Power Season 6 Episode 3 ( STARZ ) 'Forgot About Dre'
“The final scene of the show is definitely the final scene that I always envisioned,” Power executive producer Courtney Kemp says as the sixth and final season of the Starz drama kicked off tonight with a very big death.
After five seasons shuttling between both sides of the law in her love affair with James “Ghost” St. Patrick, Angela Valdes, played by Lela Loren, finally took a literal bullet for her old flame – a bullet from Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) meant for the Omari Hardwick-portrayed drug lord looking to make it in the legit world.
That shot at the end of Season 5 saw the once highflying federal prosecutor in the emergency ward and, soon after tonight’s David Rodriguez-directed “Murderers” episode started, on a slab in the coroner’s office.
This being the Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson EP’d Power, that led to more shootings, plans for revenge from Ghost on his once best friend Tommy , and his own deeply resentful son Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr). The season premiere, which actually dropped on the Starz app hours before, also saw a declaration of divorce from Tasha St. Patrick (Naturi Naughton), a search-and-destroy mission from a newly topped U.S. Attorney’s office, and new role for LaKeisha Grant (La La Anthony) in Tommy’s professional and personal life as things seemed destined to spiral toward way more body bags before this super-sized final season is over next year.
Or, as Tasha told Tommy: “You took a shot at the Devil and missed!”
Coming off an August 20 Madison Square Garden preview of the season opener that she co-penned, Power creator Kemp chatted with me to go behind the scenes on the season opener and what’s to come and the planned spinoffs for the series. The former Good Fight scribe also spoke of the world and work beyond Power and her current run for the Writer’s Guild of America board because of the looming crisis she sees for Hollywood.
