Empire, S01E09- Unto The Breach (Patreon)

Good morning, Patrons! It's a gorgeous sunny morning here in Texas (for a change) and I'm sitting here looking at this cast of people in this photo and thinking about how they are almost exclusively black, and after the tragedy this week there is something hopeful about that to me. I need some sort of ray of hope to cling to, and it's getting precious hard to find them nowadays. 

This episode was the fastest moving one yet. There's no time at all before Cookie comes storming in telling Lucious about Anika's evil plan, and then it's just this tornado of panic and betrayal for about forty minutes. Everyone is bugging out about something, and Andre is the worst of all. 

I know that maybe people don't agree, but I just wasn't a fan of how the show handles Andre's bipolar disorder. I think they were very heavy-handed from the start, and this episode it just really spun out of control into a cartoon of what happens to the mentally ill and how that's handled. I am worried about episodes coming up because I believe it will only get worse, and while it's not a main plot point of the show necessarily, it's being given enough attention to really become problematic. 

I wonder what you all think of this? Let know, I would be interested to hear. 

Thanks for listening, and have a great weekend!