Empire Season One Finale Recap.

The Empire season one finale was hyped to be one of the best nights on TV and it lived up to that hype. It began slowly but I didn't mind because from the promos and all the interviews the cast was doing I knew that soon enough it would pick up and to blink would mean missing something juicy. My recap may be all over the place but that's just because I really was not able to make any notes so I did my best to remember the stand out scenes.

The season finale began with Lucious trying to write some new music for his final show (Cookie Lyon Presents The Lucious Lyon Sound) which he couldn't do without her. Cookie however was otherwise engaged on vacation with Malcolm her new man getting it on!!! It was advertised that Snoop Dog would make an appearance one the show and he enters at a press conference with Lucious who has usual is talking about Hackeem's music and not Jamal's. We see Lucious being served with legal papers from his rival Berreti who was trying to stop him from doing the concert with any of the songs that Berreti wrote for him back in the day at the concert. Hackeem is with his friends not answering his father's call because he was pissed about Lucious sending Camile away.

Now for the Juicy parts; Snoop performs Peaches and Cream a very nice funk song that I was definitely feeling. He called Hackeem on stage to do a freestyle and this boy goes on stage and burned his dad rapping about Lucious not being a real rapper that was all good and we'll until Hackeem says in the song infront of everyone at this party that he was going to take his father's Bitch. I was like Ohhh snap....Hackeem drops the mic and every thing walks off stage and there was no surprise when Lucious caught up to him in the hallway and punched his lights out.

Another stand out scene from the season finale was Andre going to church to visit Jenifer Hudson's character. Seemingly he has found God so he hands in his two weeks notice at the Empire but Lucious wasn't having that whatsoever. So he shows up at the church gives JHUD's character a record deal and she quits the church just like that.

Cookie gets back from her little vacation and is stopped by security before she can enter the building because Lucious was jealous when he found out she was with another man and decided that he wasn't going to allow Cookie to stay working at the Empire or produce his final concert. On top of that slap in the face from Lucious, Cookie finds out that Andre, her own son, screwed her over by letting her think she was on the Empire board of directors even though he knew a convicted felon couldn't be on the Board.
Next we see Lucious in the club talking to Jamal but I just felt the writers were just having Lucious con Jamal into helping him to write his new song. Jamal and Lucious go to the old house and have a great music session but "Nah son" Jamal wasn't going to have Lucious take is song. So Lucious strikes a deal with Jamal- in order to get Empire Jamal would have to be willing to "take it".

Jamal shows up at a party being thrown by Berreti and holds this man over the railing and makes him sign over all his father's songs.Yes y'all!!!!......Jamal went gangsta on us. Cookie shows up at the Lyons mansion becuase she got word Hackeem and Jamal were meeting with Berretti and wanted to know what Lucious had her "babies" doing. That scene ended with Lucious leaving to go get his boys but I thought that he really was just going to see if Jamal could actually go through with "taking the Empire"  and he saw that soon enough when he showed up the party. That wasn't the only show Lucious was gonna see for that night though becuase when he went to look for his beloved Jamal he walks into a room to find Anika aka Boo Boo Kitty and Hackeem pretty much having sex. They didn't even stop. These writers are too much.....they just had Anika and Hackeem continue kissing even after seeing Lucious walk in.
Another OMG moment was Lucious finding out he did not have ALS thus was not dying. Yes, you read that right Lucious is not going to die. That was the game change moment in the show. With this new diagnosis Lucious is placed on some new medication that had him seeing and talking to Bunkie. Cookie the good woman that she is was right there taking care of Lucious when he began hallucinating and making "God like" confessions that he killed Bunkie. After hearing Lucious confess Cookie tried to kill him in his sleep but we knew the writers were not gonna let her do it. At least not yet.

Lucious woke up the next morning acting like he was a new man giving out gifts and though I'd love to tell you about all the gifts he gave his sons only one stood out that gift was Jamal being handed the Empire. Jamal and Andre were not too happy about that and so they decided to team up with Anika and Cookie to carry out a hostile take over. Before they could start hashing out the details though the fight that we all have been waiting for since episode one finally happened. Let me tell you that was one of the best cat fights I've ever seen on TV. Cookie moved the pearls too. Anika tried to fight back but in the end Queen Cookie reigned.

Andre and Vernon ended up fighting in one of the final scenes and becuase there were reports that Malik Youba was going to be leaving the show  when Andre's wife hit him over the head I knew he wasn't just knocked out. Though it was clear self defense they didn't call the police her reasoning being she's pregnant. I wouldn't have written it like that but that just increases the suspense for what the next season of the show is going to bring in relation to their cover up of Vernons death.

At the concert Rita Ora performed, Jenifer Hudson and Snoop Dog and Patti Labelle and Jamal. Lucious got arrested and he immediately accuses Cookie of being the one to snitch on him. Seems though that the FBI are building their case based on Vernon being a star witness but he is dead. So maybe the case is going to be thrown out. The two hour event ends with Lucious in Jail about to get out in a few days (Season 2) and he is plotting against everybody. His final words before the credits was "Game on bitches." so you know Season 2 from the first episode is going to be great.

I'm looking to see how the writers are going to have Andre use Vernon's death to get back into Lucious's good graces and how Jamal being the only loyal one to Lucious is going to impact on the relationship with every one else after the hostile take over is carried out.  Until then keep reading my posts and stay tuned for my recaps on POWER season 2 beginning June 6.