Also in this scene, Frank Gathers has flashbacks to events he wasn’t present for.Ĭookie confronts Jamal about him partnering with Mimi. Meanwhile in prison, Cookie’s cousin tells Frank Gathers that she snitched on him. Mimi made a deal with Lucious and sneaked him a smartphone in jail for the creepiest FaceTime chat. The one thing they didn’t plan for was Mimi just being a straight-up cunning diva and double-crossing them. We’re only about halfway through this episode and Cookie is wearing a patchwork denim business jacket - this isn’t going to end well. As he’s leaving, he spots Gathers’s tiny daughter rapping and has a secret visitor.Īfter Boo Boo Kitty in her cream twinset reluctantly agrees to sleep with Mimi, Mimi appears to be on Cookie’s side, and the hostile takeover moves forward. Oh! Television public servants with their designer shoes and big titties all out! She offers Lucious a deal, but he pegs her as a Clarence Thomas type more interested in tearing other black people down to win elections than making a difference. Lucious meets with a prosecutor wearing Tom Ford shoes. This must be the Empire Sexy Bitches party package. It’s basically the same party they’d throw if Mimi were a man. A hologram of Richard Pryor playing the ghost of Lucious’s father.Ĭookie and the Hostile-Takeover Gang throw a sexy lesbian party for Mimi complete with bitches makin’ out in hot tubs. Wanda Sykes as a washed-up ‘90s rap star.
Cedric the Entertainer as a conflicted defense attorney.
I hope this season is just a revolving door of famous black comedians in dramatic roles. Frank Gathers arrives in prison and he’s played by … CHRIS ROCK. You do not wanna talk about putting hits on people while you’re literally in jail.Ĭookie’s cousin is in jail with Lucious and worries about retribution from Frank Gathers, the ominous drug dealer Cookie, et al, once worked for. He produces hit records and hates gay people! Jamal visits his father in jail and they have a sweet little catchup sesh.
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He sees Cookie and Mimi whispering on TV and gets furious because that’s what Lucious does. Meanwhile, Lucious is in prison being held without bail. Andre is waking up in a cold sweat thinking about burying Vernon. Jamal is feeling the pressure of running Empire and trying to reconcile with his ex (while trying to reconcile being uncomfortable around other gay people or something). Hakeem hates all the attention Jamal is getting, and his album keeps getting pushed back. Jamal is too busy singing in a white henley tee and white pants to notice everyone is scheming around him. Marisa Tomei plays Mimi Whiteman (because Mimi Caucasianberg was too on the nose?), who is going to invest a handsome sum of money in Empire, so Cookie, Hakeem, and Andre (and Boo Boo Kitty, I guess) can take controlling stake. The concert becomes the background for last season’s hostile takeover to be brought back. What’s next? Empire Records Presents the School to Prison Pipeline Pool Party? Whatever topical-event-inspired set piece the show does next isn’t as tone-deaf as lowering Cookie in a gorilla suit into a cage to represent the struggle of the black man in America. I appreciate calling out the prison-industrial complex and how it destroys black people’s lives, but we all can say Lucious did it, so the whole move comes off a bit tone-deaf. The episode starts with a fun cameo-filled #FreeLucious concert or, as I like to call it, “EMPIRE HAS FUN WITH THE NEWS!” As much fun as you can have at a rally calling out the prison-industrial complex. But who needs tension when you have Vogue contributing editor, former America’s Next Top Model judge, and personal friend to Mariah Carey André Leon Talley (appropriately) clocking Cookie’s 2013 “Heaven’s Bird” Gucci dress? But really, Cookie, once J.Lo wears a dress on the cover of W, it’s played out. A lot of the episode’s immediate threats of violence were handled so swiftly that tension didn’t get a chance to really seep into our bones. 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. The second she showed up in a high-end honky-tonk Florence and the Machine pantsuit, I thought we were in for a thrill ride. If you told me yesterday, “Hey, Empire is gonna add Predatory Lesbian Schemer Oscar Winner Marisa Tomei to this season,” I would have said, “If that’s real, I’ll eat my hat.” I’m sitting here with half a Cubs baseball cap in my mouth, praising the brilliance of Predatory Lesbian Schemer Oscar Winner Marisa Tomei.
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