By Michael Slezak / 4 2015, 6:57 PM PST november
“Cowboy, simply simply Take Me Away” isn’t only a winner because of the Dixie Chicks, it might additionally make a very good alternative name for Season 2, Episode 6 of Empire.
Except, this is not story about resting for a pillow of bluebonnets, in a blanket made from stars. Nope, the topics with this story have longhorn bulls crudely tattooed between their neck — and their leader that is undercover Rodriguez’s Laz Delgado, has not simply infiltrated Lyon Dynasty documents, but additionally Cookie Lyon’s heart.
You realize when our woman ultimately understands that Laz was usually the one behind Hakeem’s abduction and brutalization, she’ll make her typical practices look like butterfly kisses. Oh, and she is definitely, definitely likely to call him “bitch.” (the sole real question is just how many times she will drop the b-bomb on their lying, sorry ass.)
But until that delicious comeuppance comes, why don’t we recap the action from “A High a cure for a Low Heaven.”
HAKEEM’S BACK… OR IS HE? | Lucious and Cookie negotiate Hakeem’s release from his captors using $40,000 in cash, however the traumatized youngest Lyon takes his busted-up eye and badly damaged psyche straight to the doorway of… Boo Boo Kitty! He kisses her like he is attempting to show their manhood, also it renders me personally wondering if he endured intimate attack during their captivity. (Am we overthinking right here, or did you’ve got that sudden, horrifying idea, too?) straight right right Back at Lyon HQ, he blames Lucious and Cookie for just what occurred to him, though if they are to be blamed for the popularity that is placed a target on his straight straight straight back, should never he also thank them for the popularity in and of it self?
Hakeem spirals into a very nearly hallucinatory state as he rehearses for a huge performance along with his Latina woman team, okcupid but behind the scenes, Lucious is negotiating with Cookie to allow their son return to the Empire label — although she is perhaps maybe maybe not invited along for the ride. Continue reading “Empire Recap: Boom, Boom, Boom. Do not Get Back To Their Place”