WiC reviews every single episode of Lucifer season 5, part 2

Season 5, Episode 11: “Resting Devil Face”

The fallout from God’s admission about losing control of his powers continues in “Resting Devil Face.” Lucifer and Amenadiel immediately confront their dear ol’ dad for answers, but he’s busy fixing the plumbing at Lux because why not? Amenadiel doesn’t think that things are as bad as Lucifer suggests, but when God shows up at a crime scene and announces that he has denounced his powers (temporarily), all hell breaks loose.

Chloe knows they can’t just leave God alone, and she suggests that father and son try to bond to get over their issues. This leads God to follow Lucifer around and make up for lost time by offering lots of praise for his son. This turns into a potentially deadly situation when God botches a sting operation. He can’t remember where he put his powers so he leaves to find them without revealing his whereabouts.

Meanwhile, Trixie has been dealing with some deep-rooted frustration about how Lucifer has been acting lately, so she decides to run away and that’s when she encounters God at the metro stop. Maze is closing in on God, intending to kill him, but when she hears Trixie’s conversation she finds she just can’t do it.

It turns out that God left his powers with Baby Charlie, and once his powers are restored he tells Maze she might have a soul after all, and he also thanks Dan for being there for Charlotte in ways he never could be. God is taking time to do these things because he believes it’s time to pass the torch. God needs to retire, but he stops short of naming a successor, leaving Amenadiel and Lucifer wondering who it should be.

The tone in “Resting Devil Face” is decidedly darker than the previous two episodes, but in a way it offers a much more hopeful tone as God starts to reveal that his children might be better off than they realized. He builds them up so that they’re prepared to deal with his retirement, proving that he’s willing to learn from past mistakes and help his sons to see how much he cares about them.

Despite all of this, Lucifer still can’t manage to pull the words together to express what Chloe means to him, but he definitely still cares about her and wishes he could tell her what he’s feeling.