Season 4, Episode 9 – Hear the Lyons roar in a midseason finale that hits all the intoxicating notes of revenge.

Seasom 4, Episode 8 – Empire delivers its best twist yet, and nothing else.

Season 4, Episode 7 – Empire struggles to find its footing in a world where things just happen, messages get mixed, and nothing seems to matter.

Season 4, Episode 6 – The Empire strikes back! Not only is this a great episode of soap opera television and a return to form, but the Lyon family gets totally destroyed.

Season 4, Episode 5 – Empire decides it’s finally time to move on with this drawn out plot, but not without one last hurrah.

Season 4, Episode 4 – The war is confusing and it’s getting things away from what really matters this season.

Season 4, Episode 3 – “Empire” struggles to find meaning beyond Andre and a police detective stripping for each other between a city street and an 80 foot drop.

Season 4, Episode 2 – Empire is committed to this “Lucious-amnesia” plotline and at times it comes off as frustrating.