Frank Gathers, the drug boss, is there thanks to the grand jury testimony that won Cookie an early release, as is the cousin Cookie hired to off Gathers’s personal
Solved by plopping a bad guy in the slammer. His incarceration opens up intriguing new plot avenues, since a few of the first season’s biggest messes were too neatly Lucious, in jail, watches Cookie’s event from his cell block’s common area. What’s more, it’s disappointing for a show as sensitive and dynamic about queerness as “Empire” has been with Jamal to lean on lusty lesbian stereotypes. It shouldn’t take any canoodling to see that the record Mimi’sĪ lesbian, and her sexuality is a central plot point, since Cookie seems to be courting her business entirely through flirtation. The event is secretly a stunt to draw the attention of the investor Mimi Whiteman (Marisa Tomei), whose seed money the family, sans Jamal, hopes to use to for a hostile takeover at the next Empire board meeting. Prime-time television and the Black Lives Matter movement haven’t intersectedĮnough this year (cheers to NBC’s bold young “The Carmichael Show” for making it happen), and it’s exciting to see one of TV’s biggest shows acknowledge the world it plays to,Įspecially when Cookie snubs Al Sharpton and rips Don Lemon’s hacky CNN race debates from this past summer. It up in a cage, wearing a gorilla suit, before delivering an impassioned speech denouncing the American prison industrial complex.
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The second season opens with the Lyon family staging a star-studded Central Park rally to free its patriarch. Cookie ultimately came out on top in a stunning reversal of fate as Lucious landed behind bars after Their dance of betrayal played sons, spouses and business partners against each other, pawns in a game for two. Season 1 of “Empire” followed the near death and revitalization of the Lyon hip-hop dynasty at the hands of co-founders Lucious and Cookie, an estranged husband and wife animated by their lust for power. Rock, who plays an inmate serving time alongside Howard’s Lucious, recorded this little on-set video back in June.Season 2, Episode 1: “The Devils Are Here” Maybe an homage to NBC’s dearly departed Hannibal? Reportedly, Fox shot down the idea but Daniels went ahead and shot his concept anyway with “one particularly grotesque scene featuring the actor with a plate of human body parts before him.” Rock had to return to the set for re-shoots after Fox got wind of the footage and the cannibalism was “scaled back to the point of barely detectable.” The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Daniels wanted Season 2 guest star Chris Rock to be a cannibal. All three of us are batshit f-ing crazy.” Just how crazy are they? Cannibal-level crazy. “You got me, you got Taraji, and you got Terrence Howard.
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“I’m surprised the show’s even on the air right now,” series co-creator Lee Daniels says. As the real-world personal drama of Empire’s leading man Terrence Howard continues to make headlines this week, The Hollywood Reporter went behind the scenes of Season 2 of the splashy Fox show to explore the dramatic creative environment that produces the juicy, twisty plot turns that made the show such a smash hit.
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