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Empire Recap: Season 2, Episode 8: ‘My Bad Parts’ rises in ratings

Brooke Pawling Stennett
(c)2015 Fox Broadcasting Co. (Chuck Hodes/FOX)

You can read my previous recaps of this season here.

Ah, another week in the land of the Lyon’s. This week’s episode was entitled, ‘My Bad Parts’ but fortunately for Empire, the ratings weren’t as bad this week. According to tvbythenumbers, this week’s episode racked up about 11.6 million viewers.

Not too shabby, but we could do better.

The 11.6 million watchers did get to watch the moment we’ve all been waiting for: Cookie slapping the ever-loving hell out of Laz.

Good things, good things.

For this recap, I’ve put together the best reaction tweets to tonight’s episode following each dramatic moment. (But mostly the really hyped up Rap Battle that was ultimately, not good).

 

The Rap Battle. Hakeem and Bre-Z duked it out last night to a large crowd on a round plat form that looked similarly like that one scene in High School Music 2, between Chad and Ryan. The “freestyle” rap between the two warring rappers was too reminiscent of “I Don’t Dance.”

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There’s always a Kim Kardashian reaction pic to go with everything.

https://twitter.com/pacrackz/status/667172649894854656

It seemed to be a pretty general consensus that The Rap Battle was hilarity for all. Thousands of tweets leading up to the rap battle all proclaimed how excited everyone was to watch, but after the inevitable “mic drop” most everyone was mocking, rather than cheering.

It also led to the question of —

I understand the purpose of getting the audience involved, but just like that one time Timbaland made an appearance, I had no idea what to do. It became the one thing I focused on while Hakeem went in on Bre-Z. It triumphed the performance as a whole, unfortunately.

Also, there was the big reveal of Anika being pregnant.

https://twitter.com/asrxo/status/667163432786001921

When I said I wanted more Anika, I did not mean like this, Lee Daniels.

#LittleBooBooKitten

Classic.

 

Like previously mentioned in the beginning, we got to see Cookie slap Laz in the face. For putting his hands on Hakeem. If it wasn’t clear from the gun whipping episode and “Welcome to my streets, bitch,” Cookie doesn’t play any games. Now it’s “Don’t you ever put your hands on my son.”

There’s also the fact of that tattoo on Laz’s back, which deserves more of a slap.

One day. One day Cookie will find a man who is not the enemy.

It’s a pity though. Taraji and Adam Rodriguez have such great chemistry. I’m still hoping he turns it around, but this is Empire, for God’s sake. No one is ever good.

And then there were three. Cookie, Jamal, and Hakeem always in a never ending battle against each other, while still being there for each other. This episode, Cookie helped Jamal on his song that he then has to submit to Pepsi, for a groundbreaking deal. Of course, there was Lucious with his schemes, but for this episode, the breakthrough moment was Hakeem’s insecurity with Cookie.

It’s no secret that Cookie and Jamal were close. She fished him out of a trash can when he was young, and knew without a doubt who her son was without any hesitation. Of course, all that went to hell and has slowly risen from the ashes. Sort of.

It’s the matter of Hakeem showing just how much Cookie means to him this season, and for once, realizing this himself.

Jamal and Hakeem reconcile in this episode, and then there were three.

Again. Always.

https://twitter.com/HarlemGetsMoney/status/667173959046176768

Oh yeah, and then Hakeem won the bottle and we’re all a little confused.

But that’s pretty normal.

The episode ends with Vivica Fox popping up at the end, playing Cookie’s estranged sister, Candace. We also get Cookie’s ‘government’ name, as fans are calling it: Loretha. She arrives with bad news about their sister Carol and her family.

And then Anika’s in a blonde wig and driving the car.

Like I said. Normal.

*Tweet’s belong to owners and twitter.com

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