Before Taraji P Henson was living in a prison on Empire, she was an RA living in the dorms on Felicity. She looks the same now as she did when she was 18 on that 1998 episode.
Before Trai Byers was trying to run his father’s record label on Empire, he was trying to stay alive in Caesar and Otto’s Summer Camp Massacre. He looks the same now as he did when he was 25 in that 2009 movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sa5duT7IM8
Tonight’s Empire on Fox at 9p is so thrilling that you will be exhausted by the time the opening credits roll.
The episode starts off with the FBI raiding the Empire offices and by the end of it, at least one of the leads will be arrested.
Besides all of that, Jamal (Jussie Smollett) and Hakeem (Yazz) will finally shoot their music video and it is hot. Like Taylor Swift and Rihanna wish their videos were as hot.
There is so much more, but I am not going to spoil it. I fear what Cookie (Taraji P Henson) will do to me. But I will tell you this, there is a great scene between Lucious (Terrence Howard) and her tonight. One you don’t want to miss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhhYJXV508A Rosewood is Fox’s latest procedural and it feels like it is trapped in the ’80s.
Rosewood (Morris Chestnut) is a medical examiner in Miami and he is obsessed with death. There is a reason he is so obsessed and you will find out by the end of the episode.
Everyone in Miami PD is used to him and letting him tag along with them. That is until the recently transferred Det. Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz) joins the force. She hates death and she hates working with Rosewood. When she realizes she has no choice, she takes him with her but she makes things difficult. Then when they solve the murder, she is OK with working him.
Rosewood is a cross between Miami Vice and Dexter, but it is more Miami Vice than Dexter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGVpAyObYw
Then at 9p, the moment you’ve been waiting for all summer is here, Empire is back! I ain’t going to tell you too much because I don’t want you to go all Cookie on me.
The season premiere picks up a few months after the finale Lucious (Terrence Howard) is in jail, Jamal (Jussie Smollett) is the head of Empire but Cookie is running things. Dre (Trai Byers) and Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray) are not happy about their little brother being in charge and things are going to get crazy!
That is why we love Empire, it is just as good at being bad as it was last season. What more could we ask for?
Jussie Smollett is a very brave man. He knows that his Empire co-star hates when he secretly records her, but yet he keeps doing it to Taraji P Hensen. Not only does he hit record, he uploads the video to social media. Then when she does talk shows, she is reminded of what he did to her.
So right now, Cookie is keeping it to just some slapping and telling him, “I hate you.” As time goes on, she might get some ideas on how to handle him from the writers of their hit show. And we all know what happened in the pilot. We’ve all been afraid of brooms since.
