在《哥谭》作为蝙蝠侠的衍生剧播出后，DC继续决定将旗下的Lucifer也改编成电视剧。这位无聊的地狱之王在王座上过得可是一点也不开心。他下定决心抛弃他的地狱王国，来到洛杉矶成了位酒吧老板，追寻娱乐之都的刺激生活并协助洛杉矶的警察一起惩治罪犯。Lucifer, bored from his sulking life in hell comes to live in Los Angeles only to help humanity with its miseries through his experience and telepathic abilities to bring people's deepest desires and thoughts out of them. While meeting with a girl in his nightclub (called Lux), a shootout involving him and the girl leads him to become a LAPD consultant who tries to punish people for their crimes through law and justice.