In a recent Rolling Stone profile, Howard revealed that when he was a young boy, he witnessed his father kill another man-which in this context sounds awfully similar to Lucious potentially witnessing his own mother’s suicide. Now, though, the similarities don’t seem as funny or apt-they feel cheaply exploited for drama. The show has always walked that line, though usually more delicately-I’ve joked about Howard being perfect for the role of Lucious because their cavalier attitudes about women and strange, otherworldly outlooks on life ( Howard does not believe that 1+1 = 2) seem to align perfectly. It’s a weird moment not just because it’s so incredibly reckless, but because it seems to be playing into Terrence Howard’s actual public persona as an off-kilter man prone to violent outbursts. (Whether or not she pulls the trigger remains to be seen in a future episode, most likely.) At a particularly vulnerable moment, she points a loaded gun at her head in front of her young son as he looks on in terror. Via various flashbacks, Lucious’ mother (Kelly Rowland) has been slowly revealed to have suffered from an unspecified mental illness when he was a child, and in the latest episode, “True Love Never,” her arc reaches a climax. Cookie’s quips and candor were the draw of Empire, and everyone else was along for the ride.īut now that Lucious is no longer living on borrowed time (having been misdiagnosed with ALS in one of the show’s smartest twists), Season 2 has attempted to rectify his one-dimensionality by saddling him with a haunted past and serious mommy issues. This worked for the show, in part because his flatness fit in with the rest of the drama’s mostly broad-stroked characters, and because there was Cookie. Lucious Lyon has never been a particularly interesting character-in Season 1, he’s a one-dimensional villain who only cares about securing his legacy at Empire in the years to come.
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