In Case You Missed It: Empire Season 2, Episode 1: The Devils Are Here

I don’t know how to feel abt this episode.

Overkill is a good word for the show now.
Just too much going on and too many cameos lol

Wait did ya’ll see Boo Boo Kitty twerkin’ or whatever it was she was attempting?

I liked it. Only the first segment was bad for me. You know I’m die hard so I wasn’t surprised by the new Jamal because he started that transition last season. Outside of the dumb first sequence they totally overdid the gay thing. I pray that they get that in check. We already have Frank’s daughter who will have a major storyline as a butch teen rapper. Not to mention Teyana who is bi. Everyone isn’t gay so I wish they would chill with the unrealistic number of gay characters.
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You no likey my recap Sandy? Is it ok if I post it in the comments?

I agree. The whole show was off. It seemed like the show’s writers are schizophrenic and bipolar.

I think (JMO) in the industry it’s more gay people than we think though. HOWEVER, all the gay activity was a turn off for me. I will still watch. Hope Ms. Lawrence won’t be back. ugh.

LOL Ms. Lawrence was on her Sylvester stuff (see i’m showing my age here)!!!!!!!!

OMG Dre and his wife IRK MY SOUL! Especially her!!!!! Little witch. Don’t worry, they gonna find out about her soon enough. She is soooooooo annoying. When she said the comment about the kids playing, I wanted to slap the shyt outta her. Girl you are only an in law. Shut your mouth.

Anyone who puts ‘Empire’ over ‘Power’ isn’t playin’ with a full deck.

That red lipstick tho!

Boo boo kitty should’ve said no I will not dance in public??

Who mentioned Power and why? We’re talking about Empire.

Child, IG had him plastered up last night. I was cracking up. He was in jail with Luscious.

Ya’ll can have empire … but my god …. chile that post last night had me in damn tears this morning

I missed that part gotta go back and watch. I was disappointed in Chris Rock like WTF is going on with his acting lately. He need to go back to his wife chile!

I want to know the following so I will have to tune in:
*Does Naomi come back?
*Do they finally drag Dre’s wife?
*Do they find out that Dre and the wife killed the guy from New York Undercover? (I forget his name on the show)
*Do Boo Boo Kitty get back with Luscious?
*Does Luscious get back with Cookie
*Is Jamal gonna be an ass the whole season?

Yes she irked my soul,I was hoping for less of their scheming?and instantly thought send her home.

I liked his 2 second seriousness. Nice to see he can do something other than be the funny one. I wish he would not of died already, but maybe he will be in flash backs.

YESSS Cookie was mad as hell. I said in another post that Luscious did not want anything to do with your simple ass, until Cookie picked you up, and dusted your confidence off. Now here you come all high and mighty. Talking about get out. I would of punched his ass and told him to make me. smdh.

IDK I just wasn’t feeling Chris Rock like to me he wasn’t believable. Like a gangster really. I laughed so hard! All I could remember was Pookie!

But the assistant has always been a dummy. I was annoyed by that though

Pookie?! DEAD. hahahahaha. Truth be told as soon as I saw DeRay I was instantly IRKED. I can’t stand him! I was glad Chris Rock killed his simple self

I just need to know WTF thought it was a good idea to cast Chris Rock as a damn hardcore “G”??????????????????????????? I LMAO at all of his scenes

And WTF what up with Lawrence being casted???????? I was ready to quit the damn show!!!!!!!!!!!

I know every time I see DeRay he just cracks me up. I can’t take him seriously.

That struggly azz chit!!!!!!!!!!! #idied

You and me both! I was like man are they serious with Pookie being a G!

The show comes on at 9pm EDT, so I’m going to say that most kids who can’t quite understand homosexuality are in bed by that time.

AS HELLLLLLLLLLL, Honey!!!!!!! Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw his big azz laid out on that table with that red lipstick, and immediately had a WTF moment????????????????

RHOA alum Miss Lawrence doing his best Sylvester impersonation.

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Here comes Sandra with the ???

Girl I was like yaaaasssssss, slap his ass again. He needed a double slapping…

He cried like he got slapped in front of everybody in high school. LMAO

I swear I said the exact same thing this morning ?

This was the best part of the show last night and Lucious’ Kiser Sosa at the end 1..

1) I hated the gorilla scene
2) I understand that gay ppl are here to stay but damn I can’t watch TV with my baby without 2 men kissing
3) I love & hate Cookie & Lucious relationship. He will not let anyone play with her
4)am glad Jamal got smacked
5) I hated that lesbo character
6) BooBoo Cat how have you manged to become so desperate? Isn’t your father a rich doctor? Why are you acting like you need empire,

I enjoyed it.. It was a little boring but I was watching with friends and I was missing ish. When I rewatched on Hulu I liked it better… I know these celebrity cameos are costing a grip but DAYUM can we not resovle every crisis in an hour episode. They could dragged out Chris Rock for 2 weeks but I see that’s Lee Daniels vision for the show so I MINE as well suck it up.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a scrawny lil fella too so i guess I buy it. When you tiny you gotta be scurry some other way rofl…
I give it a solid 7.

In the order that you have them numbered:
1)I could of done without it
2)My baby can’t watch that. I sent him to bed at 8:30
3) Me too!!!!! He is not playing when it comes to her at all. And she knows it.
4) Me too!!! He deserved (momma d voice)
5) me too. Where did she come from?
6) She a hoe fo sho.

Did they really have to have Hakeem tell Jamal that “he was telling Mommy?”

What’s up with the gay shat? They need to just tell me early if it’s gonna turn into an all gay cast so I can jump ship. The bi, gay, tranny mess is sickening.

I sure hope so. Lucious is just using him. Jamal is a means to an end for Lucious. SO Sad.

Knowing Lee’s nasty as$ he was probably telling Malik to kiss a man and pretend he’s fawking azz and Malik told him heyl nah, so Lee killed him off the show.

I was like how come the young son had his azz beat like that and Jamal only got two slaps, really? I swear Lee wants to Jamal to be the gay superhero so bad.

The scenes are wayyyyyyy too much for my virgin eyes. I damn sure did not need my gay p0rn cherry gettin popped cuz it was aired on prime time tv.

I liked how they low-key showed Hakeem smoking an blunt in front of his mama. I thought Cookie was gonna hit the weed. I would have died. LOL

THIS is what I am waiting for. I do NOT want them to get away with it.

Like the straight up bih he is.

I don’t know, I was wondering that too.

Ok cause maybe you can help me out.. When Chris and Deeray were sitting at the table it looked like Deeray eye and parts of face was gone. Was that what Chris was eating?

Ewww was it?! I though he just had a black eye. Ugh

Me too!!! She is too…extra. She runs nothing but Dre, so she might want to calm her simple ass down

lol lol. now I have to watch it again

And that’s what made it funny when his azz said it. How you wanna run a business, but you gon tell on somebody?

Yep, that’s Dora.

Right…men forcefully kissing each other is stomach turning.

I can barely follow Empire ..It all over the place ,but Power I can not wait .I will give it a second chance .

Well I loved it! #ijs

I thought Cookie was going to snap when she was like “Why the hell are we here?” I was waiting for Cookie to be like look here Lil bish

Agreed. Last season was real blah to me..

I binged watched season 4 of Scandal on Netflix and that kidnapping was the pitts. Overall season 4 wasn’t bad.

Never could get into Empire or Scandal. Too much overkill

Last night was a little over the top, but the preview for the season, really seems like they are going full COONERY #uncleruckussaveus

Yeah something definitely happened because they killed him off too quick and Malik had no idea he was getting killed off.

His Jackie Wilson do need to stay gone

No he divorced her while she was in jail

i missed that… whale I guess I can watch it… tee hee

empire

I don’t watch (couldn’t get past ep 1, it’s corny to me) but judging from what I’ve heard about it…wasn’t this show always over the top? I thought that’s what yall liked about it.

I had noticed that when I bought the soundtrack. Last night made it crystal effin clear.

I thought it was just me. I was cracking up!! Smh, try again

Lee Daniels done lost his mind. He, like Tyler Perry, like to brew suspense then get a case of ADD and move to fast beyond it without the consequence. We heard about Frank all last season, then he introduces us to the the character, then boom he’s dead, killed that storyline in 10 minutes. Tyler did that with Candice and the assets recovery guy, just bam- then move on. I like how Shonda writes, her fall out is much better.

How was Luscious nearly dying when they thought he had ALS and when they discovered it was MG he was healthy. Sandra can we PLEASE get a medical minute on Myasthenia Gravis? I was recently diagnosed. It’s rare so I was surprised to see it on tv.

I liked House too but I didn’t want to watch if it was a carbon copy. I’ll take a look at it and let you know what I think ?.

Because there were medicines to treat it, is how they explained it last season.

GL with your treatments!

I think Lee Daniels’ funky ass attitude and his mouth are going to bring it down. He already left a bad taste with his ghetto rant over the golden globes and now he’s comparing Terrence Howard’s multi domestic abuse chargers to whiteys. Not in a we shouldn’t tolerate this stuff, but in a dismissive fashion. So I guarantee that anymore of those comments will bring the PC liberals out and the show will be yanked off of the air in soon time.

So many clichés, stereotypes and exaggerated acting….the writers MUST think their intended audience has a very, very, low IQ. IMO…. As much as I hate to admit – because I can not stand Curtis,
? Power>Empire
At least Power and Ghosts storyline is believable, this ish here is pure TRASH in comparison to Empires 1st season

I understood the message of the Gorilla, but I just thought it only feeds into what “some” thinks about blacks. This is my opinion, but they may have well dressed all up in ape. Not happy with first episode this season.

Quite Frankly I was MAD

I thought gay boy sounded like Usher for a minute. *shrugs*

Mr. Daniel’s is about to get his n**** moment. The show sucks.

BOOOOOOO!!!!! (Throws tomatoes….in the can).

Yeah I was NOT feeling Jamal in the studio with Becky AT ALL! I do believe that the “failed twerk” was on purpose. After all, Anika is a debutante. Twerking shouldn’t be her thing. What was the point of Marisa Tormei’s character? And what happened to Tricky Trickter? Is she supposed to but up the other 250 mil?

Imma need them to get back to basis and Chris Rock a drug kingpin! ROFLMAO!

I liked Castle but I stopped watching for some reason. I’ll give it a go.

You run your house & I run mine soooo yea.

Oh he’s shirtless? More incentive to watch lol

Overuse of cameos by celebrities cheapens the show, makes it less believable. The singing has always come across as corny too me, but I understand its part of the show. Hopefully it will get back to what it did in the first season, but I think there’s probably too much money, because everyone looks too polished. I felt some of the lines where a little to distasteful, like when the girl said she had too boo boo. I can see them ruining the show if this keeps up.

Did anyone watch Funky Dinerva’s recap on YouTube? Looking like he came from a 90s music video with SWV ?.

Y’all still on topic….I didn’t watch #shrug

Yep, I hated tHat line.

Hey SummerTime, yeah we sill on topic cause there was so much BS that went down last night But maybe that what they wanted.

I plan to watch, but was busy. I’m gonna have to get caught up so I can contribute ?

Well I deleted my ape dance cause they at pissing me off, too. He better not do no more mess like that ANYMORE. What made her say, you know what I feel like a animal and let me step into that ape suit.

IT’s just 20 episodes piled into 1 hour. Good Luck

They could’ve found somebody that could’ve made it a lil more believable than his azz. LMAO. Although rehab did Pookie well, even though he’s still funny looking

Hey Hunti

It annoys me every time I see it. Buying all them vowels.

Hahaha. Dwight wanted all those extra letters in his name.

Before I started watching I read an article and thought his name was pronounced the way it’s spelled and could not believe a male main character was named Luscious. I was like “Luscious Lyon…wth?” ???

Yeah I noticed that. But there’s no cure for mg and if you’re progressed do far that you’re getting shots you’re probably getting them twice a week. Those flare ups are serious. The stress he goes through would trigger a flare up even with medication. I know it’s just a show, but still. I was watching like wow he has so much energy for someone with MG.

I think they meant for it to come off that way. The actor’s from the Islands, but her character is a straight-laced debutante. Her character’s disposition is probably too formal and proper to “twerk”

That’s because Shonda didn’t go to the school of niggadom lol. No seriously, Lee Daniels is a horrible writer. All of his plots are very thin, no complexity what so ever and would be better served for daytime soap operas that build upon senseless drama. Tyler too. Did you watch The Butler? That movie was horrible. Never understood why it got so much praise. Shonda’s characters are complex – the only thing I dislike about her is that not ONE character is allowed any happiness. She does this thing of “grim-darkening” every thing.

Right because you can tell that she knows how to twerk. There were moments that she had to check herself.

Sorry, I like Rhonda lol she is the voice for a lot of ppl in the audience. She knows the family is full of drama, and she knows every one is fighting for the top spot, hell she’s one of them w/Dre. At least she’s got his back and I haven’t seen her be phony once. Stuck up? Possibly. At least she’s consistent.

I especially liked the scene last season when she acted as Dre’s proxy…loved how she came back at Lucious.

Hakeem got whooped with a broom because he called her a bish. That’s definitely broom whoopin worthy.

Between his singing, and the other one rapping , I don’t know which is worse.

True.. but kicking ya momma out is TREATING her like a bish… he deserved the broom too lol

I agree with the too many cameos, and the gay theme was in our face. Other than that, I liked it.

Same thang I said. We didn’t get all these breaks when I was in school

He was killed off because he told the media that Jussie was gay in real life before Jussie came out. Lee was pissed at him. Then they tried to say that Malik actually had a drug habit to cover it up. But, the truth was he exposed Jussie.

She tried to steal Empire from him. She is not supporting his new role. I was riding with Jamal kicking them out.

….and gay.

They have like ten scenes in one episode and each scene is telling it’s own story. It seemed like a run on sentence. I like Power better….

@Just Keya……..Good Evening, Damn if you didn’t ask everything I was thinking especially about Jamal. I don’t think that I want Jamal to be too vicious. Hell, when Cookie slapped him twice, I wasn’t sure he wasn’t going to slap back. That’s how unsure I was about the new and improved(?) Jamal. I hope that he is not going to be an on-going ass. Guy from New York Undercovers name was Vernon. But you know that I died when Cookie told Boo-Boo Kitty that she couldn’t even dyke right. Chile, I was through! You have a good day.

You sure that wasn’t Coolio…lol

You create a thesis and you build off of the thesis….the story line just doesn’t stick, it’s just all over the place…

I LOVE Power!

Yeah it was too many in one episode

Bird, don’t let this zizie or whatever this person is come for u. I luv ur font and have been a lurker but comment every now and again so I love ur comments and post and know you are a big fan of empire and your man Jussie!

You think so, I couldn’t believe his serious face.

The ratings are still the best on network. Having said that — it was a mess. I had to turn it off 3/4 into the show. Nothing made sense. Where do I begin: Chris rock — really! a tough guy….total miscast. Didn’t appreciate a star actress like Marisa playing gutter role like that….Transgenders, gay guys and lesbos…let’s hope there’s enough room for some straight people in the show. I’ll continue to watch, but 1/2way through I’m team Black-ish!

It’s a lee daniels production. That’s what he does with his movies — cameo after cameo. I think he gets actors cheaply.

Lucious and Cookie have a real street old school kind of love for each other. They may not be in a relationship but nobody gone mess with him/her, well except them.

That’s Lee’s way of doing things. Have you seen his movies? He pads them full of “cameo” actors (does he pay everybody?) and he has some of the most over the top sex scenes….watch Monster’s Ball with Halle Berry.

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I must say again, they got rid of Chris Rock’s character so quick. I think having sm1 out to possibly kill Cookie would have been a good sub-plot this season. Is Lucious out to kill the love of his life or the drug king pin that she snitched on? Did Deray’s street family put out a hit on her?

I’ve said before new writers would never be able to submit a script with this many twists and turns out of place along with mediocre writing. You’d get so many dear john letters. But for some reason, it’s a hit show with Lee Daniels and Strong at the helm.

The only Lee Daniel’s movies I’ve seen was Precious and the Butler. I didn’t know Monster’s Ball was his movie! I heard about that sex scene with Halle and that dude and decided that movie was not for me. Lee is not my cup of tea. Thanks for the warning, Li.

Didn’t like it at all, way to much ungodly stuff. We don’t need to see all that gay and lesbian stuff. Not going to tun in on this show.

I agree that there was too much happening so quickly, so there were missed opportunities for subplots. All of the action happening from jail, the double cross with the takeover, etc., could have been distributed over a few episodes.

Yes! I lost track of who’s on whose side. And Jamal turning into a he devil is the opposite of who he was last season. He was not Team Lucious like that.

LMBO@n**** moment! In 3-2-1!

Yup let people like what they like without being rude. Acting like power is better. Hope you have a good weekend Jeni.

I will share with you how I feel. There was to much Lesbian and gay content in the episode. Everyone of Shonda Rimes shows are filled with gay scenes. If that’s an individual choice, that’s something they will have to answer to God for, on the other hand, I really don’t want to see it on prime time television. I’m done!

Hahaha Sandra Rose, say billy goat again.#rihannasbrother

Thanks

I know a person who was diagnosed back in the early 70’s. He said he was one of the first persons of color to be diagnosed.

Same to you bew <3

I cringed too..

THEYRE TRYING TOO HARD, THEY FORGOT WHAT GOT THEM THERE…

I don’t think we should complain about the celeb cameos because if they want to pass as celebs that only makes sense

Totally agree. Love Fifty too!

I couldn’t even look at it. My stomach turned a little.