What You're Missing If You're Not Watching Empire

The music is great, but at its heart, this show is all about the drama. Relationships are constantly in flux between Lucious, Cookie, their kids, and their associates. Someone is always sleeping with someone they're not supposed to, and the relationship between the intolerant Lucious and his gay son is gripping. It's not too over-the-top, but realistic violence is depicted (such as a drive-by shooting, shown above).