There's no denying Dre's methods prove effective in bending Gina Gershon's absolutely ridiculous/fabulous/not-so-subtly racist fashion designer Helene von Wyatt to his will.
Every now and then... the show will hit it out of the park. It's like Empire suddenly got a full night of sleep and had an açaí-smoothie bowl before showing up to work instead of snorting a packet of Emergen-C like it usually does.