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‘Lucifer’ Season 2, Episode 14 review: ‘Candy Morningstar’

By Brittany Frederick

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LUCIFER: L-R: Guest star Lindsey Gort and Tom Ellis in the “Candy Morningstar” spring premiere episode of LUCIFER airing Monday, May 1 (9:01-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr: FOX

Fox’s ‘Lucifer’ is finally back after its winter hiatus, but can things go back to how they were? Of course not, and that’s why “Candy Morningstar” works.

Fans of Fox‘s Lucifer waited months to find out what would happen after the Devil drove out of Los Angeles (sounds like a song, doesn’t it?) and we finally got our answers on Monday with the show’s spring premiere.

“Candy Morningstar” picks up two weeks after the events of the previous episode, in which Lucifer saved his partner slash love interest Chloe Decker (Lauren German) but bailed on her after finding out that God had put her in his path. In those two weeks, things have gone a bit nuts.

Charlotte (Tricia Helfer) is ranting about her son to complete strangers at Lux. Chloe is pretending she’s over him as Dan (Kevin Alejandro) helps her investigate the murder of a rocker named Ash. (Love the way the camera lingers on a Supergirl billboard outside the crime scene. Nice cross-promotion between DC Comics shows.)

And the man himself has new arm candy—a stripper literally named Candy (guest star Lindsey Gort, who played the young Samantha in the Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries, for your second The CW connection of the episode.)

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The case of the week is entertaining enough, involving a bitter divorce, sneaky band members and a suspicious mediator, portrayed by Jonathan Togo (CSI: Miami‘s Ryan Wolfe). It’s a plot about a breakup when the show’s main team is breaking up, with the script taking that parallel to the next level by having Chloe pose as Candy during a fake mediation session.

And it includes plenty of the usual wit, even from the newest addition:

"Candy: I’m super good with faces. And other things."

But the real story of “Candy Morningstar” is Lucifer’s return and how everyone else reacts. Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt) is convinced that his actions are part of a larger plan, and she’s proven right when the last scene involves the discovery that Candy is actually not his spouse—she’s just someone he saved in Vegas who was doing him a favor to see what shook loose.

Dan becomes the voice of reason since he’s been through his own bust-up with Chloe, which is great because Kevin Alejandro is incredibly underrated. And then there’s Charlotte (Tricia Helfer), whose reactions continue to be one of the best things about Season 2. Just the expression on her face can make a scene.

Plus she drops a bombshell about the show’s mytharc, saying that they can in fact get back to the Silver City, which will obviously become another big turning point for the show (likely in the season finale that comes up in just a few weeks).

But Amenadiel (DB Woodside) brings the depth of the story as he susses out that Lucifer is, in fact, trying to protect Chloe by pushing her away. Under all the jokes and the cases of the week there’s a real heart beating in this show and it hasn’t gone anywhere.

“Candy Morningstar” is everything that audiences love about Lucifer but also creates a new place from which it can jump off. The show was dealt a bad hand when it had to take that long break to make room for APB, but it’s taken advantage of the pause to push its story forward. (Hopefully the viewers will come back and remember it’s on.)

The best scene, though, by a mile is Tom Ellis covering The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame” as one-part make-up song, one-part investigative ploy and actually improving upon the original. Check it out:

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What did you think of the spring premiere of Lucifer? Let us know what you thought about “Candy Morningstar” in the comments.

Lucifer airs Mondays at 9/8c on Fox.

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