Lucifer Season 4: Everything You Need To Know

WHO'S NEW FOR SEASON 4?

Inbar Lavi (Imposters, Prison Break) will play Eve aka "the original sinner herself," who has "grown restless in her marriage [to Adam] and longs for a less predictable time when things were exciting. Naughty. Dangerous." 

"Lucifer is in a very vulnerable moment, emotionally — not that he would ever recognize that — when out of nowhere, Eve turns up," Tom Ellis shared during TVLine's visit to the set."[Seeing her] brings back so much for Lucifer, about the man he used to be — or, the Devil he used to be."

Lucifer leading lady Lauren German added, "Inbar plays Eve so uniquely, and well. She just brings a whole new vibe to the show," one full of "ethereal and light and sensual energy."

NAUGHTIER BY NATURE

In addition to flashing some bum on the more permissive Netflix platform (as Lucifer as well as this character both will do), "Our blood can be a little more real, our horror can be a little more horror-y," EP Joe Henderson mused after the un-cancellation. "It will all stay within the language of the show, but we're definitely going to embrace the little things like that that I think make a big difference."

On the topic of showing more skin, Tom Ellis told TVLine, "I would like to think that my bum is best feature. But I might get some responses saying that isn't the case! But I shall have it ready and shaved and prepped."

WHY DID NETFLIX SAVE LUCIFER?

In the immediate wake of Lucifer's resurrection by Netflix, EP Joe Henderson shared, "What we have been told, basically, is 1) they love the show, and 2) they loved the fan reaction. They really noticed it."

Netflix original programming VP Cindy Holland herself went on to affirm at summer TCA, "Lucifer is a fantastic show that has really resonated with audiences in parts of the world where we have licensed it, so we felt it was important... to try to help that show continue for our fans."

HOW CAN YOU CATCH UP ON LUCIFER?

All three previous seasons are now available on Netflix — Season 4's "bonus" standalone episodes, included.

HOW SEASON 4 WILL FIT INTO 10 EPISODES

Season 4 on Netflix will encompass what was to be the first half of the original Season 4 arc on Fox, had the broadcast network renewed Lucifer. "We were going to have two parts to it anyway, so we'll just tell a really strong, gnarly first part," EP Ildy Modrovich (photo, left) enthuses. Doing so, says EP Joe Henderson (photo, right), "lets us concentrate the story and focus it, and that's what's really exciting about this. We have a really strong first half that is now going to make for an amazing story."

'DUCIFER' IN DANGER

Dan will blame Lucifer for Charlotte's death, creating "proper, palpable tension" between the two important men in Chloe's life while bringing a new "gravitas" to Kevin Alejandro's character, Tom Ellis told TVLine.

"I love that within Dan's flaws there's a desperation to be good. And he always ends up questioning that within himself," Alejandro told TVLine at the end of Season 3.  "Is he just playing a good cop? Is he inherently bad, and should he stop fighting that?"

WHO'S NEW FOR SEASON 4?

Preacher's Graham McTavish will raise a different kind of hell as Father Kinley, a revered priest profoundly committed to guarding his flock. That calls for doing whatever it takes to keep mankind safe from evil — which doesn't bode well for a certain devil living in L.A.

"The priest very much has got an axe to grind," Tom Ellis affirms. 

WHAT OTHER SURPRISE AWAITS CHLOE?

No one could blame the detective for assuming that she is the only human, and certainly within her circle of friends, to be privy to Lucifer's true identity. So as you can imagine, it's quite a moment when she discovers that is not in fact the case.

Talking to Maze, "She's like, 'You don't know the pressure of being the only human that knows this...,' and Maze is like, 'Well, I've got to be honest, Linda took it a lot better than you did,'" Rachael Harris shares. with a laugh. "And Chloe's like, 'Wait, what?!'"

NAUGHTY GIRLS NEED LOVE, TOO

"Maze does fall in love this season," Lesley-Ann Brandt told me on set, noting: "Season 3 explored what relationships and friendships feel like and how you can be let down and make up, while Season 4 is now about her finding her someone."

Hopefully that someone is cool with a knife being kept under the pillow, seeing as Maze — in love or not — will be as fierce and ferocious as always. Just wait until you see Episode 9....

FROM 'KEEPING THE FAITH' TO... 'I WANT YOUR SEX'?!

Sweet, hug-happy Ella will be shook in the wake of Charlotte and Pierce's back-to-back deaths (keeping in mind that as far as she knew, they were always regular folk).

"You have a dreamy guy who's doing his job in a very militant fashion, and a hard-nosed professional woman who's trying to do right, that are just taken away too soon," Aimee Garcia notes. "That doesn't settle well with Ella, and instead of lashing out at other people, she kind of self-destructs and implodes" — by way of "a bit of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll."

Or, maybe more than "a bit."

SIZE MATTERS

Though Netflix offers greater flexibility when it comes to running times, EP Ildy Modrovich originally quipped, "We're not suddenly going to have hour-and-a-half episodes!" That said, "If there's a scene we love and we don't want to cut it, we're hoping that now we won't have to," she added.

How did it actually turn out? TVLine is hearing that most Season 4 episodes run about four minutes longer than their Fox average — while the action-packed, dark-and-twisty finale may be more supersized.

IS THIS THE END?

Season 4 is not being billed as a final season. Rather, in success on Netflix, "There is always the potential for more," EP Ildy Modrovich declares.

WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN

Season 4 of Lucifer, which previously aired on Fox, will premiere Wednesday, May 8, when all 10 episodes are released at once on Netflix. Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Rachael Harris, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro, D.B. Woodside and Aimee Garcia are all back as series regulars.

The official logline reads: "Reeling from the aftermath of Chloe seeing his devil face, Lucifer faces a new challenge: Eve, the original sinner herself, is back. Does she want revenge for when he tempted her out of Eden oh so many years ago... or something else entirely?"

HOW WILL CHLOE REACT? YOU HAVE THOUGHTS!

How will Chloe react to having seen Lucifer's devil face? We posed that Q to readers, and 31 percent predict the detective will process the startling sight right there on the spot and then tell Lucifer to stay away from her, while 24 percent see her skedaddling straight away, before resurfacing later to talk things out.

Few of you subscribed to our suggestions that Chloe will write it off as a hallucination after fainting, or that she'll book a room in the loony bin.

THE PREMIERE TITLE IS 'OKAY'

The long-awaited Season 4 opener is titled "Everything's Okay," and as is tradition, that is a line of dialogue from the episode. So, who speaks it, and to whom? TVLine polled readers, and here are their predictions.

A BIG SPOILER STILL HASN'T BEEN SPOILT

One of the most important aspects of Chloe's reaction to the Devil face has not yet been spoiled, as far as we know. Which is kinda great.

WHO'S NEW FOR SEASON 4?

Newcomer Vinessa Vidotto will recur as Remiel, an angel who idolizes her big brother Amenadiel (played by D.B. Woodside), but "also feels under-appreciated or overshadowed while struggling to match his towering standards."  

THE DOCTOR IS IN... TROUBLE

Dr. Linda will help a new patient "through a trauma when they need it most," says EP Joe Henderson. "And that character, in turn, will be there when Linda's dealing with a huge life emergency of her own."

WHAT'S THE 'DIEL?

At the end of Season 3, you may recall, Amenadiel got exactly what he wanted — his wings grew back and he returned to Heaven. "So why does he feel like he's missing something?" asks EP Ildy Modrovich. "And what happens to him early in Season 4 that makes him reevaluate where he belongs in the world?"