While the title of this episode might have sexual connotations, it’s more of the act of Lucifer playing detective for this episode’s crime. A woman registered to an elite dating app suddenly dies, and complaints from the app explain that she is a “nobody” who never should’ve had the authorization to join. During this episode, Lucifer himself is having a hard time feeling like a “nobody,” after a quiet night in and his colleagues saying that he’s becoming normal. Well, the devil will be damned! Luci can’t deal with being boring, it is so out of character for him. Lucifer plays detective when Chloe goes to a meet up with the people on the elite dating app, her of course playing Lucifer. She’s not used to sexualizing herself so of course she’s having a rough time. This whole episode is all over the place, but between Chloe’s good detective work and Lucifer’s distraction about being boring, they solve the case. Lucifer spends a great deal of this episode being melancholic about being boring, as he is so interesting. We know this, of course. He wonders how the victim, a shoe, as he calls her, could ever gain the interest of the man on the elite app who wanted her. The man says it’s nice to not fake yourself and that he could be himself around her, which baffles Luci. Obviously. By the end of this episode, Lucifer decides there is nothing wrong with being boring… but he’s not boring. The end scene shows him attempting to play Monopoly with a scantily clad woman who refuses to play, then him following her to bed. To do Lucifer things, duh.
This episode shows us that while Lucifer is full of himself (like the last episode explained), he is still desperate to be anything but boring. It would seem that to be a man, Lucifer has to be interesting. His inhumane attractiveness should be enough, but he prides himself on how many facets he has to that contradictory diamond that is him. There’s nothing wrong with being boring, he decides, except there is, because he could never be boring. Strange, the way his mind works. Spending a night in is too much for him, it would seem, even if it was only one night. So the sexual inhibitions continue, despite his affections for Chloe, the woman he wants but can never have. Much like normal men, he indulges in what he can have to make up for the deep hole that craves what he cannot have. A nice comment in this episode is how Lucifer compares himself to a skillet in how he can turn a straight man into, well, not straight. So elusive is the mind of this guy! It seems like the traits we give to masculine men, to “real men,” don’t apply to Lucifer, ever. He is a strange creature, one we are eager to figure out.
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