Still, the closest kin TV-wise would be “Heroes,” which also spanned the globe in charting the stories of people with superpowers, the wrinkle here being that the shared new-found ability is confined to a very specific demographic.īeginning with a glimpse of the near-future before flashing back, a voiceover by one of the teenage girls speaks of “a world where we were the ones to be feared.” Later, when girls discuss why all they might have acquired this power, one of them suggests that having been treated “like garbage” for years, “We got it because we need it.”įrom there, “The Power” unfolds on multiple fronts, with much of the focus on local mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, played by Toni Collette (completing a streaming-series hat trick in roughly the last year with “Pieces of Her” and “The Staircase”). But the series gets lost somewhere between the global implications of that and its individual stories, juggling characters and subplots in a too-slow-developing season that could use more of a spark.Īdapted from Naomi Alderman’s provocative novel, the mix of dystopia and feminism has something in common with “The Handmaid’s Tale,” only here taking the term “girl power” literally. One needn’t strain hard to find the metaphorical aspects of Amazon’s “The Power,” which imagines the terrifying scenario (to parents, anyway) of what would happen if teenage girls could suddenly shoot lightning from their fingers.
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