Lucifer

It's good to be bad.

RELEASED 25 Jan 201671h 55m · 93 episodes★ 8.4 TMDB

Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

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A separate DC/Vertigo adaptation. Start with season 1 and continue through season 6; other DC films and series are not prerequisites.

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A separate adaptation of Lucifer Morningstar; useful for comparison, but unrelated to Lucifer’s story continuity.

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