SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Lucifer Season 6, now streaming on Netflix.
Initially, Netflix’s Lucifer aimed to finish its devilish run with five seasons. The plan, then, was to end the series with Luci coming to terms with his past and ascend to become God.
But, as so often is the case, the universe had other plans for the hit supernatural series. After learning that Lucifer was renewed for a sixth and final season, series star Tom Ellis wasn’t entirely sure where else the story could go. During an interview with CBR, Ellis shared what ultimately convinced him that the show needed one last season to close Luci’s character arc.
“We hadn’t finished shooting Season 5,” Ellis said, detailing when he first heard that Lucifer was renewed for Season 6. “At that point, we had spent five months shooting what we thought was the final season of Lucifer, which is why I believe Season 5 is so strong, especially the second half of it. We took big swing after big swing after big swing story-wise, and that’s because we thought the end was coming. We didn’t want to go out laying down. I had also been mentally preparing for the end of the show and then this curveball comes in at the 11th hour. We had already worked out what the finale was supposed to be. I think we had already started writing it and thought long and hard about what the end of the show would be.”
“By the end of shooting Season 5, I was pretty exhausted,” Ellis continued. “I put everything into it. It’s like running a marathon and then somebody going, ‘There’s another 10 miles.’ I was like, ‘What?’ But once I was able to take stock of that, and Joe [Henderson] and Ildy [Modrovich] hit me with some ideas about what Season 6 could be, we were all in agreement… They found a way to do that, to tell another story that we hadn’t touched on yet and bring in a new dynamic to Chloe and Lucifer’s life that we hadn’t touched on yet.”
The new dynamic in question was Lucifer’s surprise role as a father in Season 6, which informed how Ellis would approach Luci. “When I became a parent, there were feelings that manifested in me that I had never felt before, that don’t happen until indeed you are a parent. That is a feeling that we hadn’t mined. Lucifer experiencing that new dynamic, from the way that he feels about someone and the way he wants to impress himself upon somebody, and wants that person to love him, was a completely different thing… That was the answer.”
All six seasons of Lucifer are streaming now on Netflix.
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