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One Person Creates Long Unemployment Line

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[Blind Gossip] This network TV drama did well in the ratings for a few seasons and got an awful lot of publicity. Now it’s just a hot mess.

The cast and crew seem to have resigned themselves to the fact that it’s over.

The cast and crew are all looking for jobs. There is not a single person here who thinks we will get picked up for another season. It’s over. People are pissed because this was all so f*cking avoidable.

So a couple of hundred people will lose their jobs because of the actions of just one cast member.

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  1. Empire

    Jessie Smollett

    If found guilty, he should go to jail. He could’ve started riots and violent protests with his actions. What was he thinking?

    • Agreed. He could have been responsible for people on either side getting hurt or killed. That’s absolutely wrong and criminal. He needs some prison time, in part to deter others from attempting this again. Now, on the matter of Empire being renewed, I don’t see why Jussie’s actions should impact the show or its ratings. Those people had NOTHING to do with Smollett or his actions, so why should they be punished?

    • Would this be the reason the crew allegedly wouldn’t sign the “thinking of you” card or whatever it was. A lot of the cast has other jobs already, don’t know about the crew. Yep, totally avoidable.

  5. TV Show: Empire

    Actor: Jussie Smollett

    Optional: The media and Chicago police seem intent on making an example of him but personally I think Chicago has bigger fish to fry and the media’s focus was too bright in the first place.

  6. Empire has been ridiculous for at LEAST two seasons now. MAYBE Jussie contributed to a cancellation sooner than they wanted, but if they care about their “craft”, they will be happy to move onto bigger and better opportunities. He didn’t get the cast or crew blacklisted, just himself!

  13. Empire and Jussie Smollett’s whole mess.

    If Mo’nique is to be believed, Lee Daniels will blacklist his * seven ways from Sunday over this.

    • ITA! The on-screen morale has been visibly deteriorating for the last couple of seasons of Bull, And even before the lawsuit revelation, I wondered if the bts was toxic. I don’t think that it was a coincidence that the only contract cast member allowed to depart was Anastasia Attanasio whose father is one of the show’s EPs Paul Attanasio. Now, the ratings have started taking hits, so I can see a lot of people also being put out of their misery by having the show get canceled.

  22. Empire
    Jussie Smollet

    Hopefully, he will be held accountable for his actions on the false police report. Shame people will lose their jobs over his actions.

  23. TV Show: Empire

    Actor: Jussie Smollet
    [Optional] What do you think will happen to the actor who caused this mess?
    Plea deal…long probation, restitution and unemployment for a very long time

  36. Empire
    Jussie Smollett
    He’s going to trial and will be found guilty and maybe serve time in jail. Plus get a giant fine to pay for all that his lies cost the City of Chicago.

  39. Show: Empire
    Actor: Jussie Smollett

    What will happen: He’ll get a slap on the wrist, likely a suspended sentence. What SHOULD happen is that he should get serious jail time. He perpetrated a hate crime and hoax, filed false reports, wasted police resources, and was prepared to falsely testify against innocent people wrongly accused of a crime that never happened (until he found out the people he was ready to falsely claim assaulted him were the people he paid to fake the crime), etc.

  44. TV Show: Empire

    Actor: Jussie Smollett

    [Optional] What do you think will happen to the actor who caused this mess? I’m betting he gets some jail time.

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