Empire season 2 review

Through most of “Empire” season 2, one of our major concerns has been how in the world the show can keep things fresh. Tonight, we feel that they accomplished that with what may be our favorite episode of the season, stuffed full of content and powerful character moments. Let’s start with what may be the […]

Let’s start this particular “Empire” review with a question: Is this show really better or worse when the characters are all mostly doing their own things? We had fun with most of this episode, but for the most part the stories were somewhat disjointed. For Lucious, the main event came right in the middle of […]

Wednesday night’s new episode of “Empire” made you wait a week longer than usual, but certainly seemed desperate to pack everything in as a result. Let’s start with the negative: The music. We almost think that this show should consider putting less and less of this into the stories as time goes by. It was […]

In many ways, some of the characters on “Empire” clearly believed Wednesday was a chance for a fresh start. Andre is at the top of the list. After seeing so much airtime last week featuring Andre and Rhonda out digging in the dark, this time around he unleashed some of his skeletons. After first admitting […]

The second season of “Empire” has at times suffer from a pretty terrible problem: Sameness. While the performances by the actors have been consistently great, some of our concerns really have to do with the subject of whether or not the show has been doing enough to make things creative week to week. The best […]

“Empire” ended last week with the potential release of Lucious Lyon from prison, and did you really think that he was going to waste that much time after being released before he started causing trouble? That is just not the dude’s way. He’s got a chance to cause some mayhem outside of the walls, and […]

“Empire” is a fantastically entertaining series, but for some of the characters, we can imagine that there would be one word to describe their experience: Suffocating. They want to make a name for themselves, and want to find a way to shine through the rubble that surrounds them. Unfortunately, they all suffer in their own […]

For almost the entire summer, one of the largest questions when it comes to “Empire” was whether or not the show was going to be able to capture the magic, the buzz, and the drama that we saw from the first season. It is a show with cheesy moments, but somehow there are still ways […]