It’s high-concept, but still user-friendly
Putting it bluntly: season one took a few episodes to really get going. There was a lot of exposition to deal with, and some confusing aspects like sudden leaps in time (made even more confusing by the fact that Empire looks the same no matter what year it is). Season two moves much more briskly, and it follows a more conventional pathway, made necessary in part because it cuts between so many concurrent stories. “We wrestled with some of the time jumps in season one … but season two plays out very much in a linear fashion,” Goyer told io9. “There are some flashbacks, but they’re traditional flashbacks and they’re not really destabilized in terms of when the story is taking place.”
