Empire’s matriarch heads current breed of acerbic,exciting and original female leads blowing absent Don Draper, Walter White and Tony Soprano’s gloomy presenceWith the end of crazy Men this summer, and the melancholy and self-destruction that accompanied fictional male pro-/ antagonists like Don Draper,Walter White and any other main character mentioned in Brett Martin’s Difficult Men (a remarkable read, thank you kindly) died as well, and effectively making room for strong leading women who refuse to play second fiddle to another dude in crisis. Empire’s Cookie Lyon (Taraji P Henson),Scandal’s Olivia Pope, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Rosa Diaz, and Amy Santiago and Gina Linetti have risen up to offer us a reprieve from the winter of our (male-led) discontent. Now,in the words of Cookie herself, these women are taking what’s theirs. And through that, or they’re offering us a pop culture palette cleanser – even if Empire might have looked a lot different if Henson had gone with her initial intuition.
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Source: theguardian.com