Lucifer Season 2 Shortened; Four Standalone Episodes Now Part of Season 3
Debi Moore
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A bit of a shakeup has taken place with regard to Fox’s popular series “Lucifer,” but it’s nothing too major… just a slight shuffling of Season 2’s last four episodes, which have been described as “completely standalone” in nature, to later in the year.
Confused? Here are the details per Futon Critic, who broke the news, and TVLine, who expanded it…
Fox has decided to shorten Season 2, which returns on Monday, May 1st, to 18 episodes, resulting in a season finale on May 29th. As for those four “standalone” eps, they’ll kick off Season 3 in the fall.
As co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich told TVLine previously, one of them is “a flashback to Lucifer first arriving [in Los Angeles].”
Modrovich’s co-showrunner Joe Henderson explained in a series of tweets (see most of them below) that the four episodes “also pick up plots we’ve introduced and bring in new stuff we’ll play with [in] season 3… They won’t feel very standalone because they are so character focused… End of season 2 is still exactly what we planned. And it is CRAZY awesome, if you don’t mind me saying so.”
For #Lucifer, we will be airing the last 5 episodes of season 2 in May! 5 you say?? But the show is 22?? Where are my remaining 4 episodes?
— Joe Henderson (@Henderson_Joe) March 23, 2017
Well, we designed this season to be an 18 episode arc because we originally were going to be 18 episodes. But then we got 4 more! Surprise!
— Joe Henderson (@Henderson_Joe) March 23, 2017
So we decided to create four episodes that let us play around a bit. Dig deeper into the character stories, play with format a bit, etc.
— Joe Henderson (@Henderson_Joe) March 23, 2017
We didn’t know whether they’d air this season or next until now. Now we do. So bad news is you need to wait for them. And I know that sucks.
— Joe Henderson (@Henderson_Joe) March 23, 2017
But the good news is we’ll have at LEAST 22 episodes of Lucifer next season. Maybe 26?? Probably 24? Hard to say this early #Lucifer
— Joe Henderson (@Henderson_Joe) March 23, 2017
“Lucifer” stars Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Rachael Harris, DB Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro, Aimee Garcia, Tricia Helfer, and Scarlett Estevez. The series is based upon the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg for Vertigo, from DC Entertainment.
“Lucifer” is produced by Warner Bros. Television, in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Aggressive Mediocrity. Tom Kapinos (“Californication”) wrote and executive produced the pilot. The series is executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Ildy Modrovich, and Joe Henderson. Len Wiseman serves as director and executive producer. Kapinos serves as executive consultant on the series.
In the all-new spring premiere of “Lucifer,” “Candy Morningstar,” airing Monday, May 1 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), on FOX, Lucifer (Ellis) has gone off the grid and cut off all contact from his family and the police department, following Chloe’s (German) near-death. But the murder of an up-and-coming guitarist causes him to resurface – with a new mystery woman. Meanwhile, Lucifer’s mom (Helfer) realizes she may have found a way to finally get them back to Heaven.
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