"Empire is a classic story, jazzed up with a Timbaland beat."
-- Molly Eichel, THE AV CLUB

"The pilot suggests Empire could become addictive, juicy prime-time soap."
-- Rob Owen, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

"If the rest of the series is anything like the pilot, this is one party you don’t want to miss."
-- Lori Rackl, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Deadline Hollywood's review:



Series regulars include Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson and Jussie Smollet, with recurring characters played by Gabourey Sidibe, Courtney Love, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Naomi Campbell among others. Danny Strong and Lee Daniels (The Butler) are the creators and Brian Grazer is an executive producer. The series premieres tomorrow on FOX at 9PM.

This was hands-down my favorite pilot of the bunch this past season - I watched the first episode like 3 times over the summer and have been eagerly anticipating its debut for months now. It's a complete soapy delight and Taraji P. Henson steals every scene she is in. It's also handsomely produced and sets up a number of intriguing storylines. I'd highly recommend checking it out and hope it does well for FOX.

Favorite scene of the show:

Cookie hitting one of her sons with a broom after he called her a bitch.


It premiered nicely (3.7/10, 9.83m).

This show is everything. The second episode was hilarious.

"What, you gonna Ray Rice Me?" - Cookie (best quote of the second episode)

"Whatcha mean by you people? You black like me!!!" - Cookie (best quote by far of tonight's episode!)

No wonder it's getting awesome ratings!!

I understand why it's getting outstanding ratings. This is an awesome show. The best part of Wednesday's episode was Cookie confronting Lucious about him getting engaged to Anika, "Last Wednesday (coincidentally it airs on that day), you come to my house to give me a rose after you proposed to this bitch?!"

once again Empire is setting social media on fire. Expect another ratings increase tomorrow.this show is truly becoming a phenomenon.

5.1 in demo with almost 13 million viewers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caught up on this tonight. This show is soapy epicness

Jamal came out! That was such an awesome episode but what made it even more awesome was Jamal singing The Lion King to his daughter.

That scene was painfully cheesy

Let's get this to 15 million viewers by tomorrow. Twitter was once again all about Empire tonight. The other networks might as well just run reruns from 9-10 until empire goes off. Clearly Empire is pretty much the fire right now.

Cookie saying #ByeFelicia was so entertaining!!!!

My favorite scene of last night's episode was the brothers singing Lean on Me together in the elevator when they were stuck due to power outage!!

You know this show is huge when after only 8 episode SNL is already doing a spoof of out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUSUIG17A2k

I'm really looking forward to the finale.

I know that Lucious is not going to be happy about Malcolm and Cookie hooking up together.

I didn't even watch the last couple of episodes, but that season finale was insanely entertaining. The corniness and the amount of selfish/unlikeable characters is not appealing to me though. It will end up being a show I check out only every now then if I have nothing else to do.

I started watching this yesterday and I'm already on episode 7.

This show is crack. No wonder why exploded like this

what the fuck at the season finale? ha batshit cray

I feel they used like two seasons worth of storylines in those final two hours

I'm finally catching up on this show and Cookie Lyon has changed my life. Queen Taraji, man.

That season finale was so epic!!!! My favorite part is where Lucious and Jamal sang together in the first part of the finale. I knew that but what shocked was when came out of nowhere and killed . Now, she is pregnant! This is going to be a long 5+ months on what's going to happen next!!!!!!!!

I watched the 10th episode today. LOL at the father reveal and Jennifer Hudson's two minute cameo where she wants to "pray" Will probably watch the finale tomorrow.

Finally finished the season. Ugh, so good.

The finale was the best thing to ever air on TV. The Cookie and Annika fight

The finale felt like a whole season in a two hour episode.

Just started this on Hulu, liking it so far! Taraji is awesome. Jamal is hot lol