Will “Empire” Be The Black “Dynasty”?
The Independent asks: ‘Can a gloriously over-the-top splashy soap opera of a show about a hip-hop mogul, his warring sons and his vengeful wife become the first must-see drama of 2015? Lee Daniels, the writer, director and producer behind films as varied as the harrowing “Precious” and steamy melodrama “The Paperboy,” thinks so. The show in question, “Empire,” which starts on US television next week, is Daniels’ first TV series, a musical melodrama with a soundtrack from über-producer Timbaland and a cast headed by Oscar-nominees Terrence Howard and Taraji P Henson. Daniels believes it will revolutionise network television.’ Of course he does. Frankly, the show looks the-wrong-kind-of-trashy to me. My favorite line in the promo materials is that Naomi Campbell plays “an older woman.”
