That’s sort of what I was referring to when I said no Laura Palmer.ĭEADLINE: So Lucious isn’t dying, he’s just watching his IPO sink and the company stock collapse from inside a cell? Our showrunner Ilene and I co-wrote Episode 12 together and I didn’t really view it as a cliffhanger because for me, it was the fact that we resolved Lucious’ ALS this season and who was going to inherit the empire. STRONG: Well, I guess it is a cliffhanger. Record Breaker: 'Empire' Soundtrack Scores Rare No. Henson’s Cookie, another member of the inner circle was seemingly killed, and the season-long prepared IPO of the company went off – with a behind-bars hitch.ĭrilling into the shame of racism in America, subverting the soap genre, the influence of Norman Lear, and where the January 17 announced Season 2 stands, Strong chatted with me about tonight’s finale and the secret of the show’s success.ĭEADLINE: You promised no cliffhangers last week, Danny, no “Laura Palmer,” and yet you ended Season 1 with Lucious Lyon arrested, in jail and promising “Game time, bitches.” How is that not a cliffhanger? With Mario Van Peebles directing the first hour and Debbie Allen helming the second, the season’s 12th episode also had fist fights and hair pulling, the murder of cousin Bunkie by Lucious was revealed to Taraji P. With endings both literal and figurative and new beginnings, two overriding plotlines were resolved, with Terrence Howard’s Lucious Lyon discovering he wasn’t actually dying of ALS and middle son Jamal, played by Jussie Smollett, anointed heir to the empire over his two seething brothers Andre and Hakeem, played by Trai Byers and Bryshere Y. Daniels, Strong, showrunner Ilene Chaiken and fellow EP Brian Grazer packed a lot into those 120 minutes as some of this season’s issues of race, sexuality, succession, betrayal and class came to a soapy climax.
Rows of episodes whose number by airdate differs from number by production sequence are marked in gray.SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s Empire Season 1 finale on Fox.Īfter a freshman season that saw Fox’s hip-hop family drama Empire break all the recent rules of television and jump up week after week in viewership since its January 7 debut, the Lee Daniels- and Danny Strong-created series had its two-hour season finale tonight. The list is initially sorted by original air date. This is a sortable list of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic episodes in a single continuous list. For a more detailed list of these episodes, see Friendship is Magic animated media.
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