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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.
Empire's writers helpfully introduced this new group of antagonists to extort and terrorize Lyon Dynasty right at the moment when it doesn't seem like the First Family of Hip-Hop/Duplicity could hate each other more.
It's not that Empire hasn't had good moments in Season 2, but the appropriately named "Be True" is the first time the show has really felt like itself.
Whatever the pleasures audiences take in Empire's familial warfare, I think people also genuinely want to see the Lyons repair their relationships, and it seems as though Andre is laying the groundwork for such a thing to happen
It's a disappointing twist. There have been so many family feuds and reconciliations in every single episode of Empire this season that there hasn't been a chance for the drama to escalate into a full-blown war, which the show really needs.
When tonight's episode - "Be True" (as in the Shakesperean "To thine own self...") - dunked the eldest of Emperor Lucious the First's three sons in the baptismal font, it also put him in the hot seat.
Being forgiven for mistakes doesn't always equal gainful employment, but in the Empire universe, having a seat at the table is the worth its weight in gold.