Empire, Finale

The finales are lining up left, right and centre over the last few weeks, we have had sudden deaths, fires, weddings, lives in the balances and musical dramas like Empire. I will shine the spotlight on the sister series Star tomorrow.

So Empire season four, what's happened? We have lost Xzibit as a regular (yep he gone), the Lyons boys have all struggled with romance with Hakeem still being rather popular with the ladies and Demi Moore and her daughter Rumer Willis have also both left.

We got to see Queen Latifah crossover in one of the worst TV crossovers with Star, Funkmaster Flex guest starred as himself and it looks like Taye Diggs might have finally left as he joins the new CW series All American.

The finale had all the drama of a regular episode with two departures. I mentioned one earlier but for a full SPOILER alert go HERE, it's a great recap on one of TV's most watched musical dramas.

The show has already been renewed for a fifth season (Star too has been renewed for a third outing) so it's onwards and upwards for the series.

Who will join season five? Where is Jamal off to? And what happens to Hakeem, Tiana and newcomer Blake? Lot's of questions which I am sure will be revealed in part one of the series in September this year. Yes the show has just wrapped but programmers will be looking for series return dates real soon.

Empire which generally (like the Walking Dead) airs in two blocks of nine episodes, one block before Christmas and one around later March. It's nice we get the series almost in two consecutive blocks of nine episodes. Unlike some other series which breaks every other week.

FOX has struggled this year ratings wise, so it's lucky Empire still has a fairly loyal following despite the storylines getting more and more random. Thank god for Cookie as she still steals every scene she is in and those outfits, SHIT!

Empire it's been real in 2017-2018, I eagerly await season five.