Here we have a good episode, original and funny but loaded with emotion at last! All the characters play a role and grow up in it.
Thus, on the sidelines of the main plot, Linda's terrible secret, that Michael made surface, is finally revealed: when she was still a teenager, she had a baby which she abandoned! And if Maze, who suffers so much from being abandoned by her mother herself, is at first furious with her friend, as a sign that she has truly matured the demon finally agrees to hear the whole story, tough but beautiful scene, and to help Linda find her daughter, a young real estate agent named Adriana; unfortunately, when Maze understands that through them it is her own relationship with her mother that she tries to recreate, it is already too late: in a scene of great sadness, she arrives at Lilith's apartment only to find it being emptied and to learn that her mother died a few days earlier... Finally after 5 seasons Maze character looks like a human being, like a real person that we can understand and like; she will never be able to make peace with her past, and we're sorry for her...
As for him, clearly set backward but paradoxically back to his usual sassy and sexy as we like him, even if we regret that he looks like a secondary character in his own show, it's with Dan that Lucifer teams up, even wearing the bracelet that the detective made for him, and, we're not going to lie, it's really a great pleasure to see these two finally reconciled, especially since through contact with this man flawed but who does his best, the devil ends up agreeing to make an effort and to provide real work to help Chloe's investigation advance.
Chloe, as it happens, is at the centre of this episode's most gripping plot. Lucifer's gesture towards her in the opening scene, offering her to burn a gift box as a sign of rejection of her gift nature on the very beach where he burned his wings as a sign of rejection of his angel nature, is a clever and sweet idea and shows how Lucifer is maturing, even if it is not enough to relieve her. Definitely excellent when given better than rom-com parts to play, Lauren shows very well Chloe's mix of shame, anger, grief and confusion at the thought of being just a toy given to someone else (the sentence "I'm not even a person, I'm just a thing", very harsh, is even pronounced) and on several occasions we have tears in our eyes to see her reject Lucifer.
Her duo never seen before in the show with Amenadiel works very well, the two having in common wisdom, quiet strength, gentleness and kindness, all their scenes with the nuns are hilarious, and what they will experience and discover during this investigation together will bring the angel to an overwhelming revelation: it was not him that the nuns saw, but their own faith; which means that, in the same way, it is not Lucifer that all these one-night lovers unable to resist his charm see, but themselves, their own selfish desires... and Chloe has never been sensitive to his charm!
Yes, it's the man who he is that she sees and loves, their love is real! There is no celestial magic whatsoever between them after all, which also means that it is not she who makes Lucifer artificially vulnerable, but he who has chosen, sincerely, to open up to her, out of love... It is a simply wonderful idea, which even Lucifer, far from digging his heels like he would have done before, approves with undisguised happiness when Chloe slips into his house that night to talk to him about it, and that's what finally reconciles them: if he loves her enough to surrender to her, then she is ready to surrender to him; all reluctance defeated, they kiss at last, at last!, their first real kiss as a couple, and it is with tears of joy that we leave them embraced when this nice episode ends...
Review of Detective Amenadiel
