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…

Dan’s reaction to getting shot in the foot was the funniest part of the episode.

And I agree with you about Charlotte.  I mean, Helfer is always welcome on my TV, but that storyline added nothing.

Is Trixie in the know about Lucifer and the celestials?

I appreciated the idea, the style, the production values and of course every scene with Lesley-Ann Brandt. But I found some choices were just crassly comedic and clashed with the whole. Woodside and Alejandro’s characters were broad and farcical, had nothing to do with a film-noir setting, and nothing to do with…

It wasn’t meta, she was talking about herself as a “character player” in god’s script. It was just the usual parallel between the circumstances of the main characters and the case of the week.

This was one of the best episodes of the series but I do have a question. Is Trixie in the know about Lucifer and the celestials? Maze paid her to hear the story. Did Trixie just take it as Lucifer making up a fun story or does she know this really happened? I guess Maze just told Trix to make Lucifer tell her the…

Definitely the strongest gimmick episode, and likely the strongest episode period, of the (half) season. When you realized Lilith was unable to let go of her trauma and insisted on passing it on to her children you knew there was no way her story would end well even if *she* thought she was ready to move on. 

Not at all how I expected Lilith's story to be or pan out, but it was a good one and I'm glad we finally got to meet her. My only question now is where does Lilith go after she passed on?

My one but overarching criticism about this episode was that I didn’t find the missing-ring/murder case on its own especially engaging: there were too many investigatory details and new characters to keep track of this time, so I generally found myself more dazed than entertained by those elements, and it’s a slight sh…

This has been a trend more than once in celestial type characters. So while the roles seem swapped. That may or may not be the case.

Here’s something fun for you to think about...

My only issue is that it’s about a decade too early for that song, I believe -- but I’m willing to believe that Lily-Rose gave the song to Eartha Kitt because game recognize game...

Even without having ever heard “I Want to Be Evil” before in my life, it didn’t take long to guess that Lesley-Ann Brandt was channeling Eartha Kitt. A real highlight of the half-season. I hope they eventually give Brandt a Grace Jones song.

So, yeah, this was Lauren German’s best work. She fully, 110% inhabited the role of Jack Monroe. I saw that old vet in German’s acting. And she sold the love story. What a lovely send-up of an episode.

I think Tricia Helfer has been in the opening credits of every episode this season, so it was nice to see her finally show up. She (and everybody else) was really good in this.

I’m really glad this episode was completely different than what everyone was guessing. The most popular theory was that this was the Goddess’s universe. Thank goodness we got this instead.

I agree that this episode is kind of weak from the standpoint of the show within a show (both episodes of Supernatural mentioned are stone cold classics) but it was fun anyways. And I absolutely loved Maze’s reaction to her character’s casting. She’s like Toph from ATLA, during Ember Island Players.

I think you’re oversimplifying it.

The one and only complaint that I have about this show is the timeline. If Lucifer found out a little over a year ago about Chloe being a gift from God, then that means that Dan has been through the fucking ringer. He got divorced, fell in love with the actual Goddess of creation (lost her), then fell in love with the…

I think the reason Michael was naked was so he could practice Lucifer’s posture. Plus the, you know, fan service.