Empire Episode Nine Review.

       Episode Nine of Empire was not so great but was still good. The first five minutes had me but the middle was kind of jumbled, the end had me saying Ohhh snap and then as soon as I was getting into it the show ended I felt cheated. Let me take you through it. If you didn't watch let me warn you there will be spoilers.
        In the beginning of episode nine we saw Anika and Lucious meeting at home with their wedding planner sorting out the detail for their wedding. In comes Cookie and Portia telling Lucious that Boo Boo Kitty has been playing him and is actually now working with is rival Berreti. For those of us who hate the character Anika I'm sure we were all happy to say "Bye Fellicia" in unison with Cookie who immediately begins to throw Anika's clothes out of the house. Anika's action sends Lucious and his Empire into war with Berriti and things got crazy from there with every one trying to ensure Empire does not lose its artistes to Berreti. There were guns drawn but no shots were actually fired only words thrown.
           Jamal did his thing with the beautiful and talented Estelle who entered the show as Delphene and they did a beautiful duet titled "Conqueror" which may just be my favorite song from the show so far. Jamal also gave Lucious a peice of his mind aaagain re his homophobia. Close to the end Lucious came around and we saw them come togther alongside Delphene, Tiana, Hackeem and Cookie to perform the much talked about song from last week's episode "You're So Beautiful"- it was great to finally hear Terrence Howard sing.
          After all the above ended the next scene was Andre having a full psychological break down inside the Empire board room. We did know that more of his mental troubles was going to come to the fore front based on happenings in the previous episode and he definitely gave us a crazy believable performance
then was brought out tied down to a stretcher.
           Next week on Empire Season One Episode Ten Andre is going to be diagnosed as bipolar, Jennifer
Hudson will enter as his music therapist and new love interest and as usual we will get a lot of drama from
the Lyon family. I can't wait.