WiC reviews every single episode of Lucifer season 6
Lucifer 603 — “Yabba Dabba Do Me”
Lucifer heads into uncharted territory with “Yabba Dabba Do Me,” the highly anticipated animated episode of the series.
The episode begins with Linda writing a book that follows her adventures as Lucifer Morningstar’s therapist. She’s keeping it a secret for now, but she can’t help but frame her questions in a way that hints at what she’s doing.
Lucifer decides that he can’t be an effective ruler in heaven unless he’s able to forgive everyone. To test his theory, seeks out Jimmy Barnes, the man who shot Chloe in the first season, to see if he can forgive him. Chloe, drunk on the power she gained through Amenadiel’s necklace, wants to go to hell with Lucifer to help him work through his issues.
As it ends up, Jimmy’s hell loop is like nothing they’ve ever seen before. It’s a mix of an animated world and another world featuring peak 1980s imagery, both representative of Jimmy’s addled mental state. As Lucifer and Chloe explore his psyche they start to understand how his past, including a tragic moment with his mother, shaped the man he became. Lucifer’s sympathy for him helps both men move on so that they can both be better in the future.
Elsewhere, Rory brings Dan back to Earth as a ghost, and Amenadiel experiences his first day of field training. It’s a huge moment for Amenadiel as he starts to see the other side of police work.
In the final moments of the episode there’s a major revelation as Lucifer confronts Rory: she’s his daughter!
Thinking back to Rory’s first appearance in Episode 602, it makes sense that she’d have some special connection to Lucifer because her wings are blood red with sharp metal points at the end. Her presence is yet another barrier to his ascendance to heaven, because there’s no way he’s going to let this one go.
“Yabba Dabba Do Me” is the kind of episode that makes Lucifer what it is. At first pass it seems like an animated hell loop would be ridiculous, but it’s actually the perfect way to give Chloe room to use her new power, and it gives Lucifer an excuse to deliver some of his best one-liners to date.
Lucifer’s biggest strength as a series is that it leans into the insanity that comes with life among celestials and makes sense of it all. By the end of the episode it’s clear that this was the only way to tell the story. And it’s fun. It’s nice having fun knowing that there are troubled waters ahead.
