Commentary: 'Power' created a black TV antihero. It wasn't equipped to handle the consequences
“Power,” the Starz drama about drug dealer/nightclub owner James “Ghost” St. Patrick, concludes its six-season run on Sunday, ending a massive hit that enthralled millions of fans — predominantly black — with its violent saga of betrayal, revenge and family dysfunction.
While the series’ attempt to imagine a black antihero on the model of “The Sopranos’” Tony Soprano and “Breaking Bad’s” Walter White is laudable, the image of a black man engaging in a similar criminal enterprise with so little moral ambiguity has societal and Indeed, though “Power” falls into the antihero genre, it positions Ghost and Egan as heroes for the audience to root on without going to great lengths to question that allegiance — notably sidestepping the moral compromises that might have haunted St. Patrick and his family in favor of highlighting his seductive underworld.
This might seem like a harsh comparison for a series that many of its fans regard simply as an operatic crime saga. and she conveniently doesn’t have a patrol partner, which makes her a useful device but not exactly three-dimensional. Naturi Naughton as St. Patrick’s ex-wife, Tasha, in “Power” on Starz. In one of the series’ less believable subplots, Tasha suddenly opens a daycare center and starts using it to move illegal narcotics.
Earlier this season, while he is attending prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall, a college prepratory school, he runs an operation out of his dorm room where he gets his roommate to sell drugs to other students. Tariq is confronted by another black student, Effie , who threatens to turn him in: “There are five black kids on this campus and you’re going to [ruin it] for all of us. ...
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