Created by: Courtney Kemp Agboh.
Starring: Omari Hardwick, Joe Sikora, Naturi Naughton, Lela Loren, 50 Cent.


Power is the television show based on the lives on New Yorks biggest drug dealers who also happen to be club owners. We follow them through their love lives, murders and 'business' deals.

I first became aware of this show when 50 cent was going through his 'bankruptcy' and it was mentioned that he works on this show. 50 cent has always been a love of mine, so much so that I used to date a guy that looked him back in my college days, so any show with him in is one I had to watch.

Power is so gripping. Imagine Breaking Bad meeting Empire and it's something like that. I love that there are starting to be more shows with black casts and that this show was also created by a women, which is even more important, especially given it's mobster theme.

The story-lines in this show are pretty typical but there is still some kind of twist put on it and it's performed to a whole different level. The cinematography, the acting and the modernity of this show makes it unlike any other mobster show/film. Usually, when black people and drugs are put together in a story, you get a lot of 'hoodrats' and 'the ghetto' but Power doesn't work like that. It shows the rich man at the head of the drug trade, who is smart, doesn't drink, family orientated, a businessman and overall the opposite of what you are made to expect.


I do at times find the characters very annoying. But in the way where you want the best for them and they're just not helping themselves. In that way, Power is very real, it shows the real emotions and actions people do not the ideal ones that films create. The cast as a whole are all very enjoyable to watch, expect for one of the main characters Angie (Lela Loren) who plays the main characters mistress, her whole everything irks me and I can't wait for to be gone (if she ever will).

Another great point of the programme, at least to me, is the soundtrack. They feature a lot of hip-hop artists including 50 Cent himself who I believe does the theme tune and Drake also. For someone who is into these kind of artists and music, it just makes the show much more enjoyable and even a little bit more relatable in a way.

Overall, Power is a very addictive programme with a different, more modern perspective on the drug trade. If the crime genre is one you like, then Power is definitely a show you should watch.