This insane commercial is shrill, awful, and an affront to basic decency, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It…

What is this Empire, where did it come from, and where has it been hiding for all these weeks? The Empire of “Sins Of…

“Unto The Breach” demonstrates how Empire’s furious, relentless pace is its biggest strength and its greatest weakness.…

“This is not a family; this is a disgrace.”

Ideally, every episode of Empire would be as good as the pilot, or “The Devil Quotes Scripture,” and the show would…

Six episodes in, it’s becoming clear Empire is a show that has to be appreciated on a scene-by-scene basis, not a show…

One thing can be said for certain about Empire: It is never boring. “Dangerous Bonds” is an incredibly dense, chaotic…

“False Imposition” is scatterbrained and suffers from a lack of structure, but many of its individual pieces are…

Fox has officially renewed Empire for a second season, which is exciting news even though it seemed a foregone…

“The Outspoken King” almost seems as if it was written with the specific goal of setting fire to the goodwill Empire…

It could be a while before I’m ready to give myself permission to fully engage with Empire. Not a “couple of episodes”…