(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Season 5 premiere of “Empire.”)
The Season 4 finale of “Empire” left the fate of a handful of characters up in the air for the summer hiatus. Luckily, fans didn’t have to wait too long to find out who had perished and who survived, as the fifth season premiere gave up all those answers almost immediately.
And TheWrap got even more from “Empire” co-creator Danny Strong, when we spoke to him last month during the Television Critics Association press tour about the Fox series’ serious drama.
Of course tonight “Empire” introduced a whole new death mystery, with Lucious (Terrence Howard) standing over a coffin, six months from the present day (which is now 2 years in the future from last spring’s finale, after a time skip we’ve moved into for Season 5.