{"id":1325,"date":"2015-12-22T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2015-12-22T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:47:36","slug":"the-fall-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/the-fall-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FALL OF EMPIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EMPIRE-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1326\" src=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EMPIRE-2-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"EMPIRE 2\" width=\"354\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EMPIRE-2-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EMPIRE-2-768x403.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EMPIRE-2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EMPIRE-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 85vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Although Empire is still the most watched show on Fox there is no denying the drastic drop in ratings.\u00a0 Season one was engaging and suspenseful and kept viewers looking forward to a new episode each week. In season 2 it seems as though the director and writers are folding under pressure to maintain the same level of success. With the excessive use of celebrity appearances and unnecessary, explicit sex scenes it seems as though the show is more focused on shock value rather than quality content.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the criticism of the show I was a fan of season one but I can\u2019t say the same about this season. The music of the show is still dope but there isn\u2019t enough creative content to keep me engaged.\u00a0 At times it even feels like I\u2019m watching a bad urban soap opera. The writers also seem confused about which direction they want to take the characters. One character in particular is Anika. In season one Anika was beautiful, independent and headstrong.\u00a0 This season after cutting ties with Empire she engages in a sexual relationship with Lucious\u2019 youngest son Hakeem which causes her to become overly obsessed with him. The show even reveals that she is pregnant by him. \u00a0In my opinion this character change just doesn\u2019t quite flow well with the show.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that the winter finale did do a great job with leaving viewers in a state of suspense. When the show ended Andre\u2019s pregnant wife Rhonda is pushed down the stairs and Luscious loses his Empire estate.<\/p>\n<p>Empire resumes March 30 , 2016. \u00a0Will you be tuning in?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/07\/cookie-is-serving-lyon-realness-in-empire-poster.html\">Vulture<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Empire is still the most watched show on Fox there is no denying the drastic drop in ratings.\u00a0 Season one was engaging and suspenseful and kept viewers looking forward to a new episode each week. In season 2 it seems as though the director and writers are folding under pressure to maintain the same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/the-fall-of-empire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE FALL OF EMPIRE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[75,132,168,210,314,467,469],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-film","tag-anika","tag-boo-boo-kitty","tag-cookie","tag-empire","tag-lucious-lyon","tag-taraji-p-henson","tag-terrence-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}