Fox Cuts "Lucifer's" 2nd Season Short, 4 Standalone Eps. Set for Fall

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"Lucifer's" Season to Be Cut Short, Four Standalone Episodes Saved for Fall
by Matt Webb Mitovich
March 23, 2017


What the… blazes? Fox is cutting short "Lucifer‘s" sophomore run, saving the final four of the 22 produced episodes for Season 3, TVLine has confirmed.

The scheduling switch-up, which trims Season 2’s tally to 18 episodes and places the finale on Monday, May 29, was first noted by Futon Critic.



“We have four episodes at the very end that … are going to be completely standalone episodes,” co-showrunner Ildy Modrovich told me in the course of answering an Inside Line reader question. One of them, she said, is “a flashback to Lucifer first arriving in Los Angeles.”

TVLine has since learned that the four, more character-focused episodes are not “100-percent standalone” but do pick up some current story points while teeing up new ones.



“We designed this season to be an 18-episode arc because we originally were going to be 18 episodes. But then we got four more! Surprise!” co-showrunner Joe Henderson explained on Twitter on Thursday.

“So we decided to create four episodes that let us play around a bit. Dig deeper into the character stories, play with format a bit, etc. We didn’t know whether they’d air this season or next until now. Now we do. So bad news is you need to wait for them. And I know that sucks.”

http://tvline.com/2017/03/23/lucifer...t-18-episodes/