The family that tears each other down stays together in the new Empire trailer

As always, the theme of the day is “family,” the nuclear force that’s always threatening to bind together, tear apart, or just plain detonate the staff of Empire Entertainment. Under its nebulous guidance, though, it looks like everybody’s still up to their usual tricks: Lucious yells while people point guns at him, alliances are brewed, and Taraji P. Henson calls someone Yoko, in a slightly below-par example of a classic Cookie Burn. In other words, business as usual for the music business (or at least the show’s version of it, in which Pepsi advertisements and the launches of streaming services take on the grandeur of civil wars and sneering duels between rival kings.)