Will Lucifer season 6 feature an animated episode?

After months of anticipation, the countdown to Lucifer season 5B is officially underway as is the wait for Lucifer season 6!

Although, it’s still unclear when exactly the final season of Lucifer might arrive, Netflix has confirmed the second half of the show’s fifth season will (finally!) debut on Friday, May 28. With a return date set, attention has shifted from when the season will arrive to spoilers about what’s to come in the upcoming second half of season 5 as well as the show’s farewell season.

Understandably, the creative team behind Lucifer is keeping all major spoilers under lock and key; however, that doesn’t mean they’re opposed to sharing some insights and teases about the seasons ahead!

In a recent live Q&A-style event, co-showrunner Joe Henderson caught up with Word Balloon Podcast host John Siuntres to discuss his new comic Shadecraft and the upcoming two seasons of Lucifer. While Henderson dodged most spoiler-laced questions, he did offer some interesting teases about the upcoming episodes.

Is there going to be an animated episode in Lucifer season 6?

Lucifer‘s final season will indeed include an animated episode, though it remains to be seen when the episode will air in the seasons as well as whether it will be a fully animated episode or a partially animated episode.

The news was confirmed with the release of the season 6 trailer which included a brief glimpse of the episode in which Lucifer and Chloe somehow are transformed into animated versions of themselves! That said, there had been hints an animated episode was coming long before the trailer’s arrival.

When speaking about Lucifer season 6, Henderson revealed the creative team had tried something they’d never before attempted on the show in season 6 telling the Word Balloon Podcast, “There’s a thing that we do in episode 3 of season 6 which we’ve never done before which allowed us to get some really cool out-of-the-box episode stuff.”

Henderson was indeed vague with his tease, but the phrasing of the reveal immediately sent up a number of red flags which had fans questioning whether there would be an animated episode in Lucifer season 6.

There isn’t much Lucifer hasn’t done before in its first five seasons; however, one thing the show has indeed not yet attempted is an animated episode or even an animated sequence. There is also no denying that animation grants creative teams the freedom to do certain things not possible to achieve in live-action — especially out-of-the-box style things!

Just last year, The Blacklist found a way to incorporate animation mixed with live-action — albeit under unique circumstances — and we’ve also seen other Warner Bros. properties swing for the fences with animated episodes such as Supernatural‘s “Scoobynatural” animated event which allowed the show to once again try something completely out of the box with moments only possible in animation.

Given Lucifer is based on a graphic novel, an animated episode could be a fun nod to the show’s origins and allow the creative team the opportunity to explore locations that might be too costly to create using CGI — such as unexplored aspects of Hell or even Heaven. It could also be a fun way to push the envelope with some fight and action sequences which could only be achieved through animation.