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EPISODE
SEASON
Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon, is diagnosed with a medical challenge and whilst he still wonders who would be his heir, the reappearance of Cookie, his ex-wife, complicates things.
25 March 1980, Falmouth, Florida, USA
1 September 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 March 1970, Huntington, New York, USA
March 19, 2015
"Die But Once" is surprisingly light on Cookie, but she gets the pivotal final moment.March 19, 2015
Yes, let me tell you that all this leads to the best catfight on TV since the Dynasty era.March 19, 2015
These two episodes (which were probably not planned as a double-shot finale) featured almost everything you could want from Empire, and then some.March 19, 2015
Finally this week some truly plot-twisting stuff happens and I'm not talking about finding out that Gabby Sidibe has a white mom.March 19, 2015
He hooked up with Boo Boo Kitty! And typing those words out just made me shiver.March 19, 2015
The way Empire constantly keeps the gas pedal of its Maybach floored is what makes the ride so fun, of course; it's like a show for people who find themselves checking their watches during Scandal.March 19, 2015
So much of it seemed fresh, from the pulsing music to Cookie's swagger to Jamal's gay-pride crooning - which helped make Jussie Smollett the show's other breakout star.March 19, 2015
"Die" was certainly Empire at its most Shakespearean.March 19, 2015
My breath was held. This was especially true for the scenes between Jamal and Lucious.March 19, 2015
Over the course of two hours, Empire proved it was more interested in spectacle than in coherence, and that, in some sense, it's all the better for it.