“Lucifer” is a fun show to watch so long as you take it as it is — a work of fiction borrowing heavily from religion — and while it’s troubling to think unsuspecting people might receive their first impression of the devil from it and think, “Hey, the devil isn’t all that bad!” recognize that most of our first impressions of religious figures — angels, Moses, Jesus, God, Muhammad, etc. — don’t come from original sources and have been distorted in some way.

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes

Lucifer has a “super-power”: he can compel people to tell uncomfortable, inappropriate truths about themselves. (Enjoy kitten crush videos? You’ll tell him. You’ll *want* to.) Here we touch on one of the darkest aspects of the Internet: anonymous confession. How much evil has been unleashed in people’s hearts since they’re now able to freely confess evil desires behind a veil of anonymity and, worse, find others who are like-minded?

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

“In the beginning, the angel Lucifer was cast out of Heaven and condemned to rule Hell for all eternity. Until he decided to take a vacation….” That’s the show concept of “Lucifer” in a nutshell. Is it biblical? Only slightly. *Was* the angel Lucifer condemned to rule Hell for all eternity? No. That’s not biblical, that’s pop cultural.

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes