![]() ![]() Really, it’s getting difficult to understand why this many women value Hakeem’s affection enough to weather the trouble he causes. It’s hard to picture her genuinely jilted over this guy, but maybe we just haven’t seen her in so long that we don’t know what she thinks. It’s understandable for Tiana to worry about how her boss’s growing relationship with her tour opener is going to affect her standing at the label, since things historically go badly for the women Hakeem dates once he moves on. Tiana seems jealous of the closeness between Hakeem and Laura, especially when he makes a very public display of proposing to her after a show. He finds a way to monetize his messy habit of sleeping with everyone on the label as he teams up with Tiana and Laura for a song. The other ace double-dealer this week is Hakeem. Lucious is cold enough to keep Freda close knowing he is her father’s killer, but the guilt seems dizzying to Cookie. This leads her to a new allegiance with Jamal and Episode 13’s other big reveal: Cookie had no idea Freda was the daughter of her dead drug boss Frank Gathers. Lucious revealing the specifics of the abuse he suffered as a child quietly endears him to Cookie, but it drives Freda Gatz away because the song’s new direction leaves her contribution on the cutting room floor. This seems too hard a stance for someone whose life was forever changed by an immediate family member’s mental illness, but it also speaks to Lucious’s brackish, impulsive nature. The “Boom” video has a few other repercussions: Andre and Lucious finally have it out, and the father finally admits that his son’s mental illness embarrasses him. They should be annoyed, but having that anger outweigh the shock of the revelation that their father witnessed his mother’s suicide as a child is typical “Empire” placing the gears of the plot ahead of natural human reactions. ![]() ![]() What should’ve been a tearful moment goes naturally askew in the “Empire” universe as Lucious’s sons immediately react with disbelief to the news that he would have kept his mother’s illness from his family. He tells it in the “Boom Boom Boom Boom” video at Cookie’s urging and screens it for the family at her surprise birthday party. We finally get the full story of how Dwight Walker became Lucious Lyon and all the lurid details of his troubled childhood. While last week’s resolution to the Camilla and Mimi saga carried the weight of a Shakespearean tragedy, Episode 13 advanced some plot quirks that have been plaguing us for months. Season 2, Episode 13: ‘The Tameness of a Wolf’ ![]()
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