Spoiler Alert (S05E08)

The finale of the series is definitely the best of the first half of the fifth season. That had been the case up to this point anyway, but on the other hand, the melodramas of all the involved characters are driving me to madness. Everyone keeps crying and complaining to everyone around them, and honestly, I’m fed up with it. The eight episodes dragged on horribly; I hoped for more Michael, but he only appeared at the beginning to introduce himself and then at the end with his plan. Even though Lucifer knows his twin brother is a manipulator, he didn’t care at all in the middle part about where his "troublesome" brother was or what he was up to. I consider this a script failure. While the third season also stretches the storyline, the strong moments throughout make it clear that it’s a successful affair. Here, they’ve taken it to the extreme. Don’t get me wrong, it’s thankfully not a disaster; we still have the excellent Tom Ellis in the lead role (actually a dual role XD), who can entertain the audience with his jokes, but the current plotline is the first in this saga that hasn’t managed to captivate me. The fourth season is qualitatively miles away, not just visually (why did it seem like they significantly cut the budget?), but also in terms of ideas, with the ending being, in a word, DEVASTATING. Maybe the second half will save it. For now, it’s somewhere between 60 and 65%. (09/20/2020)