New Empire Season 2,Episode 11 Shocking Spoiler Promo Clip Released

The youngest Lyon naturally fires off; however, he’s quick to appear with Cookie inside her Family Day concert series at the jail where she served her time. They also made a hackneyed, bleeding heart, We Are The World song together that by all accounts is going to do fictional numbers.

To round out the episode, a very pregnant Rhonda is pushed down the staircase of her luxurious mansion by an intruder, and Jamal and Lucious are both nominated for song of the year. It seems like only yesterday the leaves were falling from the trees and we were watching Lucious and his posse disinter Vernon; and Freda Gatz was dueting on that unendurable “Boom Boom Bang Bang” song with Lucious; and Laura was singing “I Will Survive” in a park to total strangers; and Cookie, usually so savvy, was failing to realize that her paramour Laz was maybe just slightly creepy, which even dumb-ox Hakeem noticed. 

So this idea that Lee threw out there earlier this year that Oprah may show up on Season 2 of the show isn’t happening? That’s the most boring part of anything. Is any of this possible? I have no doubt that it can regain that original balance as it enters the second half of Season 2 in 2016, but last night’s midseason finale showed signs that Empire is flying too close to the sun, and is inching dangerously nearer to implosion. Never mind whether it’s interesting, smart, compelling, or unexpected. That means that either infanticide or some seriously troubled birth will become a thing that happened on Empire – basically, a logical next step. But that will soon be an easy fix because the American Sound Awards a.k.a. ASA nominations are here, and when Hakeem gets nominated, they’ll have not problem finding a place.

Only on “Empire” would nominations for an awards show take an entire day to announce. Chicago-born Terrence Howard plays patriarch Lucious Lyon. Sure, there’s a universe in which all of these things could be true, but that universe can’t be the backdrop for competent storytelling because it isn’t governed by rules anyone understands. Jamal was once given the task of running Empire while Lucious was in prison and he warns his brother about the power in the promo video. Despite Cookie’s wishes, Hakeem voted to kick his father out of his role at Empire. Empire is just a thing to be passed back and forth, to exchange hands over and over again with no discernible impact, even as the characters insist that the constant shuffling has an impact on the characters.

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But before over-saturated celebrity drama could bid farewell to 2015, there was one last story line left to leave viewers cringing on their feet: Anika and Rhonda. They still own majority shares, and Lucius and Jamal are still on the label. Or when Hakeem got kidnapped.

Even later, when Lucious was frustratedly machine-gunning his bookshelves, Cookie was the only one who could bring him comfort and assure him that the Lyons would prevail in the end. Nobody called Empire a family show! Now it’s a sad, soapy husk which can’t even manage to turn out good original music anymore. This has often worked to its advantage – the show has never spent an excessive amount of time on any single dramatic plot when it could quickly bury it (or unbury it, in Uncle Vernon’s case) and move on to the next.

“Hakeem just committed the cardinal Lyon family sin, and I would say that he stands alone at the end of this episode”, showrunner Ilene Chaiken tells Variety. But in the time since Cookie’s been out, Jezzie had been framed for murdering her roommate over toothpaste, and she was real bitter about it. So she did not accept Cookie’s offer to help.