Empire S1E9 "Take These Cookies"

Empire (Fox)

Cookie, the shows main female protaganist, is obviously every one's new fave female lead, after Olivia Pope. She's strong, intelligent, knows her business, and a go getter, with all the attitude everyone wanted and needed.  I'm pretty sure the 'Empire' will go to her. That has to be the endgame after she's worked so hard.

Where's the scene on Porsha spying on Anika?!  I woul And why does Anika still want to be with Lucious after he cheated on her? Lucious was dumb enough to betray her after he's given her all this power and expecting her not to fight back? So now she's working with their rival, Creedmore trying to steal Lyon's artists. And why are record executives riding around with securities with guns? When Mr. Creedmore pulled the gun Lyon, it lost all it's credibility.

Jamal is cute, but no D'Angelo in that first scene with him. They tried it though. I'm happy Jamal finally came out, and it wasn't a long drawn out secret (like another still in the closet cowboy from another show I watch: Nashville).I have to say his voice along with Estelle's was amazing.

   

Lucious talks a lot about family sticking together, but he treats his sons despicably without them provoking him.  Cookie can definitely do better than Lucious who is a racist and homophobic towards their sons. He doesn't respect his gay son's opinion even when he was trying to bring in a major artist, and he doesn't want to leave his Empire to his oldest son, because he married a white woman. He may be the father of her children but I hope she moves on to someone better.

I don't see why Andre's 'the untalented one' continuing spiral into manic isn't more obvious to his family members, especially if this is something that has happened before. Although he seems to be showing more passion off his meds and seems a bit more relaxed, since he started out the show as this tight laced, no fun person. If only he can reign it in so that his manic side doesn't take over as much. The scene with the gun in the booth was pretty scary though in the episode before.
The brotherly scene in the elevator was quite touching. For the first time they showed some semblance of a sibling bond.

It was a pretty good episode, though I didn't get what the build up was, or 'what everyone would be talking about', except "Take these cookies ".

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