The original post: /r/television by /u/tvcneverdie on 2025-09-05 16:11:17+00:00.
At times a tragic, a warm, and quite often a terrifying character, sometimes all within the same scene… and yet the nature of the character requires utmost restraint because, after all, she’s a robot. Her monologue in last night’s episode (S3E9 “The Paths That Choose Us”) was spectacular.
Credit to the writers as well because the character has seemingly infinite layers: a spiritual being driven by functional calculations; an individual of extreme power confined by invisible chains; simultaneously a mother, a mentor, and a lover as needed by Empire.
But it’s the quiet fire inside Birn that drives, in my opinion, the best ongoing performance on television.