I don’t fault the boyfriend at all for wanting to put a stop to the threesomes, but if I had a boyfriend who made sexual distinctions between “women I care about” and other women, it would feel uncomfortable. Who wants to date a guy with Madonna-whore issues?

Yep. You were in the room, too, man. I’m sure that plenty of people at the Oscars feel a bit weird about it.

I generally subscribe to the not my circus, not my monkeys philosophy of I think I caught someone cheating. The whole situation is really a catch-22. If you tell a friend that their significant is cheating (or at least you really strongly suspect that they are), you’re forcing your friend to choose sides: you or their…

This movie is great in a lot of ways. Elizabeth Olsen’s performance is fantastic, the cult angle is interesting (and always timely), etc. But Lucy is such an incomprehensible character. It makes sense that at the beginning of the movie that she would be annoyed at her sister’s odd behavior, but by the end of the…

One of my favorite things about college was definitely being forced to read books I wouldn’t have read otherwise, watch movies I wouldn’t have watched otherwise, etc. Having smart people curate a reading list (or film festival, as the case may be) for you is a good thing.

Yikes. Sorry to hear about that.

I’m not against Dan’s advice of telling chokers to stop, but I have to imagine that some people being suddenly choked during sex would freeze or be unable to speak (and yet more will say nothing out of fear of making a scary person angry). While I encourage people to stand up for themselves, I think this is a case…

I’d call choking *more* out of line than peeing on someone. Nonconsensual pee is incredibly disrespectful, dehumanizing, and completely out of line, but it’s not going to directly make anyone fear for their life, and it’s not going to kill anyone. Choking is one of the most extreme sex acts out there, and that message…

I was wondering for awhile whether Maze was just pretending to side with Michael for this very reason. It’s in character for her to act petty and even spiteful, but there are only so many outright betrayals that she can get away with and still be likable. Also, I’m not sure why she’d want a soul after acting this way…

#2 sounds like a pretty legitimate possibility to me. I’d dismiss #1 since Chloe picked up the bullet, which had been smashed like the one she wears around her neck. Michael did see Chloe’s bullet, so he might have replicated it, but how would he have arranged to drive in into Lucifer’s chest without harming him?

The dominance of the white perspective is unfortunately strong, particularly since there is a major Black character and a lot of the story is set in Alabama. I don’t agree that the counterculture is demonized, though. Jenny’s hippie boyfriend is abusive, and there is a whiff of disapproval about Jenny’s free love…

The call could be Dan, but considering that Lucifer’s devil face made Linda practically catatonic, Dan may need some more processing time before he tries to interrupt Chloe and Lucifer’s sexytimes.

It’s really cool how much the Lucifer folks are supportive of one another. That’s obviously true of the actors given these shorts, but it’s also been fun to see how much material the writers have been putting in the scripts to give the actors a chance to show their range and take on new challenges (e.g. Tom Ellis gets…

I don’t know that I’d accept Jed’s diagnosis of Chloe’s relationship issues. If Chloe was scared of commitment, it’s a little weird that Jed didn’t detect anything wrong with the relationship earlier. I think Jed probably felt his relationship with Chloe was deeper than it really was. As for Dan, do we know when did…

At the same time, they’ve made it possible for angels’ wings to be deployed through shirts without any damage to the shirts. That seems particularly odd since the Netflix incarnation of Lucifer certainly isn’t shy about getting Tom Ellis out of his clothes (and I can only imagine that the show wouldn’t be averse to get…

Lilith might be in Hell, though one has to wonder whether that’s possible since:

Given the short number of episodes for Lucifer to play with this season, this episode worked out really well. I would generally object to a gimmick episode when there’s so much that needs to happen in the plot, but INEWFtC managed to carry off the fun noir story and advance the Maze plot (while reminding everyone what…

This episode’s meta angle was fun. I like the (real) Lucifer writers attempt to portray themselves as jealous and outright bizarre (The facts that the showrunner kept a room in a drug-infested hotel and ate nothing but Panda express seems to specific not to be some sort of in-joke.).

I agree with the outlines of this characterization. Lucifer understands humanity pretty well when he isn’t too busy being completely self-absorbed. His years observing humans in Hell and on Earth have definitely paid off.

I’m definitely glad that we’re not stuck with a Maze goes evil and works against all our other favorite characters for a huge portion of the season redux. That was one of my least favorite parts of Season 3. Maze works best when she’s actively part of the team (and/or in friendly[ish] competition with them.