Empire season 2 review

Tonight’s “Empire” finale certainly started with quite the epic cliffhanger, as the life of one Jamal Lyon was firmly in the balance. Yet, we were never that afraid that we were going to see him go. Instead, what this episode brought us was the balcony fight to end all balcony fights, one that ended with […]

Lucious Lyon is a dangerous man. “Empire,” and he also just so happens to be the sort of guy who has to constantly pay the piper. For example, creating a narrative around your mother is going to lead to you having to face tough scrutiny. The same goes for having someone killed in prison whose […]

Lucious Lyon may have been lying about what really happened to his mother Leah Walker on “Empire,” but we definitely got the sense of one thing above all else on Wednesday night’s new episode of the show: This is still a woman with a nasty edge, and a penchant for doing some horrible things. What she […]

Through much of the second half of “Empire” season 2, we have seen the character of Hakeem make what appeared to be a series of terrible decisions after voting against his own father being in control. He seized power as Empire Entertainment CEO, crashed and burned in the role, and also proposed after what seemed […]

The thing about “Empire” is that there are plenty of twists that they do that, to be frank, don’t make a whole lot of sense. Yet, at the same exact time, the show still finds a way to be entertaining. This is what we had at the end of the episode with the big reveal […]

If there ever was a stretch of episodes on “Empire” that really put the onus on the character of Hakeem, it may be fair to say that we are swimming in it right now! Wednesday night’s new episode was another big showcase for this character, who has ambition for days, but really no fortitude to […]

Sooner or later, the luster was going to come off of “Empire” — and we may now know have a precise date for when it managed to happen. Going into Wednesday’s episode, aspirations were high. We were coming off of a tense confrontation between Lucious Lyon and Hakeem for his betrayal, and eventually Hakeem taking control […]

Lucious Lyon has long been considered the king of the jungle on “Empire“; however, what he may be starting to realize at this point is that the tides are clearly turning in many big ways. Professionally, he’s lost his company, and to make matters worse he realized that Hakeen, the same person who took away […]

If “Empire” wanted to drop a few shockers on you Wednesday night, they certainly did that. For the past season and a half, the show has sold us on the premise that there is a power struggle at Empire Entertainment … but only between members of the Lyon family. What happened on the fall finale […]

Usually when you think about big surprises happening on Fox’s “Empire,” you are thinking about them mostly through the lens of something that puts the characters into a near-death situation. It’s not that often when you see something take place on a romantic level that was as stunning as what we had during this episode. […]