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Empire - Season 2 Episode 12: A Rose by Any Other Name
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.
'A Rose by Any Other Name' was another solid episode of this sophomore drama. The stage is set for a thrilling Empire Season 2 Episode 13, and the drama doesn't appear to be slowing down.
Tonight's episode - "A Rose by Any Other Name" - may be named after a line from one of Shakespeare's sonnets, but it's more concerned with comedy than poetry, and all the better for it.
Empire has lost the ability to make anyone care about the war for the "throne." If this show exists in a world where Hakeem Lyon can legitimately be the CEO of a company, are there any stakes at all?
It's typical bulletproof Lucious villainy, but in fairness, Lucious and Jamal's peaceful competition for the ASA Awards was never going to last, and the song we got out of the squabble is the show's best in some time.
In the case of Camilla and Mimi, their offings carried all the dramatic weight of when you empty your kitchen dishdrain filled with leftover cereal flakes into a trash bin.
I've been watching Empire since it premiered, and the writing and editing have always moved the story forward in a credible manner, but there was something amiss in last night's episode, specifically the last five minutes.