The Power Season 1 Episode 1-5
Across the world teenage girls are experiencing a strange sensation beneath their collarbones, a tingling in their hands and sudden jolts of electricity sparking from their fingertips. This new power is an agent of both liberation and destruction.
Who doesn’t want to see women and teen girls shooting little lightning bolts from their hands? Since its publication in 2016, Naomi Alderman’s bestselling book about girls obtaining electrical powers has been begging for a visual adaptation, and now here it is: The Power, which premieres March 31 on Prime Video, boasting an all-women writers’ room and a cast as sparky as the fingertips of the women in the story.
The basic premise is that teen girls all over the world discover, in the span of a few weeks, that they’ve each grown a special new organ in their bodies that gives them the power to zap people and whatever else they deem worth zapping—the way that eels do. (They really talk about eels a lot in this show, and eels deserve it, guys!) Eventually, the girls discover they can “give” the power to women by activating certain “buds” that live along their collarbones. It’s compelling to envision a world in which tables are suddenly turned on awful men who would, and do, harm women: no car keys gripped tight, no fear of nighttime walks, just a built-in taser at the ready whenever the situation calls for a little jolt. But it’s not necessarily that simple, and that’s what makes this show most rewarding to watch. It has mined the ethical depths of the issues this big change would present as well as its potential geopolitical and interpersonal upsets. The book excelled at this, but the show takes it even further, resulting in some thought-provoking world-building and giving us some mighty fun special effects along the way.
We see this event, and its fallout, through the perspective of multiple characters based in different parts of the world (but mostly the U.S.). There’s Roxy, the illegitimate daughter of a London crime boss (Eddie Marsan) trying to prove her worth to her shady family; Allie, a teen in foster care learning to use her voice; Tatiana Moskolev, a Moldovan former gymnast turned dictator’s trophy wife; and Tunde Ojo, the Nigerian journalist who is first to film the power in use and travels the world covering the story, played with charm and depth by Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso). This show has been freaking thorough in its exploration of how the power would be viewed across cultural contexts. And there are more central characters to get into. (There are a lot of characters in this show.)
Download and enjoy below
DOWNLOAD MOVIE: The Power S01E01 – A Better Future is in Your Hands
DOWNLOAD MOVIE: The Power S01E02 – The World is on Fu#king Fire
DOWNLOAD MOVIE: The Power S01E03 – A New Organ
EPISODE 4 AND 5 DROPPING SOON
