For those of you who are religious, you know that God is an omnipotent being. He exists, but then he has no physical form. On tonight’s episode of Lucifer, we are about to meet the Almighty in the flesh.
Our favorite Devil and detective head to a psychiatric hospital to investigate a murder. An orderly has died from blunt force trauma to the back of the head from a backgammon board. Said Devil then meets a man named God Johnson (guest star Timothy Omundson) who believes that he is God.
At first, I had thought that God Johnson only knew what he knew about Lucifer from doing research on the Internet. Amenadiel had the same skepticism when Lucifer told him about meeting their Father. I mean, you can teach yourself how to make and fix various things just by looking it up on Google. Then I saw God Johnson heal the lady with the slit throat and my eyes went wide. God is on Earth, and he’s in a psychiatric hospital.
His comment about not remembering why Lucifer’s so angry at him, however, irks me a bit. The fallen angel has been yelling at the heavens for quite a few episodes, and now you say you can’t remember any of it? That makes no sense unless God is the whole forgive and forget type. I wish that he would’ve told Lucifer that Deckerstar is real and that he always had free will to make his own decisions, but I digress. On the other hand, the scene where Lucifer watched his parents dance as his attempt to Parent Trap them might have triggered the memory of him dancing with Detective Decker at LUX when the latter saved his home. Maybe Deckerstar will make it after all.
I applaud Lucifer for going undercover (to an extent) at the hospital to find out more about God Johnson. Though his way of going about it makes me want to roll my eyes. It’s a psychiatric hospital for the mentally ill, Lucifer Morningstar, not a fancy hotel resort! On a side note, his drawing of Detective Decker looked like something a non-artistic person would draw. I half-expected a grand masterpiece given that Lucifer’s good at everything, but the sketch took me by surprise, for lack of a better word. Stick to your piano playing, singing, and crime-solving/punishing bad guys, Luci-boy! The part where Lucifer got underwear on his face amuses me greatly. I hope that it’s clean.
I also applaud Maze for trying to help Detective Decker get back into the dating scene. I’m glad to see the demoness act more human as Detective Decker’s way of life starts to rub off on her. She even tried to cook breakfast for her aside from the fact that she burned the toast. Love the apron, by the way! Though Maze, being Maze, hoped that the detective would sleep with Dr. Garrity (or Dr. McHotty according to Maze. Someone has been watching too much Grey’s Anatomy) that she set her up with. Not everything revolves around alcohol and sex, Mazikeen!
The killer, turns out, is Nurse Kipsy. She changed her name so that people wouldn’t find out that she had a mother who controlled her, manipulated her and tortured her. To quote Lucifer, “You’re preaching to the choir, sister!”. She and him have quite a lot in common in the helicopter parent department. The nurse killed the orderly because he found out what she was up to and threatened to turn her in. Wow. Just. Wow. God then apologizes to Lucifer and tells him that he’s proud of the man that he has become. Shame that heartfelt apology was short-lived as Lucifer reaches the conclusion that his Father would never say something like this to him.
I loved Dr. Martin’s reaction to God Johnson when she found out that he is God. Rachael Harris, you, ma’am, are awesome! Speaking of God turns out that God Johnson is Earl Johnson possessed by God through a belt buckle. Said buckle was then placed on the Flaming Sword after Lucifer picked it up. Could this be the “piece” that Uriel was talking about or could it be something else entirely? If so, I have a feeling that it connects to Detective Decker somehow, but I can’t be certain. Oh, and if they all somehow make it back to Heaven, I think that a certain archangel would miss a certain demoness. One last thing, the part where Ella is singing What If God Was One Of Us made me smile. I smell a duet with her and Tom!
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