Welcome to the Weekend Binge. Every Friday, we’ll suggest a binge-able title designed to keep you from getting too stir crazy.
Check back throughout the weekend for even more gloriously queer entertainment.Collective eyebrows in Hollywood raised back in 2015 when Lee Daniels, director of the indie hits Precious and The Butler announced he would create a hip-hop musical soap opera for the Fox network.
Exactly, how would that work? Would an audience actually watch?Thankfully, Daniels has always taken wild risks with his work, and had a great eye for casting.
Empire stars Oscar nominee Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, a former drug dealer turned record mogul, presiding over his own successful hip-hop label, Empire Records.