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Lucifer season 5 will premiere on Friday, August 21 on Netflix worldwide. Ahead of the new series, fans are curios to know if God Johnson will appear. Express.co.uk has eveything you need to know about God Johnson and what happened to him in Lucifer.
Who is God Johnson? What happened to him?
God Johnson, also known as Earl Johnson, appeared in season two, episode 16 of Lucifer.
Earl was a wealthy oil magnate from Odessa, Texas, who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after he started calling himself ‘God’.
He stayed at Westridge Canyon Psychiatric Hospital for three months.
On a trip to New Mexico for Work, Earl picked up a belt buckle in a Navajo gift shop, which he believed to give him godly powers.
He was able to resurrect people from the dead, share divine wisdom and recall God’s memories.
Earl was also immune to Lucifer’s powers of persuasion and desire.
He was also immune to injury and human drugs.
Lucifer (played by Tom Ellis), who was interested in meeting the man claiming to be his father and went to visit Earl in hospital.
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Upon arrival, Lucifer believed Earl to be an impostor, but after Earl called him ‘Samael’, Lucifer’s angel name, Lucifer believed Earl to be his father.
However, when Earl’s belt was removed, he no longer referred to himself as God and has no memories of ever referring to himself in that way.
The last thing he remembered was purchasing the belt buckle in the gift shop.
Towards the end of the episode, Lucifer uncovered the belt Earl was wearing, which had the Medallion of Life attached.
The Medallion of Life had given him supernatural abilities, therefore, Earl believed he really was God.
Who is Timothy Omundson?
Timothy Omundson is an American actor from Missouri.
He is best known for playing Cain in Supernatural and Carlton Lassiter in Psych.
Omundson is also recognised for his role as Sean Potter in the CBS series Judging Amy and Eli in Xena: Warrior Princess.
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In 2019, Omundson joined the cast of This Is Us as Gregory.
In This is Us, he stars alongside Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley.
Earlier this year, Omundson reprised his role as Chief Carlton Lassiter in the TV movie Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.
His other credits include Castlevania, American Housewife, Galavant and Jericho.
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Will God Johnson star in season 5?
At the moment, there has been no news of Timothy Omundson reprising his role for the fifth series of Lucifer..
However, before production began on the upcoming series, showrunner Joe Henderson told Assignment X there was talk of brinnging back God Johnson.
He said: ” It depends on where he is recovery-wise. It’s one of the things we want to do is reach out and see where he is as we get closer.
“I think we’ve talked about this a little bit. I’ve never before had an actor come into one episode who just felt like part of the family so quickly.
“I haven’t talked with him for a couple months, I don’t know where he is in recovery, I don’t know where he is on wanting to be either on screen or in anything right now. But we love him, and he’s just such a joy and talent.
“That’s one of the top-of-the-list things that we want to talk about when we get into the [writers’] room.”
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