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The series centers around a hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders' family as they fight for control of the company. In Season 2, knowing Lucious won’t be held much longer in prison, Cookie and her allies within the Lyon family make a desperate attempt to seize control of the company.
"Time Shall Unfold" slowed down considerably from the last three crazy installments. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible. It seems like this episode was the calm before the storm.
This episode was a good one. We had a deliciously ominous opening as Luscious' dusty henchman Thirsty Rawlings snuck up on Jamal's kid on a playground and snatched a lock from her hair in order to disprove paternity.
There's no way any of this should work, but somehow most of it does, even while the show continues in the same baffling direction. That's no minor feat.
Of all the ridiculous Empire developments this season, this one has to be the best because it sets up massive future conflicts that are purely Lyon-family oriented.
Ugh, kind of a disappointing episode all around. I'm disappointed in the characters, in the songs (honestly trying to remember one right now), and in the more tired plots, like Lucious being a horrible father.
Old-school villainy of this sort is what keeps the leading Lyon interesting: Just when you think he's all about cutthroat business tactics, industrial espionage, and the occasional murder, he pulls "I keep my crazy mother in an attic" out of his hat.
"Time Shall Unfold" packs some of the same punch as the fall finale, putting the pieces in place to make Lucious a target for retaliation. If the remaining episodes of this season are as powerful, the finale could be well worth the wait.