Lucifer Season 5 Release Date, Cast, Episodes, Plot Details And ...

Lucifer Season 5 Episodes

Lucifer Season 5 will total 16 episodes, reflecting a post-order expansion. However, Netflix is lightening the binge load with a bifurcated release strategy. In a set visit piece for The Kelly Clarkson Show (seen immediately below), star Tom Ellis revealed that Season 5 will be released in split form, explaining, “Season 5 of Lucifer is going to be split into two halves. Netflix is going to drop eight episodes, there’s going to be a little break, and then they’re going to drop another eight more episodes.” On that note, here’s what’s known about Season 5’s storylines.

Lucifer is going the “Once More, with Feeling” route with Season 5, Episode 10, which will be called “Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam,” which, as the title implies, will be a musical episode, as revealed to EW.

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While no plot details were divulged, showrunner Ildy Modrovich confirms that it will contain multiple musical numbers, explaining “We wanted to have a real grounded story reason why they’re signing and dancing, and not just, ‘Oh, this is going to be the one where everybody sings and dance,’” adding, “It’s been a little game of Tetris [planning the episode] but it’s super fun. It’s going to be amazing. It’s going to be just such a bucket list thing for me.”

Interestingly, the musical will be preceded by a 1940s-themed offering for Episode 4, which is also confirmed to contain two song performances.

As they did during the build-up to Season 4, the creative coalition of Lucifer provided an early glimpse at the upcoming season’s premiere episode with a look at the script cover, which, besides the credits, uncovers the potentially plot-revelatory title, “Really Sad Devil Guy,” written by Jason Ning and directed by Eagle Egilsson.

What? A sad 😈 guy? Who could that be @jkning ? 🤔 #LuciferSeason5 #lucifer pic.twitter.com/MRLsCGoBNV

— Lucifer Writers Room (@LUCIFERwriters) August 29, 2019

It’s not hard to guess why said “Devil Guy” is really sad. After all, the Season 4 finale’s cliffhanger moment saw Lucifer reluctantly leave his comfy crime-solving L.A. existence for a return to his rather spartan accommodations as king of Hell; a sacrificial move made to circumvent a disastrous prophecy that was said to occur when Lucifer finds his first love, who he eventually realized was not Eve, but Chloe all along.

Interestingly, the title reveal also settles a guessing game started by showrunner Ildy Modrovich, who cheekily provided the hint of four words starting with R, S, D and G. She would provide a postmortem tweet on said guessing game, stating:

“Mystery solved!!! Although… my fav of the guesses might be: Rediscovering She Devil Goats.”

In July 2019, it was officially announced that Lucifer Season 5 landed extra episodes: six more, to be exact, expanding Season 5’s total to 16 episodes.