Empire is known for many things: controversy, outlandishness and ratings that skyrocketed from week to week. It also revolutionalized the way sex is portrayed on network TV and launched a star. Here are some more reasons to love the FOX’s hip-hop soap opera. You can read more at my guest post for The Root.
Hakeem spent the first half of Season 2, being bullied and humiliated by his father. Lucious made sure to let the world know that he thinks his son is a p-ssy. It was a smart technique to ensure that Hakeem got revenge at the first opportunity.
The big show is going even bigger with a parade of stars, Chris Rock, Marisa Tomei, Mariah Carey and Andre Royo, who played Bubbles on The Wire are some of the stars who will enter the Lyons’ Den.
Even though they battle, Empire’s Lucious Lyon still loves his ex-wife Cookie. She knows it. He knows it. Now Boo Boo Kitty knows it. Go get some popcorn, this is going to be good!
The 2015-2016 upfronts were announced last week and networks presented their line-ups for the fall season and 2016 mid-season replacements. While it can’t all be attributed to the Empire effect, the networks are “diversifying” — or as Shonda Rhimes calls it “normalizing — their dramas and comedies.
Omar Little had a Du-Rag, and a duster. A man in a black duster always looks cooler. A woman in a black duster alway cooler. It’s the coat that identifies the character as a badass.
Empire’s Cookie Lyon has been obsessed with the American Song Awards. Her ex-husband, Lucious, and son, Jamal, were both up for “Song of the Year” and in the latest episode, “Rise by Sin,” we finally got to the ASAs but both Lyons lost. There were, however, other awards handed out.
