ELMIKE2K14

Cookie maybe real but it doesn't change the fact that she's a horrible person not just flawed. I can't see her as being the shows protagonist long term unless she's due for a very humbling crash and burn moment due to come in a later episode, something that happens in most soapy shows. Cookie can only act like a hoodrat for just so long until she will have to evolve and adapt to the corporate world part of empire, otherwise she will just come off as a clown . If she stays the same you have to think that either Anika comes back a stronger and colder/darker character thus making Cookie look more like the sympathetic person, or a new rival who can counter check Cookie's attitude emerges.

I agree, I can't stand either Cookie or her cousin. I'm trying to figure out how is Cookie set up to be the "hero", she's a horrible person, really the only people on this show who one can see as a possible sympathetic character is Jamal due to how his dad has treated him and even he has like his brothers a attitude of entitlement. Annika, before she tried to stoop to Cookies level was a possible sympathetic character as it seemed as though she was just doing her job and happened to get into a relationship with Lucious.