer’s therapist Linda. He is a bit of a two timer so that also is a sign of morality slowly decaying while he tries to get Lucifer back.
One of the main things of the show however is the love relationship between Chloe Decker and Lucifer Morningstar. Chloe and Lucifer are evenly matched but she doesn’t know he is the devil himself. While Lucifer tries to hide the fact that he is, he does his job as a police consultant with grace and tries to impress Chloe.
Chloe turns out to be Lucifer’s weakspot. When Lucifer’s near her he can be hurt. When he is away Lucifer is impervious to bullets, knives and so forth. In short: He is invulnerable. I guess that is a good metaphor: being vulnerable when you are near your true love.
Lucifer Cancellation woes
Despite the great premise of the show of “Devil leaves hell to find his true love” , the ratings didn’t agree much with that. While season one was well watched by fans and pundits, the subsequent seasons slowly lost their numbers and it led to cancellation on the Fox TV network.
But fans did not agree with it. Especially because in that last episode Chloe sees Lucifer for who he is with devil face and wings.
A massive #SaveLucifer campaign was launched on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and a massive amount of emails were written to Netflix and their contact us form was heavily abused that day by fans who wanted Netflix to pick up the canceled show.
I myself tweeted, tweeted and tweeted that Lucifer had to be saved. I loved the show and have watched all four seasons so far. I am waiting for the 5th season and ofcourse Lucifer season 6.
Tom Ellis called the backlash to the cancellation — and a subsequent #SaveLucifer fan campaign — “nothing short of ridiculously overwhelming,” adding: “Since doing Lucifer, I’ve done press in various parts of the world, and I’m fully aware that this show is much more popular than what it had seemed to be on Fox… So I’m not surprised about people being angry. I just wasn’t ready this tsunami of love that came with it.”
He was taken by surprise by the fans’ campaign:
Lucifer is the first show that was saved by the fans on such a massive scale that there are no words for it. I would call it dedication by fans but it is so much more than that. It looks like it is an entire movement. The fans literally raised hell to resurrect the show.
When it was announced that season 5 would be its’ last on Netflix, I saw that people were restarting the #Savelucifer campaign again.
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Controversies
While the fans may have saved the show, the show almost didn’t even air on TV. The American Family Association website One Million moms started a petition to prevent the show from airing. Their reason for that was the following: The series would “glorify Satan as a caring, likable person in human flesh.”
Neil Gaimann, a great comicbook writer and creator of Lucifer and so much more said the following about the petition: Ah. It seems like only yesterday (but it was 1991) that the “Concerned Mothers of America” announced that they were boycotting The Sandman because it contained lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and trans characters. It was Wanda that upset them most: the idea of a trans-woman in a comic book… They told us they were organizing a boycott of The Sandman, which they would only stop if we wrote to the American Family Association and promised to reform. I wonder if they noticed it didn’t work last time, either…”
Fortunately Fox didn’t listen and even ran the show for three seasons before cancelling it.
Lucifer Season 6 – Defies cancellation again
The announcement of Lucifer Season 6 really was a devil of a twist. I had already made my peace with season 5 being the last.
I liked seasons 1 to 3 but loved the renewed concept of Netflix’ Lucifer. 10 episodes, no more fillers and fleshed out characters. The characters got more depth by focussing more on the story rather than filler episodes where nothing happens with the main season arc. On top of that, Lucifer grew a bit more to a mature audience in the fourth season. using swear words and sexual references were subtle in previous seasons but not in the fourth season.
You should totally watch the show while we wait for the fifth season part one will drop on Netflix.
