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EPISODE
SEASON
Empire - Season 1 Episode 09: Unto the Breach
Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon, is diagnosed with a medical challenge and whilst he still wonders who would be his heir, the reappearance of Cookie, his ex-wife, complicates things.
4 December 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 March 1975, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
29 September 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 05, 2015
"Unto The Breach" demonstrates how Empire's furious, relentless pace is its biggest strength and its greatest weakness.
March 05, 2015
As much fun as it is to watch Empire pull out all the stops (and then throw in a few songs for good measure), the show runs the risk of going too quickly.
March 05, 2015
I blame the show's insatiable need for drama at the cost of any investment in its people. I think Empire is better than this.
March 05, 2015
For all its tonal seesawing, Empire once again showed, like it did in "False Imposition," that it works best when the family bands together for the greater good.
March 05, 2015
Mental illness is real, and Andre's continual downward spiral is probably one of the hardest things I've ever watched on television. But the necessity of this image - much like Jamal's sexuality - within the context of a black family can't be overlooked.
March 05, 2015
The feeling that Empire has done a great job of driving home from the start, though, is that particularly complicated sensation that allows us to still receive so much joy from a piece of art, even when we know of the awful deeds done by the artists.
March 05, 2015
This was another week heavy on the emotions and it's really setting us up nicely for the final two episodes.
