TOTAL AND UTTER CRAZINESS ALERT!
Yes, even by this show’s lofty standards, Empire Season 2 Episode 10 delivered on the OMG/Bat $ hit Crazy/Wait-Did-That-Really-Happen front. And then some.
Let’s take a close look at what went down on the winter finale, shall we?
We’ll start with Lucious, who decided to announce Empire’s acquisition of SwiftStream on the same day of the American Sound Award nominations. But what transpired after he passed the microphone to Mimi, his “business partner in crime?”
She called her wife to the stage!
And that woman in question turned out to be Naomi Campbell’s Camilla. Juicy!
Turns out, Mimi had been secretly recording her conversations with the CEO, revealing to the Empire board of directors Lucious’ total hated for following the rules of a publicly traded company.
She proceeded to call for an emergency vote later that evening to oust him from his perch as chairman.
Cookie and Hakeem were performing at the former’s former prison when Andre told them about Mimi and Camilla’s takeover maneuver.
Because Cookie chose to stay behind to reconnect with a prison pal who had recently received a life sentence for killing her cellmate, she passed her proxy power to Hakeem.
You can imagine how that went, right?
Indeed: Hakeem goes against his family’s wishes in the meeting and votes with Camilla… who is installed as Empire’s head honcho right there on the spot.
Once the plan is finalized, she receives a wad of spit in her face, courtesy of Cookie.
And how did Lucious respond to his ousting? By shooting up his study, of course. Fortunately, Cookie is there to tell him to calm down and come up with a plan to protect his family’s legacy.
Elsewhere, Rhonda permitted a wild-eyed Anika to hang out at her home and go off about her one-time-almost-future-daughter-in-law-and-then-sister-in-law’s amazing life. Chalk it up to pregnancy hormones?
Later on, an intruder broke into Rhonda and Andre’s residence, shoving Rhonda down her enormous staircase and, we presume, putting an end to said pregnancy. Sad. Shocking. Horrifying, really.
Finally, Skye realized that her sole night of passion with Jamal wasn’t about to become a full-fledged romance, considering the whole gay thing.
Butt this didn’t stop Lucious from declaring him “fixed” (really, man?!?) by a female’s love… or spreading the word to Jamal’s wealthy gay David Geffen-like patron.
Is that enough for you to digest?
It’s gonna have to be: you can always watch Empire online, but you won’t be able to return to the Lyons’ den for new episodes until March 30, 2016.
