Lucifer: The Complete Series - Blu-ray Review

[Michael Scott]

Lucifer: The Complete Series



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Movie
In line with their typical practices, Warner Bros. has farmed out their long-running hit show (well, at least they’re the physical media production company), Lucifer, to their MOD line for a full series release this January. And like most of these sets, they’re absolutely fantastic for space-saving, getting into the series for the first time, and a boon for completionists, with the typical caveat of using those crisscross disc holders in a DVD-height case (grumble, whine, nitpick).

Born from the comics (and was surprisingly not on The CW with Arrow, The Flash, etc.), the Prince of Darkness himself descends to L.A. in order get a break from his punishment of ruling hell for countless millennia. After spending years being a veritable playboy in the city of sin, “Luci” (Tom Ellis) is captivated by lovely police detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German), gets sucked into the world of criminals and miscreants, wherein he uses his powers to track down and punish people for their literal crimes on earth.

Part police procedural, and part supernatural drama, Lucifer was that show where this reviewer ended up liking it a LOT more than he thought he would. My first thought upon checking out a few episodes back in 2016-2017 was that it was just another police procedural with a goofy gimmick (most procedurals have a gimmick that makes it stand out from the vast majority of other similar procedurals), and in this case, the gimmick was “da debil”! And in many ways, I wasn’t wrong. Lucifer plays out very much like a typical police procedural for the first two seasons, with Lucifer’s big secret playing as a back story for the episodic nature of the show. But it’s really season 3 where the show takes off, adding more and more dark elements to the series, culminating with a battle between Lucifer and biblical Cain (played wonderfully by Smallville’s Tom Welling)….and this is where we are almost to the last of the series. AS you may know, Fox is notorious for canceling shows WAY before their expiration date (it’s almost a fetish for them, I swear), and guess what? Fox canceled Lucifer after the 3rd season, just after Chloe finds out about the REAL Lucifer.

But thankfully for everyone, Netflix stepped in and pulled a Longmire, taking up the series and finishing it out for a full 6 seasons. End result? Some good, some bad. In many ways, I actually liked the first 3 seasons a bit more, with an emphasis on more humor and the police procedural elements. Seasons 4-6 became more serialized, with a darker element to the show after being taken off broadcast television. Not so much that it was massively problematic, but enough to where you can actually feel the tonal change between seasons 1-3 and 4-6 pretty noticeably. But at the same time, Netflix pushed the series into a darker state of mind, which worked really well for the conflicts to come in the 5th season. My only real complaint about the series is that by the time Season 6 came around, the show had run out of gas. I get that they had a predetermined ending that the show runners REALLY wanted to get to, but the show had adapted and expanded so much that the sixth season had to be sort of shoehorned in to GET to that ending, and the audience felt it big time. It’s not some horrible How I Met Your Mother situation; the final season is easily the most awkward and messy season the show had to offer, and this coming from a huge fan of the series.

For a full breakdown of (most) of the rest of the show, my individual season reviews can be found below

Lucifer: Season 2 - DVD Review

Lucifer: Season 3 - DVD Review

Lucifer: Season 4 - Blu-ray Review

Lucifer: Season 5 - DVD Review

Lucifer: Season 6 - Blu-ray Review










Rating:

Rated TV-14 by the MPAA




Video:

Being that SOME of my reviews were for the Blu-ray and SOME were for the DVDs, I figured it behooved me to go through all 6 seasons and do a singular video score review for you guys. Generally, the series looks fairly homogeneous on Blu-ray via Warner Archive (who usually does FANTASTIC work with their encodes), with only a few seasons showing a minor dip in quality due to compression (season 5 was a 4/5 while all the rest were obvious 4.5/5’s). Fine details look great all around, with soft ambers and dark blues as the majority of the colors, combined with splashes of dark maroon reds. Once more, I must reiterate that the Blu-rays absolutely destroy the DVDs that I’ve reviewed, and the upgrade to HD is well worth it in this case (though the greedy part of me really wishes we could have a 4K with Atmos release, as that’s what we had in the Netflix stream).







Audio:

Audio fluctuates between 4/5 and 4.5/5 (with a slight lean towards 4.5/5, which is where my final score rating for the show will land on). The first season or two is a bit more laid back than later seasons, mainly due to the fact that the heavy lifting in the surrounds and LFE channel comes from Luci’s and Amenadiel’s powers being used, and that is a lot more sparing in the first couple of seasons compared to seasons 3-6. Depth and clarity of vocals are great, with some moderate LFE throughout the show. Overall, the series maintains a very healthy audio bitrate, great surround usage in later seasons, and an overall great TV-watching experience.




Extras:

Season 1:
• Deleted Scenes
• Character Profiles
• 2015 Comic-Con Panel
• Devilish Du
• Lucifer Morningstar
• Gag Reel

Season 2:
• Comic-Con Panel
• Reinventing Lucifer in the City of Angels
• Gag Reel
• Deleted Scenes

Season 3:
• Lucifer: 2017 Comic-Con Panel
• Lucifer Returns! Bringing the Hit Show to L.A.
• Off Script with Tom & Tom – Actors Tom Ellis (“Lucifer”) and Tom Welling (“Lieutenant Marcus Pierce”) interview one another on their roles and life on the set of Lucifer.

Season 4:
• Deleted Scenes

Season 5:
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel

Season 6:
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel

Final Score: ​

Despite the 6th season being past the series sell-by date, the show is remarkably light-hearted and fun for the subject matter. Tom Ellis absolutely OWNS the role of Lucifer, and it adds a fun twist for those of us who like police procedural shows. As someone who watched part of the show on DVD and part on Blu-ray, it’s finally nice to have a complete collection of the series in HD for the first time. And once more, my only real complaint of the SET (not the last season of the show) is that Warner is still using those DVD height mega pack disc holders instead of individual season Blu-ray cases. Something that bugs me as a collector. That being said, this is still a VERY solid set, simply repackaging all 6 seasons in one space-saving container without leaving anything out extras-wise, or making a new, more compressed disc. Solid thumbs up from me.


Technical Specifications:

Starring: Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro, D. B. Woodside, Aimee Garcia, Lesley-Ann Brandt
Created by: Tom Kapinos
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 HEVC
Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH
Studio: Warner Brothers
Rated: TV-14
Runtime: 5580 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: January 20th, 2026

Recommendation: Recommended

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