Cookie tries to convince the board that Lucious is fine, knowing Lucious won’t be held much longer in prison a plot is up to displace him from the company.
All in all, the episode wasn't lacking in drama, but the over the top feel was taken down a few notches, and I can only hope Lee Daniels and Co. are packing their furs and flashing lights away with the intention of keeping the show tasteful.
I'm willing to accept [Lucious] as purely a plot device from this point on, if only because his affect on the others has spurred some interesting moments.
Watching Cookie hustle is one of the best parts of Empire. Like the animals whose prints cover her shoes, she's at her fiercest when she's backed into a corner, ready to claw her way out.
Props to Cookie, though, for invoking Sandra Bland, the African-American woman whose mysterious death in police custody was ruled a suicide this summer, during her arrest. ("If I die in police custody, it was not a suicide!")
