'Empire' Recap: Cookie Gets the Horns

These are all questions entrepreneurs should ask themselves, especially if you want to have even a fraction of the business savvy that Cookie Lyon does. Gotta hand it to Empire, it’s constantly surprising me with how handily it disposes of potentially juicy plotlines, but in its place we got a fairly compelling PTSD subplot surrounding Hakeem’s rap-napping abuse. Let’s talk about it! Yes, Hakeem had been rap-napped and dragged blindfolded into a scary warehouse BUT FIRST: Becky’s love life. Empire is a show with priorities, and in this case, its priorities were CORRECT.