WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Lucifer's Season 5B, streaming now on Netflix.
Although Lucifer fans rejoiced at Season 5B's musical episode, full of beloved pop-rock covers, the underlying reason for it was far more sinister than a karaoke party hosted by God. Lucifer Season 5, Episode 10, "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam," showed God wanting to spend more time with his son, Lucifer, after hearing his rage-filled diatribe against him during the previous episode's family dinner party gone awry. However, the episode soon revealed God's misguided belief that he could no longer control his Celestial powers, so he needs to retire.
By the end of the musical episode, and after frustrating the Devil to no end, God visits Lucifer at his penthouse. God then reveals to Lucifer through song that he's also suffering, as of late, and through Anne Hathaway's "I Dreamed a Dream," the father finally tells his son, "I cannot fix you, Lucifer." However, Lucifer doesn't want to hear this and tells God to stop controlling him, especially by making him sing. When God hears this, he tearfully replies, "Actually I don't think that's possible. It's not that I won't. It's that I'm not sure I can."
God confesses that he's not able to control his powers anymore, and he's for the first time in a very long time frightened of himself. All the songs and choreography that seemed well-intentioned and fun was actually a distressing sign that he couldn't exist on Earth without causing a Broadway play to unfold unexpectedly and unbeknownst to mortals.
This realization first causes God and Lucifer to react illogically, as he literally stashes his powers away on Earth so he won't endanger the world, but he forgets this makes him vulnerable to said world, so Luci tries to take over his father's heavenly post prematurely. However, it's Amenadiel who suspects something isn't quite what it seems.
In Season 5, Episode 14, after seeing God play a round of steady golf, the eldest angel asks his father, "When's the first time you noticed a problem?" God confesses he suspected something was wrong when his son, Michael, told him there might be something wrong with him. Amenadiel soon believes that it was Michael all along who made God disbelieve in his powers and strength. It turns out that Michael wanted to make his father feel unstable so he could usurp the Celestial throne.
However, this may be the truth that God needs his sons to believe to enter his next phase in existence. When dealing with an omnipotent character, especially one as obtuse as God, it's never quite certain what's real and what's staged. Regardless, in Season 5, Episode 14, Amenadiel confides in Lucifer that their father isn't really losing it and that it was just a part of Michael's nefarious plan to take over Heaven.
However, this realization comes after Luci reunites his Celestial parents as a way to help his bid to become God. Luci is shocked when he learns God decided to live amongst his wife's new universe, supporting her and not being able to return to Earth. Before God and the Mother of Creation depart amongst a celestial veil, Lucifer dares to ask, "How much was this a part of your plan?" God, being enigmatic as always, just chuckles as he departs the universe -- suggesting that nothing has happened without his consent.
Lucifer stars Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar, Lauren German as Det. Chloe Decker, D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel, Rachael Harris as Dr. Linda Martin, Kevin Alejandro as Det. Dan Espinoza, Lesley-Ann Brandt as Mazikeen Smith and Aimee Garcia as Ella Lopez. Season 5B is now on Netflix.
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