Lucious is as inscrutable as ever, playing the Machiavellian arch-villain one minute and the benevolent, protective patriarch the next. If Jamal’s character has changed in the second season, everyone else is exactly who they always were. “You’re becoming your father,” Cookie tearfully accuses him at one point. The sensitive and proud musician seems to have hardened, becoming a shrewd and somewhat cruel businessman fashioned in Lucious’s likeness. More than that, the job has started to change his personality. He hasn’t been in the studio in months, and his album is slipping in the charts without a tour to support it.
In his absence, Jamal has been running the company, much to his own detriment, with his music career taking a backseat to the demands of being CEO. Lucious has been in prison for three months waiting for a bail hearing. Gray) were poised to launch a hostile takeover of the company. Henson), Anika (Grace Gealey), Andre (Trai Byers), and Hakeem (Bryshere Y. When we left them last, the Lyon family was in the midst of a characteristic shake-up of power and allegiance: Jamal (Jussie Smollett) was named heir to the Empire throne Lucious (Terrence Howard) was arrested for murder and in an unlikely alliance, Cookie (Taraji P.
Empire season 2 episode 1 andre series#
The second season of Fox’s breakout hit series returned last night, and the premiere wasted no time delivering on all the melodrama promised by the show’s impressive first season.
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