Warning: This story contains spoilers for Lucifer season 5B.

Lucifer‘s showrunners explain how the end of season 5B changed when Netflix gave the series a surprise season 6 renewal. This past weekend, Lucifer returned to Netflix with 8 episodes to wrap up its fifth season. It picked up with the long-awaited arrival of God (Dennis Haysbert), who visited the earthly plane with a mission: To choose one of his sons to be his successor. Lucifer season 5, part 2 was packed with major, emotional twists and set up a final season that promises to be quite different than what came before. And yet, season 6 originally wasn’t supposed to happen.

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When Netflix picked up Lucifer, it was already prolonging the show’s life. Fox cancelled Lucifer after three seasons, but fan enthusiasm inspired Netflix to order two more seasons. Season 5 was expected to be the last for Lucifer. However, when star Tom Ellis signed a new contract last year, the streaming service granted the show an additional run. Though it remains without a release date, Lucifer season 6 completed production earlier this year, meaning the end is really and truly nigh.

Lucifer showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich sat down with TVLine to break down all the major developments of season 5B and look ahead to season 6. Right away, they were asked about how the end of season 5B was altered by the surprise renewal. Fans might be a bit shocked to know that little was changed, since the showrunners realized they had the perfect endpoint already written. As Modrovich explained:

Surprisingly, [where we left off] was the easiest endpoint, in the middle of such a curveball. When they said, “Let’s have another season,” that was an easy one because the end of Act V of that episode was Lucifer becoming God, and we realized that that was such a great cliffhanger. [In the original series finale] a lot happened in Act VI, obviously, but we just kind of lopped it off. And [Lucifer becoming God] became the end of 5B.

Henderson went on to say they didn’t add any scenes at the end to set up a season 6, and that the only changes to be made were due to COVID-related production issues. “As far as everything else, we just looked at the episode and were like, ‘Hey, that’s a pretty good note to end on,'” Henderson said. “It wraps up so much of the story to be told this season, which is always so important to us, but makes you go, ‘I’m coming back for that.'” Considering how game-changing the “Lucifer is now God” twist is, one has to wonder what Act VI originally looked like in the season 5B finale. With season 6, Lucifer will have the chance to fully explore the ramifications of that change. Before the renewal, though, the series wouldn’t have dug too deep into Lucifer’s fascinating new job.

Luckily, Lucifer will return for 1o more episodes that will properly draw the series to a close. Though they did not originally plan for it, Henderson and Modrovich have crafted a new storyline that has been described as a love letter to fans. As season 5 just came to an end, Lucifer season 6 likely won’t arrive until later this year at the earliest. In the meantime, fans can mull over what that final twist means for the show’s end and look forward to watching it all unfold over on Netflix.

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Source: TVLine

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