![]() ![]() Creators Lee Daniels and Danny Strong weren’t responsible for the writing and directing of this episode (it was written by Ilene Chaiken and Joshua Allen and directed by music-video-director-turned-filmmaker-turned-TV-director Sanaa Hamri), so I’m starting to think not having Daniels and Strong around to inject the right amount of guilty-pleasure flamboyance and outrageousness is hurting the show. I’m coming to this conclusion from what I mostly witnessed in “The Devil Quotes Scripture,” the show’s latest (and weakest) installment. From the embarrassing story lines to the ridiculous dialogue to the scenery-munching overacting, this show has gone from being entertainingly trashy to just plain trashy. Three episodes in, everything about Empire seems just plain wrong. ![]() But when it comes to the uncomfortable parts of this show, the man-on-man action is the least of it. In his first comedy special, comedian Bill Burr once hilariously broke down how you can respect and support gay people and not be comfortable with the sight of them getting intimate. ![]() One of my boys was doing his damnedest to convince listeners that, while he has no hate in his heart for the LGBTQ community, he was uncomfortable seeing two dudes get it in on network television. A couple of nights ago, two friends of mine who host a radio show were on the air, commenting on Empire and the way it freely plays out intimacy between two men - specifically, Jamal and his boyfriend, Michael. ![]()
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