{"id":138639,"date":"2019-04-20T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138639"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:22:47","slug":"previously-on-lucifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/previously-on-lucifer.html","title":{"rendered":"Previously, on &#8220;Lucifer&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This show became one of my family&#8217;s favorites. It&#8217;s hardly\u00a0<em>Citizen Kane,<\/em> but it&#8217;s an entertaining supernatural police procedural, cop dramedy, will-they-won&#8217;t-they romance, and while we enjoy the cast as a\u00a0 whole, Tom Ellis is, frankly, superb as the Devil with a Confused Heart of Gold-Tone Alloy.<\/p>\n<p>The show,\u00a0<em>very<\/em> loosely based on the DC Vertigo title of the same name, was canceled on Fox after three seasons, but a campaign by fans and the producers got it picked up for a new season on Netflix (starting 8 May). Looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our dark lord and savior? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lucifer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lucifer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EEHIkrTk2a\">pic.twitter.com\/EEHIkrTk2a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucifer (@LuciferNetflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LuciferNetflix\/status\/1119269425872547841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The trailer in the tweet above gives a setup for the show, for those who haven&#8217;t seen it. (And, no, for those worried, the show doesn&#8217;t promote Satanism, any more than\u00a0<em>Hercules: The Legendary Journeys<\/em> promoted paganism.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re ready for the show&#8217;s return in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,40],"tags":[1683,1601],"class_list":["post-138639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-comics","category-media-tv","tag-lucifer","tag-savelucifer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Lucifer.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50978,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/lucifer-like-the-devil-exactly.html","url_meta":{"origin":138639,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Lucifer.&quot; &quot;Like the Devil?&quot; &quot;Exactly.&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-May-15 4:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, it's not quite as out there as the Vertigo comic, but there are some possibilities here. 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