Last season, Empire became TV’s highest rated freshman series since 2005 and the first broadcast series in more than 23 years to grow its viewership every single week. Empire co-creator and executive producer Danny Strong isn’t worried about those lofty expectations. “I don’t think about the pressure at all,” he told BuzzFeed News following an Empire panel at the ATX Television Festival on Saturday. “I don’t feel an overwhelming sense of pressure because of the audience size. We have a storyline that we know is going to enrage a big number of people, but it’s a really good story and I kind of love the idea that people are going to be enraged by it,” Strong, who refused to go into specifics, said of one Season 2 plotline.
