The Lyon family will continue to scrabble for both familial and musical harmony in "Empire" season 2. As it banishes Lucious from his world of glitz, glamor and hip hop and puts him directly into prison, the full-on musical warfare catapults to new heights.
Series executive producer Danny Strong summed up in two powerful words what the highly-anticipated sophomore run of the massive musical series will be all about: "warring kingdoms," and that says it all.
Strong remains unfazed of the fans' pressing expectations of "Empire" season 2. Before he lets anything else get into him, chances are the "Empire" showrunner already placed a much bigger pressure on himself, routing it into something that will help other than pull down.
"I find making the story work so difficult and no one wants it to be as good as I do," Strong told Deadline. "So the pressure I put on myself usually exceeds any pressure I feel about anything — so it's more of the same to be honest."
This, it seems, is what's helping him to go about the big task of creatively and outstandingly tying up his heavy, two-word premise with what transpired in the freshman season, which he described was inclined to answering the question of "who will inherit the throne."
"I definitely don't feel the pressure to make it more amazing or to make it better or bigger or anything like that. I think that in season one we succeeded in telling our story and that it worked, and so it's just a matter of continuing the story and making the story work," he went on to say.
"Empire" season 2 will see the hip-hop magnate incarcerated but Carter Matt says that Lucious won't be entirely powerless.The site says that the record industry kingpin will still have things under his control. The new season premieres on Sept. 23.
