The Lyons are literally appropriating #BlackLivesMatter. Yes, series creator Lee Daniels folded the most fundamental, still-fought movement of the 2015 black experience via an imposter plot point. But there's nothing victorious or righteous about this scene, it's been staged by his family / staff who are in full knowledge that he is guilty as hell of the murder of Marcus "Bunkie" Williams. On last night's season premiere, we opened on a Black Lives Matter rally in support of incarcerated Empire Records patriarch Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard). Jamal has picked up the Lyon asshole geneĮmpire's very existence is inescapably political, but mostly because of its how apolitical its week-to-week dealings are. There's no more novelty in watching old money fecklessly burn cash and crush the lower classes - not that there ever was, but now it's worn out in fiction as well as reality. If the point of this subgenre is to stare unflinchingly into the dark moral abyss of capitalism, while also indulging vicariously in its thrills and pleasures, nothing is going to beat the thrills and pleasures of the Lyon family, least of all another show in which a white man in a suit is pulling the strings. You cannot make another show about devious human beings after Empire. I look forward to its cancellation in November. What I gather is that it's a show about Devious Whites, a longstanding and important TV subgenre that's been flourishing since the Hummers n' Hiltons mid-aughts. But I'm guessing that the "blood" in the title doesn't refer to a side hustle of blood drives for war-torn disaster zones. There's a poster for it at my subway stop. I mean, I don't know exactly what they do I have not seen a single second of this show. It's about some rich American people, maybe a family, involved in the oil business. There's some show called Blood and Oil premiering this weekend on some TV channel.
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