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EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
Empire - Season 2 Episode 17: Rise by Sin
Cookie tries to convince the board that Lucious is fine, knowing Lucious won’t be held much longer in prison a plot is up to displace him from the company.
21 March 1962, Commack, Long Island, New York, USA
15 January 1957, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
January 17, 1997 in Miami, Florida, USA
24 May 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 November 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
7 July 1986, Haines City, Florida, USA
May 16, 2016
By the end of "Rise by Sin," audience members were given a moment to decompress after a dramatic, disheartening and chaotic episode, but audience members may also be used to that.
May 12, 2016
Amazingly, the assassination attempt is arguably not the most explosive event of the episode; on Empire, the verbal pyrotechnics are just as impressive.
May 12, 2016
They've done it... This is the perfect Empire episode. FIVE STARS. Somehow, the writers have managed to pick up damn near every random story line they wrote and dropped this season.
May 12, 2016
If he loves them at all-and Empire needs to stop trying to make "sympathetic, tortured" Lucious happen. It's only bringing the character arcs of everyone else on the show down.
May 12, 2016
I literally have no words. Let's just pause for a moment and let the bile return from our throats back to our stomachs where it belongs.
May 12, 2016
This episode and the last episode are far from perfect television, but they boast a sense of urgency and purpose that the rest of Empire's second season has sorely lacked.
May 12, 2016
"Rise By Sin" in particular pulled together the most emotionally resonant and long-simmering elements of Season 2 into a fast-paced, powerful episode.
