Empire - TV Episode Recaps & News

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Episodes 11 and 12 Die But Once/Who I Am

Empire Recap: Things Fall Apart Empire’s season finale encapsulated the best and worst of what this monster of a show has given audiences these past ten weeks.
Episode 10 Sins of the Father

Empire Recap: Life With Father Now, that’s how you do a soap opera.
Episode 9 Unto the Breach

Empire Recap: This Means War Is it wrong to root for the bad guy?
Episode 8 The Lyon’s Roar

Empire Recap: In the Name of the King This week’s episode is jam-packed with inconsistencies, making it another prime example of how this show can go from intriguing to inept at a moment’s notice.
Episode 7 Our Dancing Days

Empire Recap: Modern Family It may take Empire a while to get past its watercooler tawdry-TV beginnings, but this week proves it’ll get there eventually.
Episode 6 Out, Damned Spot

Empire Recap: Take Me to the River Character inconsistencies abound this week, making for a disappointing episode.

Episode 5 Dangerous Bonds

Empire Recap: My Girl Got a Girlfriend Lucious gets a clean bill of health by playing dirty, while his sons continue trying to kill each other.
Episode 4 False Imposition

Empire Recap: Attack on Titan Well, that was a surprisingly good episode.
Episode 3 The Devil Quotes Scripture

Empire Recap: 100 to 0 Real Quick Everything about this show is starting to seem hideously grotesque.
Episode 2 The Outspoken King

Empire Recap: Let’s Tame Some Shrews! The women on this show are all kind of terrible.
Episode 1 Pilot

Empire Series Premiere Recap: I Got Mine This show is an amusing and tacky hot mess.

Episode 18 Past Is Prologue

Empire Season Finale Recap: Two Weddings and No Funeral Dang, Empire. You got me this time.
Episode 17 Rise By Sin

Empire Recap: The Big Night They’ve finally done it. This is the perfect Empire episode.
Episode 16 The Lyon Who Cried Wolf

Empire Recap: American Horror Story The time has come for the question we didn’t dare ask: Has Empire righted itself?
Episode 15 More Than Kin

Empire Recap: The Ballad of Boo Boo Kitty When Lucious hears bad news, he always jumps to murder.
Episode 14 Time Shall Unfold

Empire Recap: Dwight Walker’s Revenge When Empire just strips everything down, it really shines.
Episode 13 The Tameness of a Wolf

Empire Recap: Happy Birthday, Cookie Oh no, the Hakeem face is still in the opening credits.

Episode 12 A Rose by Any Other Name

Empire Recap: Hakeem & Cleopatra Everything on this show is a Shakespearean metaphor or a thinly veiled dick allusion.
Episode 11 Death Will Have His Day

Empire Recap: Cookie Lyon Paper Company We’re really leaning into this Godfather thing, huh?
Episode 10 Et Tu, Brute

Empire Recap: Is You Is or Is You Ain’t? Um, Jamal. You know you can be bisexual, right?
Episode 9 Sinned Against

Empire Recap: Crackhouse Walking Tour Cookie and Candace are all business in Philadelphia.
Episode 8 My Bad Parts

Empire Recap: Softer Than Butter How does Empire do an entire episode about rap beef in 2015 without mentioning Meek Mill?
Episode 7 True Love Never

Empire Recap: The Return of Mimi Complex characters? Logical plot development? This can’t be Empire.
Episode 6 A High Hope for a Low Heaven

Empire Recap: Doin’ Too Much Symbolism was never your strong suit, Empire.
Episode 5 Be True

Empire Recap: It’s a Wonderful Gutter Life This episode was flipping tremendous.
Episode 4 Poor Yorick

Empire Recap: My Heart Can’t Take It This show is what I see when my close my eyes at night to dream.
Episode 3 Fires of Heaven

Empire Recap: What Can’t Cookie Do? Is Empire set in a universe where the majority of hip-hop artists exist but also somehow don’t?
Episode 2 Without a Country

Empire Recap: Hashtags Do Come True I’m ready for the Better Call Thirsty spinoff after Empire is finished.
Episode 1 The Devils Are Here

Empire Season Two Premiere Recap: Double-Crossing Divas This episode wasn’t so much of a thrill ride as expert table-setting and reminders of the damage these people are capable of doing.

Episode 18 Toil and Trouble, Part 2

Empire Season Finale Recap: Who? That was a legitimately great twist.
Episode 17 Toil and Trouble, Part 1

Empire Recap: Ocean’s Fifty-Eleven It was only a matter of time until Empire pulled off a legit heist.
Episode 16 Absent Child

Empire Recap: Last Name, Lyon Damn, Nia Long.
Episode 15 Civil Hands Unclean

Empire Recap: Drop It Like It’s Hot How hasn’t Snoop Dogg appeared on this show before?
Episode 14 Love Is a Smoke

Empire Recap: The (Nia) Long Con Cookie, let those two trash fires burn hot together. You are seriously better off.
Episode 13 My Naked Villainy

Empire Recap: For My Queens Apparently, Lucious suffers from myasthenia gravis, and this is the first that any of us are hearing of it.

Episode 12 Strange Bedfellows

Empire Recap: Happy Birthday, Hakeem! Oh, someone is definitely getting shot by the end of this season.
Episode 11 Play On

Empire Recap: The Devil’s Chord How many more guest stars can Empire throw at us?
Episode 10 Sound & Fury

Empire Recap: Batter Up Cookie has officially declared war against Lucious.
Episode 9 A Furnace for Your Foe

Empire Recap: Follow the Money Takeem is the absolute worst couple name.
Episode 8 The Unkindest Cut

Empire Recap: The Fashion Show “The Unkindest Cut” is a stunner of an episode.
Episode 7 What We May Be

Empire Recap: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Welcome to Empire, Phylicia Rashad!
Episode 6 Chimes at Midnight

Empire Recap: Hacked A cautionary tale about private email servers and nude photos.
Episode 4 Cupid Kills

Empire Recap: Lucifer Lyon Empire is really taking the ridiculousness to new heights.
Episode 3 What Remains Is Bestial

Empire Recap: Mutually Assured Destruction Mariah Carey is flawless.
Episode 2 Sin That Amends

Empire Recap: Post-Traumatic Lyon Disorder I love you, Empire, but I don’t know if you’re the right show to take on police brutality.
Episode 1 Light in Darkness

Episode 4 Bleeding War

Empire Recap: Me, Myself, and Lucious Finally, an answer to the question: Who else is a recording artist at Empire Records?
Episode 3 Evil Manners

Empire Recap: Who Is Lucious Lyon? Amnesia Lucious is not carrying his weight.
Episode 2 Full Circle

Empire Recap: Memory Lane Remember when this show was vaguely about music?
Episode 1 Noble Memory

Empire Season-Premiere Recap: The Big Bang “I’m Cookie Lyon. I’m unforgettable.”

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