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Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Tracie Guy-Decker & Emily Guy Birken
48 episodes
6 months ago
Send us a textIn the final episode of Lightbringers, the Guy girls still manage some significant overthinking. The storytelling leads them to some questions about how people who don’t feel remorse might be tortured in the Lucifer universe (in other words, what was the magic behind Lucifer’s whispered words to Lemec?). Additionally, the confines of telling a story with actors on a small screen lead to musings about the role our age plays in our identity (and a detour into Star Trek the Next Ge...
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Send us a textIn the final episode of Lightbringers, the Guy girls still manage some significant overthinking. The storytelling leads them to some questions about how people who don’t feel remorse might be tortured in the Lucifer universe (in other words, what was the magic behind Lucifer’s whispered words to Lemec?). Additionally, the confines of telling a story with actors on a small screen lead to musings about the role our age plays in our identity (and a detour into Star Trek the Next Ge...
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Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 609 + 610 “Goodbye, Lucifer” & “Partners ‘Til the End”
Send us a textIn the final episode of Lightbringers, the Guy girls still manage some significant overthinking. The storytelling leads them to some questions about how people who don’t feel remorse might be tortured in the Lucifer universe (in other words, what was the magic behind Lucifer’s whispered words to Lemec?). Additionally, the confines of telling a story with actors on a small screen lead to musings about the role our age plays in our identity (and a detour into Star Trek the Next Ge...
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1 year ago
1 hour 13 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 607 + 608 'My Best Fiend's Wedding' & 'Save the Devil, Save the World'
Send us a textIn this penultimate episode of Lightbringers, the Guy sisters continue to notice the moments and threads of season 6 that seem to point to a rushed (and self-amusing) writers’ room. From the unprofessional move of Linda’s book (why didn’t they just make it fiction?) to the disappointingly milquetoast Carroll, there are story and character beats that felt forced. At the same time, we deeply appreciate Chloe-as-audience-proxy in the conversation about how some people don’t have th...
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1 year ago
49 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 605 + 606 “The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar” & “A Lot Dirtier Than That”
Send us a textWith these two episodes we get some subtext about addiction and some supertext about racist policing. In “The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar,” the sisters realize on rewatch (especially in the context of our analysis of so many moments of mental health metaphors) that Chloe’s obsession with the super-strength the necklace provides is a stand-in for addiction. “A Lot Dirtier Than That” provides a big chunk of the story arc that serves as penance for the five seasons of copaga...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 603 + 604 “Yabba Dabba Do Me” & “Pin the Tail on the Daddy”
Send us a textAs season 6 progresses, the Guy sisters have some moments of joy and appreciation and quite a few quibbles for the writers. Though the cartoonified episode is in some ways delightful (Tracie wanted to be an animator when she was a kid), there are moments in the writing that feel either ableist or rushed (or both). The sisters note that it feels particularly hypocritical that the episode seems to judge Jimmy Barnes for being less-than rational/typical when the whole show is a day...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 601 + 602 “Nothing Ever Changes Around Here” & “Buckets of Baggage”
Send us a textAnd so begins the Guy sisters’ rewatch of Season 6: Nobody’s favorite season.With these two episodes, the sisters spend considerable time lamenting the fact that there are no media role models for people who are childless by choice, including, it seems, Lucifer. We also are perplexed and perturbed by multiple details of these two episodes, from Lucifer’s assertion that he is a “wonder-seeker” to what the heck is sexy about all the broken furniture to how Ella Lopez could be at a...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 515 + 516 “Is This Really How It’s Going to End” & “We Could Have Had a Happy Ending”
Send us a textThese two final episodes of season five pack and emotional wallup. With more than one major character death (though 2 don’t stay dead), the Guy girls both admit to shedding some tears, even in rewatch. The views we get of both Heaven and Hell have Emily and Tracie thinking deeply about the nature of punishment, the compatibility of justice with pain, and whether or not free will is worth the huge risk we face to have it. We help each other with head canon around why Mi...
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1 year ago
52 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 513 + 514 “A LIttle Harmless Stalking” & “Nothing Lasts Forever”
Send us a text“A Little Harmless Stalking” & “Nothing Lasts Forever” are ripe for overthinking, and the Guy girls do. These two stories invite meditations on the reconciliation of adult children and their parents, a scene that has become common in contemporary pop fiction, and which Tracie & Emily dub psychological or family dynamic fiction: art that creates an aspiration that isn’t true, yet, but could be because of the art. As is often the case in Lucifer, upon deeper refl...
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1 year ago
51 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 511 + 512 "Resting Devil Face" & "Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid"
Send us a text“Resting Devil Face” is a delightful romp the sisters want to revisit more often. “Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid” may be both of their least favorite. In “Resting Devil Face,” the celestial siblings’ relationship digs in to the very human experience of realizing one’s parent is vulnerable. In a satisfying dovetailing of the case-of-the-week and the celestial story line, we see the unintended consequences of parenting choices and also receive the Hollywood trope that so ...
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1 year ago
47 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 509 + 510 "Family Dinner" & "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam"
Send us a text“Family Dinner” and “Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam” deliver both some of the funniest and some of the most poignant moments of the whole series. With a general appreciation for the relatableness of so much of what happens between characters in these two episodes and a very specific appreciation for Tom Ellis’ collarbones, the Guy sisters overthink these two season five episodes.The sisters spend significant air time enjoying the Gen-X-appealing music, the commentary on paren...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 507 + 508 “Our Mojo” & “Spoiler Alert”
Send us a textOn rewatch, the Guy girls were reminded just how much they compartmentalize their memories about these two episodes. “Our Mojo” and “Spoiler Alert” provide delightfully fun and funny moments intermixed with grim details of the serial-killer-right-under-our-noses storyline. The sisters spend time teasing out the phenomenological and metaphorical mechanisms behind the supernatural elements of “Our Mojo,” including Lucifer’s emotional immaturity and the consequences of having ...
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1 year ago
38 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 505 + 506 “Detective Amenadiel” & “Blue Ballz”
Send us a text“Detective Amenadiel” and “Blue Ballz” are the only two episodes in this whole experiment that the sisters watched while in the same room, and they contain some of their most beloved and most reviled of the whole series. In their meanderings, the Guy girls think about the metaphor of reflection as used both visually and rhetorically in “Detective Amenadiel.” They ruminate on the badassery of Maze bounty hunting the object of Linda’s angst and thereby come up with the premis...
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1 year ago
41 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 503 + 504 "¡Diablo!" & "It Never Ends Well for the Chicken"
Send us a textThe layers of meta-commentary in the episode about a TV show where the actual devil is a consultant with the LAPD is lots of fun, and has the sisters wondering if Lucifer would have been more offended on Chloe’s behalf by turning her character into a stripper-turned-detective who doesn’t seem to be particularly bright. And the return of Lilith in a 1946 black-and-white mystery episode invites some exploration of the mythology of Lilith, the first human woman who became a mo...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 501 + 502 "Really Sad Devil Guy" & "Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!"
Send us a textIn our conversation about “Really Sad Devil Guy” & “Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!” we think a lot about the tropes and short cuts that come from soap opera storytelling. And we don’t hate it. Both sisters are impressed with Tom Ellis’s ability to make us believe he is, in fact, his own twin (even down to his butt cheeks!). Tracie picks apart a key plot point in the case of the week, and Emily uses some very graphic metaphors to describe her reaction to Ellis’ American acce...
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1 year ago
42 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 409 + 410 "Save Lucifer" & "Who's da New King of Hell?"
Send us a text“Save Lucifer” and “Who’s da New King of Hell?” allow the Guy Girls to overthink everything from acting vs. directorial choices, to the nature of sin and guilt, to the possibility of a “happy ending” for an immortal being in love with an all-too-human one. Tracie couldn’t wait to start the episode with her frustrations with Lauren German’s delivery of the emotional range required for Chloe’s (good, not great) dialogue, and we also spend significant time pondering the in-uni...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 407 + 408 "Devil Is as Devil Does" & "Super Bad Boyfriend"
Send us a text“Devil is as Devil Does” and “Super Bad Boyfriend” give some hints that the writers were wrestling with their copagandistic vehicle. However, there were also moments in these two episodes, especially in Chloe’s voice, that oversimplify the “rightness” of human justice. That they made these explorations around the death of a Black teenager is all the more topical (and will be returned to in season 6).These two episodes also tackle the experience of self-hatred that both sisters f...
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1 year ago
47 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 405 + 406 "Expire Erect" & "Orgy Pants to Work"
Send us a text“Expire Erect” (Die Hard, get it?) and “Orgy Pants to Work” turn out to be fantastic fodder for the Guy Girls’ particular brand of overthinking, and we did not hold back.Tracie had some THINGS to say about the mythology of Lilith (Maze’s mom), which led to some questions about who (and how) Lilith even is, and whether or not Lucifer could have been Eve’s “first time.” To answer those questions, we actually got a copy of the Bible off the shelf to check the chronology of what hap...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 403 + 404 "O, Ye of Little Faith, Father" & "All About Eve"
Send us a text“O, Ye of Little Faith, Father” and “All About Eve” bring some of Emily’s favorite moments of the whole series. The first provides deeply satisfying dramatic irony through Father Kinley’s (Graham McTavish) web of deception, the whole of which, only we the viewers see. The second gives delicious comfort to a devastated Lucifer (Tom Ellis) who fears he is unlovable but is embraced–in his devil face–by the biblical Eve (Inbar Lavi). There are also significant opportunities for...
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1 year ago
44 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 401 + 402 "Everything's Okay" & "Somebody's Been Reading Dante's Inferno"
Send us a text“Everything’s Okay” and “Somebody’s Been Reading Dante’s Inferno” contain one of the sexiest scenes in the whole series, some really comprehensible character behavior, and some mediocre delivery of that behavior.The sisters spend a disproportionate amount of time gushing over the first several minutes of “Everything’s Okay,” only to ease into an almost grudging appreciation for the task the writers set themselves by requiring the details of the cases in the procedural to map to ...
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1 year ago
42 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 325 + 326 "Boo Normal" & "Once Upon a Time"
Send us a text“Boo Normal” & “Once Upon a Time” interrupt the flow of the Deckerstar storyline. These two episodes, though both boasting solid storytelling, tend to get skipped, fast-forwarded, or otherwise maligned by fans who cannot wait to find out what happens after Chloe unequivocally learns the truth in “A Devil of My Word.” Tracie and Emily take some time to investigate and overthink these two “bonus” episodes. The sisters spend time overthinking in what proto-Semitic language...
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1 year ago
43 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Lucifer 323 + 324 "Quintessential Deckerstar" & "A Devil of My Word"
Send us a text“Quintessential Deckerstar” & “Devil of My Word” are so packed full of goodness to unpack we had to make notes for our conversation to make sure we didn’t miss anything. When it comes to storytelling, these episodes provide some deeply satisfying (and tear-jerking) character development, especially for Dan (Kevin Alejandro), Charlotte (Tricia Helfer), and Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt). When it comes to performance, they absolutely convince us that Tom Ellis actually has wing...
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1 year ago
37 minutes

Lightbringers: Illuminating the Deeper Meaning of the Crime-solving Devil TV Show
Send us a textIn the final episode of Lightbringers, the Guy girls still manage some significant overthinking. The storytelling leads them to some questions about how people who don’t feel remorse might be tortured in the Lucifer universe (in other words, what was the magic behind Lucifer’s whispered words to Lemec?). Additionally, the confines of telling a story with actors on a small screen lead to musings about the role our age plays in our identity (and a detour into Star Trek the Next Ge...