Lucifer Season 1

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Bored with wasting time in the deepest pits of hell, Lucifer has abdicated and now resides here on Earth, indulging in all forms of guilty pleasures: women, wine and parties. But the most terrifying turn is yet to come when he finds himself developing the most spine-chilling human trait of them all – emotion.

The cult of the television anti-hero reaches its logical conclusion with Lucifer (Amazon Prime), which features Beelzebub himself as the main character. On a career break, the Devil has absconded to Los Angeles where he and a sassy lady-cop team up for a series of unlikely crime-fighting adventures. They’ve gone and made CSI: Satan.

The absurd premise is redeemed by the casting of former EastEnders/Miranda actor Tom Ellis as Old Nick. On British television, Ellis’s cruel good looks and bulb-blowing charisma perhaps counted against him, as he never threatened to advance beyond supporting player. Starring in a slick and shallow American procedural, however, he burns up the screen. Beaming behind acres of stubble Ellis brings just the right mix of smarm and raffish self-awareness, topped off with a Jeremy Irons-grade evil toff accent.

– Ed Power

Here come the 76th annual Golden Globes, whose mysterious group of 90-some Hollywood Foreign Press Association members somehow have stood the test of time and taunting.

NBC reclaimed the awards in 1996 after ceding them to TBS. A few years later, Hollywood correspondent Aljean Harmetz wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the Globes had become more or less “respectable” after “years of being ridiculed as a bunch of part-time journalists and full-time freeloaders who would sell their votes for a vodka tonic and cross the Alps for a hot dog.”

But as recently as 2014, actor Gary Oldman slammed the Globes anew as a “meaningless event” sponsored by “90 nobodies having a wank. Everybody’s getting drunk, and everybody’s sucking up to everybody. Boycott the f***ing thing. Just say we’re not going to play this silly game with you anymore.”

Then came the January 2018 ceremony, in which Oldman won a Globe for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. He showed up, accepted his trophy with gratitude and made no reference to his previous call for a boycott. Plus, he’ll be a presenter during the Sunday, Jan. 6th ceremony on NBC. Funny how that works.

-ED BARK

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Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR – Not Rated
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: August 23, 2016
Run Time: 560 minutes