Look at the rack on Lucy! Also, she has a show.
How did you spend your Thursday night? Did you go out with a woman? With a man? Stay home and cry? Watch Impact Wrestling and cry? I’m familiar with all of those options, so I have news for you. They all seem like wasted evenings compared to what I did. I spent an evening with Satan, the Anti-Christ, Jesus, Judas, pulled pork sandwiches, a murderous nun, a talking burrito, a teratoma , a monsternator, and we all visited a dildo factory. Beats the hell out of your night doesn’t it?
If you are wondering how I managed to do this in one night, one answer is that I have invented a way to travel through time and space and decided to pick up some weird stuff. The real answer is that all eleven episodes of Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil total up to be just over two hours in viewing time. You can’t pause or get up though, because then that window expands either 5 to 1,445 minutes. Of course, depending on what you’re doing.
Anyway, what am I supposed to be doing? Oh right, reviewing something. I was going to do a few shows, but since I’ve already done the whole Lucy open, I guess it was be a weird twist to start talking about Square Pegs or something. And yes, I’m way too young for that reference.
Let’s start off the screen for a second. I love this show and hate that it got cancelled. I loved Home Movies (expect that to get a review) and hate that it got cancelled. With that said, I’m completely fine with how they ended. Lucy could have run a long time, but somehow thinking of it as a mini-series rather than a cancelled show makes it better. The first episode sets up everything that happens exactly, with the big twist ending being set up from the very beginning. It also softens the blow that the people, cast and crew alike, went on to make Metalocalyspe and Bob’s Burgers, so I guess it’s a wash and everyone now actually makes money. Enough about that, we’ll dive into the real world again later.
It is a story as old as time. Satan and his helper Becky run a stock based company in California and when his daughter Lucy comes of age, he calls upon her to get involved in all the evil. If that isn’t humdrum enough, Jesus is a DJ and his right hand man Judas helps facilitate the ever expanding brand of the savior. I know this seems so run of the mill now it is getting boring, but there is one more plot point. Two priests and a nun, and a priest seen once in an eye patch, are trying to find Lucy and kill her. You know those kinds of clergymen, the ones that carry guns, knives, crossbows, and specialize in murdering vampires. I know, boring right? Nothing original is produced these days, but we’ll just push ahead anyways.
See? Just normal old crap.
In case you can’t understand sarcasm, or you happen to know of a bunch shows with this premise, Lucy is a very original show. I would imagine if it had garnered a big audience, it would have been pretty controversial too.
There is a lot of supposed murder in this show. Satan wants to kill Jesus. Lucy wants to kill sluts. The Priests want to kill Lucy. None of these targets are ever hit, but a lot of people die. Aside from all the murder and the serious themes the show looks to portray, it really is a very dialogue driven comedy. The cast contains some of the best kind of famous comedians I know. The reason the main character don’t die is mainly because everyone is just so silly and unmotivated. The priests are often found helping Lucy or Satan and Jesus are paling around and getting drunk.
The easiest way to recap such a short show is to go in order. It just makes sense. The very first episode sets up absolutely everything that you see the rest of the series. Now that’s writing folks. The Special Fathers, as they are dubbed, make their way to America to find and destroy the Anti-Christ. They also have possibly one of my favorite conversations ever regarding whether or not the Coast Guard ship they were on would have shaved cinnamon for the coco they were drinking. Trust me; I tried to find a clip as hard as I could. Alongside this, Lucy is just trying to live a normal life, but her father is starting to try to get the evil out of her. Satan tries to pair her up with one of his followers, Senator Whitehead, so when he helps him becomes president; Lucy will be the first lady, and Satan can rule the world. Sadly, on the date, she can’t stand the Senator and his huge dick, and she makes eyes at the disc jockey. Yes, the anti-Christ falls for Christ. They end up making out and Jesus essentially performs fellatio on her horns. The senator then becomes a crazed monster, and is beaten up by security. See if you caught that, THE SENATOR TURNED INTO A MONSTER….and no, not his monster dong.
I agree with Judas. What I wouldn't give for half of that.
Those are the main points. All laid out in 11 minutes. Of course, a lot more ridiculousness goes on. Satan cobbles together a lot of hair brained schemes and they unravel mainly due to his incompetence. He opens up Tequila Sally’s, a Mexican based fast food chain, and forces his daughter to do HIS EVIL BIDDING….by making her serve customers. He opens a dildo factory to force the world into sex driven madness. He tries to bring down the world by forcing the messiah to miss Burning Man. He creates a sleep machine that makes people kill themselves in their dreams, so they die in real life. That gives birth to one of the most disturbing scenes of the series.
The worms come from his face and suffocate him. Sick.
Satan and Jesus steal the show. Mainly because one is Jon Benjamin, who is amazing, and the other is Jon Glaser, who can be too. The Special Fathers also command most of the plot, as well as their own episode. They are Benjamin, Sam Seder, and the Heat Seeking Comedy Missile Eugene Mirman. The latter’s performance as murderous Special Sister Mary is one of the many highlights of the show. Mirman’s odd rage and volume changes make for a very strange and hilarious character.
" I love your horns." -Jesus Christ
The main love story is between Jesus and Lucy. He is out writing books, shooting movies, and doing jelly shots off hoes, while Lucy is waiting tables and waiting around. It is shown many times they are in love. Jesus does not lie, he is just a crappy boyfriend. Lucy, like most women, is drawn to the aloof artist jerk. Poor Bob Whitehead is left alone and angry. He flies her around in a helicopter. Tries to impress her and wants nothing but her affection. He is spurned again and again. This causes him immense trauma and forces him to have night terrors.
The nine episodes after the pilot and before finale are great. They have a lot of weird humor. It can be dry at times, but the absurdity of it all makes it funny. That tied into the interesting animation and the disturbing soundtrack concocted by series creator Loren Bouchard, make this show an eerie and funny…I was going to say hit, but let’s face it, it got less of a chance than 12 Oz. Mouse, and Adult Swim should be ashamed.
I left out the finale in the description because it ties up everything mentioned in the premiere. There is a monster attacking San Fransisco, and Whitehead is going to kill it and take the presidency with his feat of heroism. Satan wants to catch the monster and raise it as his own. Satan for once is one his game, and since
Becky: The Devil's Advocate.
Is turned on by evil, we get her best climactic noises in this episode since she masturbated with a growth that sprouted off Satan (told you it was weird). Another sidenote, I love Becky, but she’s never important, so I put her picture to make up for the lack of mention. In the great action scene in the final minutes of the series, Whitehead is poised and ready to kill the monster. He calls Lucy trying to impress her. She denies him again and he gets mad. I’m talking Hulk mad, because, HE WAS THE MONSTER! I told you to pay attention before. Satan thinks this is hilarious, though less so when the Senator Monster captures Lucy and crawls up the Golden Gate bridge. Jesus tries to rescue his love, but he is swatted from his helicopter. Satan blows up the bridge, bringing Becky to complete ecstasy, and dropping the monster into the bay. All the while the Pope and the Special Clergy beat box to drive the monster insane. Take that action movies, you ain’t got nothing on that. The day is saved, putting Lucy and Jesus together, and Satan pissed because he wanted a monster, but in the end saved his daughter. All together now, PRAISE SATAN!
Satan? But I can escape from chains while singing Pat Benetar and can hold my arms out. See?