Empire, the Thrill Is Gone (article)

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I haven't seen the show in a few weeks, it lost me...anybody else dropped the show? I loved the first season BTW

Empire, the Thrill Is Gone
I still watch it for the fukkery just like in Season 1 but while in Season 1 the fukkery was enjoyable, in Season 2 the fukkery is borderline embarrassing. I still watch but most of the time I am laughing at the show and not with it.

So it goes without saying that the show has a bunch of problems but none of them are insurmountable and could be fixed with a few tweaks but first they need to recognize the mistakes that were made.

They need to fix the character of Annika or just get rid of her. They screwed up by not having her and Lucious get married last season so that regardless of their relationship ending she would have still had a stake in Empire and been a presence at the company. But having her as this orbiting desperate fukk toy is disgraceful.

They need to re-establish the original dynamics between Jamal and Cookie/Lucious. Jamal as the right hand to Lucious doesn't work. One of the best things about the first season was Jamal and Cookie battling Lucious. They need to get back to that ASAP.

This whole Andre finding Jesus shyt is stupid. Andre and Rhonda should be scheming to get as much power as possible at Empire using everything from blackmail to kinky sex to accomplish their lust for power.

They also need to learn to slow shyt down and let storylines breath and be organic instead of hotshotting everything.

And stop with the celebrity guest stars! I read something lat week about Rosie O'Donnell being on the show this season. Who the fukk was looking for Rosie O'Donnell?
 

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Yeah I still watch but not as into it as the first season I mostly just catch it on demand when im bored
 

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The show is still very entertaining, I think the story line is so over the top that they (the writers) have set the bar too high. Since the show is based on a high level of fukkery, it was bound to have ebbs and flows in terms of how eventful each episode will be. I'm sure if the ratings start to slip, we will see main characters killed off and new ones introduced to keep people interested.
 

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They definitely are doing too much this season and not in the hilarious fukkery filled way it was last season. This season has been terrible, like no way luscious shouldn't still be in jail, that had potential, Chris rock this king pin and got offed like he never had clout..,wtf? What happened to luscious's trial? Vern being killed season 1 was dumb also....Hakeem was kidnapped for all of 3 minutes and two camera angles :heh:

it's like these dudes read twitter comments, looked at the memes empire inspired, and decided to mash all of it together and script nothing but shytty shock stories
 
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