Being on Netflix allows Lucifer to be more addictive and twisty

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The canceled Fox drama had to adjust from being a 26-episode weekly series in Season 3 to a 10-episode Netflix series in Season 4 that was dropped all at once early this morning. "On Netflix, you want to end every episode with a sense of, 'I have to watch the next episode (because) it's at my fingertips,'" says executive producer Joe Henderson. "That was fun to play with because it's a different way of writing. We had to write a different cliffhanger every week, the kind that makes you go, 'Oh my god, I need the next episode.'" He adds: "We're still doing a case of the week, we're still doing a mixture of mythology and detective work. "It took us a while to wrap our brains around that, that we're writing to cliffhangers now, but once we realized how much fun it was, we found some really good ones that just made us happy."

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• Ellis likes being on Netflix because the whole world can watch episodes at about the same time
• The Netflix model allows Lucifer to have a more streamlined season