lucious lyon had als on empire.
lucious lyon had als on empire.
what disease does lucious lyon have on empire?
als
when lucious is diagnosed with als in the pilot, he starts to realize that he was not a great parent because he was so focused on "making the money." howard said, "i'm approaching it from that place of missed time and trying desperately" to make use of the time he has left. while howard does not have personal experience with the disease, he focused in on the "fear" that comes with such a disease. "there is a fear of what's about to happen" howard said. the character's longevity immediately comes into question due to the diagnosis. however, danny strong refused to comment on how the disease would affect lucious in future seasons. strong danced around answering the question about the fatality of lucious' diagnosis and said viewers would have to wait and see how the disease would affect lucious. though the doctor gives lucious three years, and maybe even less time, "bustle" estimated lucious would be killed off around the end of season 3. however, the magazine noted that while the disease is incurable, stephen hawking who was diagnosed at the age of 21 was now 73 years old. lucious starts showing symptoms much earlier than the doctor predicts which makes it seems like his life expectancy could be shorter. however, "bustle" argued against the potential of the character's death sooner rather than later because howard is the lead of the show. dr. aletha maybank said "even though shows like empire are filled with climatic levels of drama, it has elevated the conversation around a disease that has historically been showed behind the curtain by thrusting it into the lights of primetime." ilene chaiken discussed having lucious come clean about his condition sooner rather than keeping the secret until the following season. in the season one finale, lucious discovers that he doesn't have als; rather, he has the treatable but still debilitating myasthenia gravis. brian moylan of "the guardian" found lucious' misdiagnosis to be a mistake on the part of the writers and creators, saying that it made the plot of the show "meaningless." he went on to say that the als diagnosis was a "brave" decision that the writers "snatched away." he claimed that the misdiagnosis "shows the audience that the bold choices this show makes have no real consequences. when they can find an easy way to brush off a serious disease such as als, what else will be swatted away when it becomes inconvenient to the writers? is andre’s bipolar disorder going to be cured too?" however, co-creator danny strong revealed to "the hollywood reporter" that he had always intended for lucious to have been misdiagnosed with als: "lucious being misdiagnosed was in my original pitch. lee and i pitched the show to four different networks, and it was always in the pitch that he was going to think he had als, but toward the end of the first season, he’s going to find out he was misdiagnosed. i’ve heard a few stories about that; my ex-girlfriend’s father was misdiagnosed with als, but also my grandfather had an autoimmune disease that crippled him but then it just reversed itself." strong stated that the misdiagnosis was believable because "als is...a very hard disease to diagnose."
lucious lyon
lucious has received comparisons to other tv antiheroes such as tony soprano, walter white, omar little, and don draper. scott mendelson of "forbes" said of the character, "like the classic television anti-heroes of tv’s so-called "golden age," mr. lyon operates as both the show’s would-be hero and its most obvious villain. the character of lucious lyon arguably offers one of the first non-white variations on the now-standard television anti-hero." lucious has been criticized for being a bad ceo and an even worse father. zack o'malley greenburg said that lucious' "intolerance" and "deep prejudice" inhibit him from making good decisions for the betterment of his company. keertana sastry of bustle referred to lucious as "a terrible boss" and "a terrible father," and thought that cookie and anika would be better suited to the ceo position. craig d. lindsey agreed, saying that lucious is "a terrible father, a horrible businessman, and just a despicable, downright sociopathic person." hettie williams of "the huffington post" stated that lucious is a "black caricature" who perpetuated the stereotype of the "black brute." she continued, "lucious is a brute to his family in that he harshly places his young son jamal into a trash can for his effeminate ways (jamal tries on a dress in his youth) to teach him a lesson about how to "man-up;" refuses to attend a therapy session with his son dre; and apparently...sleeps with his own daughter-in-law." however, arienne thompson disagreed, and found lucious interesting as a "love-to-hate" character who embodied the best and worst qualities of all of tv's past anti-heroes and villains.
lucious lyon