Posts tagged: “Empire”

View the gallery This is back from the break, and I thought to myself, "WE HAVE ELEVEN MORE EPISODES?!?" Turns out they may only be doing 18 this season. I'm guessing by then they STILL won't have any idea why Serayah's name

View the gallery All season I've been wanting Empire to get soapier, and it FINALLY delivered in fairly gripping fashion. I guess we just had to wait for them to remember how to MAKE the soap.

View the gallery I'm not going to lie and say that this delivered on last week's promise of crazy. But it DID deliver on the promise of Cookie and Candy, the upper-crust and/or expensively clad sisters looking for their trainwreck of a sibling.  "

View the gallery This is as much time as network TV has ever devoted to a rap battle, and it's one of the most watchable scenes of the season, even if I have no idea how half of it even worked (like how the crowd knew what to

View the gallery I think we're in the middle of a real, prolonged sophomore slump.

View the gallery We were light on generally great lines this week, but if we're talking the best solely of this episode, here are a few: -- "Your house ain't clean if your closets are dirty." -- "A MOUTH IS A MOUTH." -- "You

View the gallery This episode had an exhumation, a Thunderdome, red leather, the stabbing of a painting, and Marisa Tomei trying to be cool. Somehow, the last of those things was the oddest.

View the gallery This week's best lines: 1. "You couldn't find a C Major if it was right in between your legs. WHICH IT AIN'T." 2. "Blasphemy. I'm GOD." 3. "I doubt if Jesus Christ could save

View the gallery There weren't as many bananas lines this week, so for the Quote of the Episode I'm going with the graceful Lucious Lyon lyric, "Snitch. Bitch. Snitchin'-ass bitch." The thing is, it was actually pretty freaking catchy (written by Petey

View the gallery The six best lines from the season premiere: 1. "Your father is a tampon." (I swear this is what she said. If it's not, I don't want to know it. Also, what does it mean? That he's purse-size

View the gallery We covered Cookie already, but given again that the finale is tonight -- and that I wish we'd been able to write about this wackfest all along -- I figured I'd provide some Best of the Rest grabs for your entertainment. And hey, if you

View the gallery The season finale of Empire is tonight. Although we haven't had the time or resources to recap it properly, we HAVE been screen-grabbing the wardrobe shenanigans of TV's newest and best heroine, Cookie Lyon. The show itself is much more entertaining than