Guest stars for Season 3 include Eva Longoria, Demi Moore, Rumer Willis, and Mariah Carey. Joining them are Kaitlin Doubleday as Rhonda Lyon, Grace Byers as Anika Lyon, Andre Royo as Thirsty Rawlings, Leslie Uggams as Leah Walker, Phylicia Rashad as Diana DuBois, and Taye Diggs as Angelo DuBois. Henson as Cookie Lyon, Trai Byers as Andre Lyon, Jussie Smollett as Jamal Lyon, and Bryshere Y.

'Empire' stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, Taraji P. The Lyons' unity is tested further when the DuBois clan goes to war against them. Hakeem attempts to turn a new leaf out of a desire to be taken seriously after wreaking havoc at his own party. Lucious and Cookie start a new feud over the direction of Empire, and their jealousy over each other's new lovers only adds fuel to the fire. Without further damaging his family, he must decide which of his three sons will take over. (Well, not at the same time.Rhonda's fate is revealed following the previous season's cliffhanger ending, while Jamal develops PTSD and struggles to make music after his ordeal. Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon, has always ruled unchallenged, but a medical diagnosis predicts he will be incapacitated in three years, which prompts the sharks to circle.

Someone who I thought was named Neal but who turns out to be a performer called Ne-Yo, which is his real name and is maybe famous in real life (what do I know?), is advising Jamal in the studio about “feeling the whole universe when you sing.” Speaking of feeling, the sleazy artist who painted Jamal’s Rolling Stone cover gives Jamal and his BF a mini lecture on how gay marriage is just promulgating hetero-norm shackles, then fellates both of them. Welcome to season two, episode five of Empire! Andre is confessing his sins to anyone who will listen in order to be baptized (but alas, Jennifer Hudson will not sing at the ceremony), and Tiana, after writhing around oiled up and half naked for the cameras, gets jacked by a couple of mean girls with razor blades in their teeth. The wonderful Porsha has been fired (though her name in the credits indicates it’s not for long) the wide-eyed Laura, who sang “Blue Bayou” in Spanish last week, rebuffs Hakeem’s advances, says she just wants to make people happy with her music, and sports floral toddler overalls to prove her innocence. Lucious is a free man, all charges having been dropped after Vernon’s dead body was put in the passenger seat of the prosecutor’s car. Not since Alexander Wang filled a pier with pole dancers after his Spring 2016 show has there been such a party! But it’s all to celebrate the relaunch of the pungently named Gutter Life Records, Lucious Lyon’s latest endeavor.

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