Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show

Tracie Guy-Decker & Emily Guy Birken
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Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show

Tracie and Emily are two sisters who really love the show Lucifer. We're rewatching the series two episodes at a time and taking the time to illuminate the deeper meaning of the crime-solving devil tv show. Yes, we are overthinking it. WARNING: There are definitely spoilers. If you haven't watched the whole series (all 6 seasons), listen at your own risk!

  1. Lucifer 609 + 610 “Goodbye, Lucifer” & “Partners ‘Til the End”

    JUN 13

    Lucifer 609 + 610 “Goodbye, Lucifer” & “Partners ‘Til the End”

    Send us a textIn the final episode of Lightbringers, the Guy girls still manage some significant overthinking. The storytelling leads them to some questions about how people who don’t feel remorse might be tortured in the Lucifer universe (in other words, what was the magic behind Lucifer’s whispered words to Lemec?). Additionally, the confines of telling a story with actors on a small screen lead to musings about the role our age plays in our identity (and a detour into Star Trek the Next Ge...

    1h 13m
  2. Lucifer 607 + 608 'My Best Fiend's Wedding' & 'Save the Devil, Save the World'

    JUN 6

    Lucifer 607 + 608 'My Best Fiend's Wedding' & 'Save the Devil, Save the World'

    Send us a textIn this penultimate episode of Lightbringers, the Guy sisters continue to notice the moments and threads of season 6 that seem to point to a rushed (and self-amusing) writers’ room. From the unprofessional move of Linda’s book (why didn’t they just make it fiction?) to the disappointingly milquetoast Carroll, there are story and character beats that felt forced. At the same time, we deeply appreciate Chloe-as-audience-proxy in the conversation about how some people don’t have th...

    49 min
  3. Lucifer 605 + 606 “The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar” & “A Lot Dirtier Than That”

    MAY 30

    Lucifer 605 + 606 “The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar” & “A Lot Dirtier Than That”

    Send us a textWith these two episodes we get some subtext about addiction and some supertext about racist policing. In “The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar,” the sisters realize on rewatch (especially in the context of our analysis of so many moments of mental health metaphors) that Chloe’s obsession with the super-strength the necklace provides is a stand-in for addiction. “A Lot Dirtier Than That” provides a big chunk of the story arc that serves as penance for the five seasons of copaga...

    51 min
  4. Lucifer 603 + 604 “Yabba Dabba Do Me” & “Pin the Tail on the Daddy”

    MAY 23

    Lucifer 603 + 604 “Yabba Dabba Do Me” & “Pin the Tail on the Daddy”

    Send us a textAs season 6 progresses, the Guy sisters have some moments of joy and appreciation and quite a few quibbles for the writers. Though the cartoonified episode is in some ways delightful (Tracie wanted to be an animator when she was a kid), there are moments in the writing that feel either ableist or rushed (or both). The sisters note that it feels particularly hypocritical that the episode seems to judge Jimmy Barnes for being less-than rational/typical when the whole show is a day...

    50 min
  5. Lucifer 601 + 602 “Nothing Ever Changes Around Here” & “Buckets of Baggage”

    MAY 16

    Lucifer 601 + 602 “Nothing Ever Changes Around Here” & “Buckets of Baggage”

    Send us a textAnd so begins the Guy sisters’ rewatch of Season 6: Nobody’s favorite season.With these two episodes, the sisters spend considerable time lamenting the fact that there are no media role models for people who are childless by choice, including, it seems, Lucifer. We also are perplexed and perturbed by multiple details of these two episodes, from Lucifer’s assertion that he is a “wonder-seeker” to what the heck is sexy about all the broken furniture to how Ella Lopez could be at a...

    51 min
  6. Lucifer 515 + 516 “Is This Really How It’s Going to End” & “We Could Have Had a Happy Ending”

    MAY 9

    Lucifer 515 + 516 “Is This Really How It’s Going to End” & “We Could Have Had a Happy Ending”

    Send us a textThese two final episodes of season five pack and emotional wallup. With more than one major character death (though 2 don’t stay dead), the Guy girls both admit to shedding some tears, even in rewatch. The views we get of both Heaven and Hell have Emily and Tracie thinking deeply about the nature of punishment, the compatibility of justice with pain, and whether or not free will is worth the huge risk we face to have it. We help each other with head canon around why Mi...

    53 min
  7. Lucifer 513 + 514 “A LIttle Harmless Stalking” & “Nothing Lasts Forever”

    MAY 2

    Lucifer 513 + 514 “A LIttle Harmless Stalking” & “Nothing Lasts Forever”

    Send us a text“A Little Harmless Stalking” & “Nothing Lasts Forever” are ripe for overthinking, and the Guy girls do. These two stories invite meditations on the reconciliation of adult children and their parents, a scene that has become common in contemporary pop fiction, and which Tracie & Emily dub psychological or family dynamic fiction: art that creates an aspiration that isn’t true, yet, but could be because of the art. As is often the case in Lucifer, upon deeper refl...

    52 min
  8. Lucifer 511 + 512 "Resting Devil Face" & "Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid"

    APR 25

    Lucifer 511 + 512 "Resting Devil Face" & "Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid"

    Send us a text“Resting Devil Face” is a delightful romp the sisters want to revisit more often. “Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid” may be both of their least favorite. In “Resting Devil Face,” the celestial siblings’ relationship digs in to the very human experience of realizing one’s parent is vulnerable. In a satisfying dovetailing of the case-of-the-week and the celestial story line, we see the unintended consequences of parenting choices and also receive the Hollywood trope that so ...

    48 min
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Tracie and Emily are two sisters who really love the show Lucifer. We're rewatching the series two episodes at a time and taking the time to illuminate the deeper meaning of the crime-solving devil tv show. Yes, we are overthinking it. WARNING: There are definitely spoilers. If you haven't watched the whole series (all 6 seasons), listen at your own risk!

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