Recaps

Of all the threads to be pulled from the sprawling legacy of the Wu-Tang Clan, a new documentary on the legendary crew tugs on one…

Taylor Swift followed her historic expression of a political opinion this week by kicking off the 2018 American Music Awards with a performance of "I Did Something…

For the latest episode of his Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, David Letterman spoke with Jay-Z about the rapper's upbringing, his past as a drug dealer, rap…

Lorde brought out Jack Antonoff (a.k.a. Bleachers) at her Governor's Ball set in New York on Friday, June 2. The duo had a lot to…

SPIN celebrated its 14th annual South By Southwest day party at Stubb’s last Friday, March 18, presented by Harley-Davidson and Bud Light, with an eclectic lineup featuring Deftones, CHVRCHES,…

Apologies for missing last week’s episode. Your humble recapper was traveling on Thanksgiving eve, and to be honest, Empire isn’t a good enough show to…

Credit where credit is due — a rap battle is the perfect high-stakes musical set piece for Empire, and the show largely pulled off Hakeem Lyon…

Empire, a show that’s about family, business, and the messy things that happen when they overlap, is really bad at showing the whole business part of…

Thanks to Lucious Lyon's (and Becky G’s) ruthlessness, Empire Records has had no problem dealing with Cookie’s upstart Lyon Dynasty label. Empire the television program,…

This episode didn’t matter. Seriously. Because of Empire’s breakneck plotting, and the way it picks up and jettisons plotlines from episode to episode…

Why do the Lyons keep hanging out with one another? Well, the answer is because it’s a TV show, and the scenes in which Lucious and…

In a show full of conniving characters who’ve never seen a back they couldn’t stab, we may have a new frontrunner for the title of…

The second episode of Empire’s sophomore season opens with what’s essentially a montage recapping an episode that... doesn’t exist. Armed only with cardboard boxes full…

The craziest thing about Empire (well, aside from the fact that its star thinks he’s reinvented math), is just how coherent the show is, despite the rapid-fire…