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EPISODE
SEASON
Empire - Season 1 Episode 08: The Lyons Roar
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 01, 2015
Cookie is still working, delicately balancing the camp and the pathos.
March 05, 2015
"The Lyon's Roar" is another prime example of how this show can go from intriguing to inept at a moment's notice.
March 01, 2015
Andre is the Jan Brady of Empire.
March 01, 2015
With Hakeem, we can put the brooms away; he's finally acting his age, not his shoe size.
March 01, 2015
"The Lyon's Roar" is Empire at its best. It moves with breakneck speed between each scene, from recording sessions to parties, from backroom intrigue to backroom hookups.
March 01, 2015
As both writer and director of "The Lyon's Roar," [Danny Strong] managed to crank out an episode rife with big and little moments of drama, while maintaining a bit of Lee Daniels melodrama to boot.
March 01, 2015
Man, Lucious is a really hard character to like, isn't he? Terrence Howard is a gifted actor and he plays Lucious as a very cold, calculating man, but he hits the emotional beats so well that you can go from hating him to liking him in an instance.
