Fans of Oh God, You Devil! will remember that Satan once spent 97 minutes investing deeply in the musical career of Ted Wass.
Keep that in mind when you’re watching Fox’s new drama Lucifer (premiering Monday), because somewhere along the way, you’re very likely to find yourself wondering if this is the least interesting thing Beelzebub has ever done while killing time on the mortal plane.
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 — which is, I begrudgingly admit, better than that time that Death took a holiday and even though he looked like Brad Pitt, he spent three hours sampling peanut butter.
Adapted by Tom Kapinos from a Vertigo comic series in which Old Scratch similarly owns and operates a bar but doesn’t also solve mortal crimes, Lucifer arrives with all of the superficial flash you’d expect from a Len Wiseman-directed pilot. But after falling into the Fox “quirky civilian contractor(s) aid law enforcement” rut, this new drama doesn’t begin to show sparks of interest until at least the fifth episode.
