Lucifer 215 + 216 "Deceptive Little Parasite" & “God Johnson”

But the bookmarking of Deceptive Little Parasite , of a menadil hitting Lucifer in the face , and also there's , you know , menadils , well , let me try . And so the goddess is saying well , no , your brother's a Lightbringer and you can see that .

So we have that aspect of the brothers at the beginning of that episode and I see that constantly . There is so much wrestling in my house , so much wrestling , and it's just , like I have said , I don't think that small boys and I suspect it's probably true of sisters as well , I just don't observe it . But they're not actually , you know , human children .

They're a series of puppies in clothing , like there's just , you know , several puppies like in a trench coat , I don't . I don't know how it works .

But then you also have the book end of that episode , when Lucifer is finally like feeling the pain of thinking that he had this real connection with Chloe and feeling like it's not real and his overwhelming grief at it , which Tom Ellis acts the hell out of that scene with not a single word , and you feel that heartbreak and some of it is that the goddess is

not in a position to see him . But some of it is also just that a menadil truly loves Lucifer and he sees that pain and he sees him . He's the whole human or not human , divine , the whole person and wants to protect him . And that aspect of this brotherhood really gets me too , because I see that as well .

I'm thinking of and this is not my finest moment as a parent , but so you know the goddess , for selfish reasons or self preservation reasons , is yelling at Lucifer try harder , and I'd like to believe that if she'd seen his face she wouldn't have done that . But it reminded me of my eldest . Not exactly a stoic , he does not believe in suffering in silence .

He had an ear infection and I know that those are intensely painful . But this child is cried wolf , like he stubs his toe and he screams , like he's lost a limb , like I'm not exaggerating this child just over sells it . So I've lost a lot of the compassion , that , the maternal care that I would like to have for my children when they're in pain .

And there was a day not that long ago when he opened the fridge and there's something on top of the fridge and it fell on top of his head and I have no doubt that it hurt , but I had had enough at ease .

It's not that he screamed , it's that he screamed and then lay on the floor and screamed and screamed , and screamed , and screamed and screamed , and I was in the other room I think it was in the bathroom or something like that and like waiting it out and it didn't finish and I came out , like you know , with my hair had become snakes and I was not the best

mother I've ever been and I said where you stop , skyron , and like it's fine if it hurts , but stop , don't take it out , that's fine . You know ? Just really a plus parenting , you know , like mother of the year . The award is in the mail on my way .

Meanwhile my little guy , his little brother , who is the bane of his existence , who had been sitting beside him kind of like rubbing his bigger brother's head , looked up at me and says mom , stop screaming , stop screaming at him , he's hurt . Which is what like oh my God , what a terrible parent I'm being .

But it was almost exactly like this moment in the show , in that like I had to have my other son look at me and say like stop this , stop , stop doing it . And particularly my little guy is really close to me and is one who's not going to like my big guy is the one who's gonna really have fun with that teenage rebellion .

He's gonna be snarky and mean and not have any thought to the fact that I'm his mom . My little guy is the one who , like , is just like , no , don't do that , she's my mom . Like , that's how he is . So for him to , on his brother's behalf , say , mom , stop it .

Well , first of all , it stopped me in my tracks and secondly , it also , like , just reminded me of how people who can be at each other's throats constantly have each other's back when it really matters .

Lucifer does not pull away from a Menadil when a Menadil puts his hand on his shoulder to comfort him . It was subtle but I appreciated it .

It resonated like it read as plausible and accurate and like there are moments in the show sometimes where I'm like I don't know , that one wasn't one of them , that one just felt real Emotionally , it just really it resonated and it got to .

And he's like the brothers , the relationship between the brothers , and there's something about that sibling relationship and I don't think that it's necessarily about like gender or brothers or something like that , but you see it more often among male siblings than you do among female siblings , or two female siblings or non-binary or anything like that .

But that like , add each other's throats but have each other's back . That like I'm gonna hit you out of nowhere here , you hold it , I'm gonna kick you right in the nuts . And like we , when we had , whatever scuffles we had , they were very rarely physical as I can recall .

I mean , I think some of that is just we kind of outgrew it younger , cause that's girls often do so , they say , but some of it is just that's just not how we interacted with each other . But there's something about boys and brothers that like last into adulthood in a way . That is just stupefying , cause I don't understand it . But also so it's so resonant .

I love seeing it . I love seeing the depth of their caring for each other .

Like she introduces herself as Trixie Morningstar to the school folks and then like we know that Chloe is like , the school knows that Chloe is her mom , clearly , and then Mays comes in as Chloe's current like . I guess the school believes that Chloe and Lucifer are like divorced parents .

That's gonna make things like the whole process is gonna be a little bit less streamlined , yeah , and maybe like the left hand isn't talking to the right hand , yeah , and , and then , as she's introducing herself , that's like it's other parents who she's introducing herself to , like the person who , like I'm on the whatever committee , the I don't remember the person

who she introduced herself to and who's right , the woman who's like I don't have time for a job . Yeah , no , oh , no , no , no , the , even the first one , when she , but , yes , like , oh , I wish I had time for a job .

And like , yeah , exceptional child exhausting mother who says that that's not a saying , but even the when she , like , checks in , like I think that that was a parent volunteer , right , okay , and that's another aspect of it . So , like you know , the parent yeah , yeah , okay , all right .

But let's , let's talk about Trixie , about her opening up , I mean kind of randomly , why mean she was invited to , but why she Actually ?

But I do think that there is something to a kid who is feeling overwhelmed about something about their parents and feeling like she can't talk to them because it's there who she's worried about . When she's in a place that feels safe , and like she's with Lucifer , like I don't like that she would have done that without Lucifer being there .

So I can see that being a realistic emotionally , that she would it's plausible , at least I don't know if it's realistic , but it's at least plausible . It's more plausible , yeah . And then , even when she's like I can tell you anything , Well , what I want to tell you is I want Lucifer to drive me to school .

That actually felt like , oh yep , that would be right where it goes . And you're like Wanting to open up with you kiddo , and you want to hang out with my weird friend , yeah , who is going to let you drive his 1967 Corvette . What here eight ? This is not okay . And I appreciate that Trixie saw through the school .

I mean , I have no doubt that the children at that school get a good education , but there was a lot of pretense . There's a lot of pretense there and a lot of and a lot of performance .

Yeah , like the mother who they end up interviewing , who like spills the beans that the pe teacher Because something every night with the parents you know she's rubbing dirt , garden dirt on the root vegetable shoes buys at the grocery store .

I don't have any idea what Los Angeles public schools are like , but it's like is this really what's going to be best for your kid ?

I don't know I this gets into my thing on like I truly believe that for the most part , your kid is going to get a good education , no matter where they are , no matter what school they're in , no matter how bad the school district .

And I believe that because when I worked in the Boys and Girls Club in Columbus Ohio , which is a very , very low income district , with the battered old textbooks I mean all the typical stuff I had teachers showing up at the Boys and Girls Club because they knew that their students would be there to make sure that they got what they needed education wise .

Yeah , we're currently saying is the . You know , like all of those things aren't necessarily about class and privilege . Like , I agree with you that in the show that was definitely what they were leaning on in this episode they were leaning on class and privilege .

But sanctum omni is not only like that kind of mom shaming between moms is not only about class and privilege . I don't think .

One of my theories is that , as every generation moves forward in some way with feminism and equal rights for people who have been marginalized , there's always steps forward , and then there is a backlash that appears to have nothing to do with it , and so things like shaming moms for leaving their kids in the car and doing things that our parents thought was

completely normal , letting our kids come home , walk home by themselves and be be latchkey kids you know all of that . That is like , oh , you want to have it all . You want to be a parent and have a career and do all of this Great .

You also have to make sure that you're watching your kid every moment of every single day , or else you're going to be judged .

And so and there is some class and privilege in that because the people who are most often to be judged that way including with things like bottle feeding and pacifiers are the parents who don't have the time to devote to things like breastfeeding if it's not going well , or weaning from a pacifier .

If you're sending a kid to daycare on a regular basis because you have to go to work , you know those are things you need to have time to do , and time is a marker of class and privilege .

So I'm just thinking about the fact that he was embezzling the money , because that entire school was all about pretentious .

You know that , like he came to at the end with Linda and then , and then the scene that you actually started us with , where he feels the depth of the grief and pain in order to try and ignite the sword , but that sort of the only way through is through feels like kind of like an undercurrent that comes up again and again and again in this show .

But you know , now that I'm in my 40s , I'm like , yeah , it's , there's definitely something to that .

Yeah , but like once you , once you let go of the idea that there's a shortcut , that there's another way around , that there's a different way of doing it , and just say like , okay , I just need to accept that it's not going to be fun , that this is I just have to do .

This is kind of freeing in a way , even though you're not able to hear it when you're in HR .

He did a great job . He's fantastic .

He calls Lucifer Samayel when he first meets him , which is a name which I , because of my overthinking it for light bringers , I've learned is a word that is avoided being said among Orthodox Orthodox Jews , so it's interesting that he calls him that . But then he changed his name to God , which is not . There's nothing divine about that , God's name yes , it is .

It's an , it's so late .

Even if you capitalize it and are referring to Hashem , right , it's still , it's just an English word , right ? Right , it's a placeholder word in a way .

I mean , it made for a good story on a television show , but when I'm overthinking it , that's not the name , even like . Hashem well been more likely , which means literally the name in Hebrew , because humans are not supposed to pronounce the name , they're the four letter name .

So I mean , by not having God Johnson take that name , the four letter name then they're avoiding like a major taboo in some religions . Yeah , yeah .

Right , so like if it had been an Orthodox Jew or a Muslim , or you know , or or a Right .

When they meet with their sisters , they call them sister and it happens multiple times so that it is not and like the thing is . Calling your brother . Brother is a little less weird to our ears than calling your husband Like I don't . I don't say hey husband , whereas , like , I'll say sister or something If I see you .

They have set up this convention in a way for celestials and it makes sense that the first versions of these relationships would use those titles in the same way that we will . Like you know , I'll call our aunts and uncles and uncle , not just that , but with their name .

And you can understand why Lucifer , despite evidence of the contrary , is like this is my father , you know , like we're doing things , like they duck , like one of the throne pieces of underwear , like in tandem , and I have no idea how they choreographed it . It's mind boggling .

And the director , whose name I am blanking on , but the director does some of my favorite episodes of Lucifer . Lucifer just does an amazing job , with not only all of what's going on , because you can watch that scene over and over again and see something new each time .

Like there's a I don't know how I missed it , but there's an orderly who's got to be like four and a half feet tall and someone , like one of the patients , is holding him at bay with his yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .

What I appreciate about this episode and I think there's one wrong note , which is it doesn't feel quite right , but otherwise , throughout the episode they are really compassionate and careful . For one thing , the doctor seems to be complete mensch , the one who was a crush on Chloe . What a mensch . I wish he could have been a regular character .

Maybe not a regular character because there's not enough there , but he was just a sweetheart . He clearly loved his work . He clearly cared about his patients . He had a sense of humor about what he did and was able to not only be the job there's so much there .

It was like he's a fully rounded character who only had what like 10 minutes of screen time , and that creates this really nice opening to be understanding of these people as individuals , which is exactly how he says it . He's like I don't look at them as a DSM .

They're people and Lucifer , other than that one line which is just like ew is also like he plays along with , like when he's playing cards with them they don't have cards .

I mean that sounds wonderful , I want the underwear . It's great , you know , like that's not gonna hurt anybody , fling underwear to your heart's content .

And I appreciate that , in part because I appreciate how the show as a whole handles mental health and also just because it would be so easy , with a murder set in a mental institution , for it to be one of the patients to be the killer . And it was someone who had no mental illness whatsoever that we could tell .

That scene in particular , with the feathers and the bell and the music underneath of it . It's just lovely the fact that Linda helps them escape using her own name , which we don't know quite yet .

That gets to something I talked about early on , which is Lucifer says like I'm walking heroin , nothing good could come of getting involved with me and nothing bad particularly happened because she was involved with him sexually . But there was that point early on where he says to her don't you want to help me ? And like does the Imojo ?

And that was the episode she went from like lusting after him to wanting to help him as a patient and I feel like this is the kind of like she does things that are very much against her ethical code in helping him get out and her own personal self-preservation because of that Imojo .

Yeah , you know , like a Spando Bellé is very much our sweet 16 parties and stuff like that , and then you're too good to be true feels like the throwback music they'd play at our sweet 16 and prompts and stuff like that .

So they do acknowledge the fact that this is not in fact what it was like , but I don't know , it's just , it's so you know I mean , and they acknowledge that by having Linda say you're parent , trapping the God in .

Yeah , and she's like are you sure this is about revenge ? She's like , of course it is . And like the way that he's looking . It's just like , no , that's the child of divorce who's like maybe mommy and daddy will love each other again . Yeah , yeah , yeah .

So it's really cringy and also like really confusing . Like a menadil's behavior while they're all on the couch is so confusing . I like the shape of your head . That actually made the most sense out of everything that happened .

He was like in the guy's space , you know , like took pizza off of his place and like like in his space to like reach for the wine and like staring at , like , just like , really which I guess I mean a menadil wants Lucifer and Chloe to get together , I guess because he knows how Lucifer feels about her .

Well , and maybe it was that kind of delay just trying to like discourage the dude , but it was really confusing to me .

I'm wondering if it's also like a menadil got the idea that that's what Maze was trying to do and so he's trying to scare her off because he's there , because he's realizing he's going to miss Maze Right , and so like maybe it's a jealousy of a maze thing , but yeah , it's .

I actually found that I like the shape of your head the most , the least confusing , Because then both sitting there with two black shaved heads of similar complexion , like he remarked on the fact that they have two shaved heads of similar complexion , but like all of the other behavior was just like what the heck is happening here Like what are you thinking ?

What ? What ? Yeah , you know . And like in the kitchen , when they sort of step away and he like takes the dishes back out of the dishwasher that May's threw in there , just throws them , like that made sense , like he understands how dishwashers work better than May's , but like yeah , I don't know it really , it just confused me .

It's not a character driven moment , I guess that's it . Yeah , it really was about like making us as uncomfortable as possible .

Yeah , I also get very uncomfortable with the kind of deception that Chloe is doing , particularly because this , this doctor , has been nothing but sweet and above board and so much . So , like the way that she's using him is . It just also makes me very uncomfortable in a way . That's not , you know , secondhand embarrassment , any other fluff .

To take us out the PE teacher who like witnesses this whole like the bad guy monologuing , and it's not until Lucifer says to him I take your child out of this . He's like I'm a father . Cool , yeah , I can serve this whole thing . Yeah , so we have over thunk it quite a bit for the fluff .

I would like to talk about May's being Chloe's wingwoman in every way .

Like I love that when she shows up she says look , I'm not good with the emotional stuff , but I don't let my gal go into enemy territory alone , right , and like it's something I appreciate because , like there are different ways of showing up for someone you care about , and May's cannot show up for Chloe emotionally , but she can literally show up and help her ,

help her see where her insecurity is blinding her and help her put together a pretty good plan . Except , why were they not staking out the car from the beginning ? Right , right , holy , you stake out the car the moment you present the plan in place . But whatever , it's a TV show . Yeah that .

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