Empire completed its six-season run on Tuesday, April 21, with a very disappointing series finale. The musical drama series abruptly ended with no proper conclusion for any of the characters, including Cookie and Lucious. And Showrunner Brett Mahoney recently shared details about the team's initial plans to end the show.

The last season of this FOX drama was initially planned for 20 episodes, but the production team was unable to complete the filming and post-production works of last two episodes due to coronavirus-related work shutdown. So, the network had to cut out the last episodes and make episode 18 the series finale. And, the production team had to re-work on that episode to give a proper conclusion to the story.