Didn't really like this season all that much; considering how much I enjoyed Season 4, I was so looking forward to this season.
Watching this season felt like such a chore (I had to drop it a couple of times and came back now after the S6 trailer came out). The season was such a rollercoaster for me... and not in a good way: the rollercoaster symbolizes my feelings about the show while watching the season, with each other episode taking me from "I still like this" to "WTF am I watching?".
Throughout, it made me question how much we actually know the characters, I feel like they've re-written their personalities (esp. Chloe and Ella) so poorly and inconsistently, to the point that they went from my favorite characters in earlier seasons... to almost unlikeable here, which I think also says a lot considering how little growth (imo) Lucifer himself has shown (aside from his obligatory story-progressing character development). I even ended up re-watching bits of the first season after this and it feels like such a different (much better) show.
I also found it ridiculous how... really, NONE (except the one actually convinced by Luci's speech about love lmao) of the angels sided with Lucifer, choosing to side with the dude who's literally threatening them with the angel-killing sword and already killed one of their sisters, when they have an actual alternative (no matter how... odd the choice of Lucifer being God would be)? Really?
The very last scene also felt like they ran out of time and couldn't come up with a better final scene. Geez.
An underwhelming finale for an underwhelming season altogether.
Oh dear god (pun intended), please let this be good. Or at least better than whatever the Hell Season 5 was.
And very happy to know it's a shorter 10-episode one. I do think shorter seasons work out better for certain shows, and I think it does for Lucifer. Each episode would be packed with stuff we'll actually care about — instead of the filler-like, procedural formula with just (if we're lucky) 10 minutes worth of actual story content.
Season 6, in my opinion, probably has one of the most put-together plots of the show thus far. Maybe because, to me, it feels like it involves the pay-off of seasons and seasons of problems and solutions set up by the show. The monoliths and the fear dimension, the LMDs, their time traveling, and of course the characters' relationships. The shortened season also helped a lot with the pacing, but this now makes me feel like a shortened final season will not be enough. I am excited at the prospect of getting Agent Carter closure next season, though!
This season was amazing! Hands down my favorite of the show.
