(Whether or not she pulls the trigger remains to be seen in a future episode, most likely.) At a particularly vulnerable moment, she points a loaded gun at her head in front of her young son as he looks on in terror. Via various flashbacks, Lucious’ mother (Kelly Rowland) has been slowly revealed to have suffered from an unspecified mental illness when he was a child, and in the latest episode, “True Love Never,” her arc reaches a climax. Cookie’s quips and candor were the draw of Empire, and everyone else was along for the ride.īut now that Lucious is no longer living on borrowed time (having been misdiagnosed with ALS in one of the show’s smartest twists), Season 2 has attempted to rectify his one-dimensionality by saddling him with a haunted past and serious mommy issues. This worked for the show, in part because his flatness fit in with the rest of the drama’s mostly broad-stroked characters, and because there was Cookie. Lucious Lyon has never been a particularly interesting character-in Season 1, he’s a one-dimensional villain who only cares about securing his legacy at Empire in the years to come.
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