Psst, Don’t Buy Empire’s Cookie Lyon a Rose

Can Tajari P. Henson, please stop being so compelling as Cookie. She’s making it quite demanding to pay attention to the rest of the show. There was a drive-by shooting, but Cookie wasn’t in the scene so it didn’t reach DEFCON levels.

Why does Lucious wear a hat indoors? Doesn’t he know better? He probably eats with his elbows on the table and sends e-mails in ALL CAPS. Lucious needs etiquette lessons.

This episode was filled with drama, danger and shocking admissions. You can read about that in my full recap at The Root. I just want to discuss Camilla, who should be ashamed of herself for taking advantage of Hakeem.

I don’t know how many times folks have to be told not to let Empire’s Cookie get her hands on a rose. Drama always ensues. Next time, try orchids.

Aside from unfortunate twerking or whatever she was supposed to do to appeal to investor Mimi Whiteman and some off-screen sapphic action—which Mimi says was subpar—Miss Kitty got nothing to do. She finally has a story and was up to her old antics last night.

  Yes, lawd! Empire returns tonight with the second half of its third season. Back in December, the midseason finale ended with a bang—and for once it didn’t involve Lucious shooting someone or him getting shot. Still, Lucious tried to kill Angelo Dubois’ mayoral career—or at least leave a nasty scar. The Lyons’ eldest son,…