Lucifer Season 5: Everything We Know

Supernatural fans may have coined the term Hellatus, but "Lucifans" have to be thinking: "Hold my beer from LUX."

Previously, Lucifer's loyal viewers waited nearly a year between Seasons 3 and 4, until the supernatural-tinged procedural made its Netflix debut in May 2019. Less than a month later (aka within that said-to-be-critical Netflix performance window), the streaming service renewed the series for a fifth — and what was then declared "final" — run of episodes. Meaning, those same patient Lucifans have thus far waited another 12 months for (at least part of) Season 5 to arrive.

Starring Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Rachael Harris, D.B. Woodside, Kevin Alejandro, Aimee Garcia and Scarlett Estevez, Lucifer produced 57 episodes for Fox (including two "bonus" hours that the network threw onto the schedule after the show's cancellation). One month after getting dropped by Fox, Lucifer was invited to rise again as Netflix's first "saved" show in a long while.

Where did Lucifer leave off at the end of Season 4? What all can fans expect from Season 5? (And do we know yet when?) And where stands the probable Season 6? As you continue to await new episodes, TVLine has rounded up every officially announced detail thus far.

At the time Netflix ordered Season 5, it was for the same number of episodes — 10 — as Season 4. But about six weeks later, it was announced that the "final" season had  been expanded to 16 episodes. There is a "catch," however....

In October 2019, series lead Tom Ellis announced on Lucifer superfan Kelly Clarkson's talk show, "Season 5 is going to be split into two halves. Netflix is going to drop eight episodes, and then there's going to be a little break, and then they're going to drop another eight."

For those who like to analyze and dissect such things — and remembering that episode titles are always part of dialogue spoken by a character — the episode titles for Season 5 are, in order:

"Really Sad Devil Guy"

"Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!"

"¡Diablo!"

"It Never Ends Well for the Chicken"

"Detective Amenadiel"

"BluBallz"

"Our Mojo"

"Spoiler Alert" (midseason finale)

"Family Dinner"

"Resting Devil Face"

"Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam"

"Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid"

"A Little Harmless Stalking"

"Nothing Lasts Forever"

"Is This Really How It's Going to End?"

"A Chance at a Happy Ending" (season finale)

Season 4 found Lucifer dealing with both a pesky priest (played by Graham McTavish) who tried to bait Chloe with an ominous prophecy, and the return of his very first girlfriend, Eve (Inbar Lavi). Among the other major plot points, Maze fell in unrequited love with Eve (but at least we got a song out of it); Amenadiel and Linda had a child, a son named Charlie, together; and Dan and Ella hooked up some.

In the Season 4 finale, Lucifer made a major sacrifice by leaving Earth's surface to return to and serve as king of Hell, lest the demons there continue to be restless and attempt escapes. Alas, his difficult decision came on the heels of him revealing "the full Devil" to Chloe, who not only accepted it but uttered, "I love you" for the first time. Luci in turn acknowledged that the crazy priest's prophecy was wrong in that the Devil's "first love" was never Eve, but the detective.

God will appear throughout Lucifer Season 5, as played by 24 alum Dennis Haysbert.

Co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich last year teased God's on-screen arrival, calling it "a really fun toy to play with, that we know is going to be a big guiding factor in Season 5."

Haysbert's Lucifer stint also doubles as a 24 reunion, seeing as he and D.B. Woodside, who plays Amenadiel, co-starred as brothers David and Wayne Palmer on the Fox drama.

Tricia Helfer — who last appeared as Charlotte fka Mom at the end of Season 3 — will make an appearance during Lucifer's fifth season, though as seen in the photo here, this time she looks less "sexy mother of the sexy Devil" and more... "June Cleaver."

Filmed in black-and-white and set in "an alternate universe in the 1940s," Episode 4 will offer up "the genesis of Maze" and feature a duet between Lesley-Ann Brandt and Tom Ellis.

"I do sing with Tom, which is something I know that the fans really wanted," Brandt told ET Online. "It's a beautiful, beautiful rendition of one of my favorite songs and a classic and has incredible American vocals, and we pay homage to that era and time. There's just a really sweet connection... between the two characters that I don't think we've really shown in the five years we've been doing the show."

In Episode 6, Chloe, Linda, Ella and Maze will leave the fellas behind to hit a club, as they have been known to do in the past.

Lucifer's first Ladies' Night Out, during Season 2, saw the foursome gather at a tiki bar, where Chloe mulled her divorce from Dan as well as delivered an impression of her partner-in-crimesolving. At the end of Season 3, we had Chloe's bachelorette party, which started off as a G-rated affair (as carefully orchestrated by an agenda-driven Maze), but thanks to Charlotte relocated to a party bus swimming with scantily clad water polo team members.

And this next time around...? As suggested by the photo above, "We're all raving about Ladies Night No. 3," showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson told TVLine.

Whereas the aforementioned Episode 4 offers a musical moment, Season 5's 10th episode, titled "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam," will be a full-blown musical with multiple performances. (Onetime pop star Debbie Gibson will even put in an appearance, playing a teen's mom.) Having long waited to find the right time and reason to do a musical episode, "It's been a little game of Tetris [to make it happen] but it's super fun," co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich told EW.com. "It's going to be amazing."

* When a reader asked TVLine's Inside Line, "How will Lucifer and Chloe's relationship develop when he comes back from Hell?," co-showrunner Joe Henderson teased, "Wait, who says Lucifer's coming back??" He then added, "We can't say much, but know that Ildy [Modrovich] and I are Deckerstar fans ourselves, so we asked ourselves – for the final season, what do we want to see happen between Lucifer and Chloe? What haven't we explored or explained yet? And we've tried to get all of that in Season 5."

* Asked by another TVLine reader how Trixie will react to Lucifer's sudden absence, Henderson said the tyke "seems to be VERY understanding of Lucifer and his departure. But you know kids — they don't always tell you how they really feel, do they? Could Trixie finally turn on her favorite devil?"

* Amenadiel will pay his brother a visit in Hell — but why? "Knowing that's the last place our warrior angel would want to be, the stakes must be extremely high," D.B. Woodside told EW.com.

* Inbar Lavi will reprise her role as Eve.

If you didn't catch Part 3 of the The CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" Arrowverse crossover, know that Lucifer popped up on Earth 666 (heh), when John Constantine (played by Matt Ryan) needed help reclaiming Oliver Queen's lost soul — as payback for a favor the once did for the Devil on behalf of Maze.

It has since been established that the scene in question takes place before the Lucifer TV series started (hence Luci being in Los Angeles and draping himself, old school, on a pair of pretty ladies that were decidedly not Chloe).

In a word, almost! Production on Season 5 started on September 6, 2019, and abruptly ended on or around March 13, 2020 — at which time all of Hollywood, Vancouver et al got shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Lucifer at that point had 15 of 16 episodes in the can, meaning there is still a bit of work left to do on the season finale.

As (finally!) announced in late June, the first half (eight episodes)of Lucifer Season 5 will be released to Netflix on Friday, Aug. 21. "In the stunning fifth season, the stakes are higher than ever," reads an official teaser. "Secrets will be revealed, beloved characters will die, and we'll finally get an answer to the question, 'Will they or won't they?'" There is no timetable yet for the second half of Season 5.

TVLine broke the news back in February that Netflix had rethunk its "fifth and final season" stance, and was open to a Season 6. On Feb. 28, showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich had inked deals to continue on, with series lead Tom Ellis seemingly following suit just days later. Ellis' contract extension reportedly hit a snag in the spring, but at the end of May TVLine shared that he was all set to get horn-y again.

The devil is in the details, as they say, and Netflix super-officially announced the Season 6 order on June 23! But make no mistake, that will be the "final, FINAL" season, the streamer made clear.

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