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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