According to showrunner Brett Mahoney, the remainder of Season 5 will firmly remain in the current-day timeline as it nears the reveal of its big funeral mystery.
Visions of the future have also added a layer of doom-laden immediacy to the storyline, but that’s all changing in the back half of the season.
For Empire’s dysfunctional Lyon family, Season 5 has been as hectic and chaotic as any that have come before it, thanks to everything happening with Empire Entertainment and its new CEO Kingsley.