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While The Power is tackling a complex topic with many implications to consider, season 1 fails to address the important problem of Matty Cleary-Lopez’s (Gerrison Machado) radicalization. The difficulty with a show like The Power is that it must explore hard social topics like justice, misogyny, empowerment, oppression, and societal backlash all while telling a convincing story with strong, believable characters that also have their own compelling arcs. This is a tall order where every character must pull double duty in their own story while also depicting social elements during this political shift. This means that each character has to be treated with care, and unfortunately, The Power misses a critical element that would have been fascinating to explore.

The Power explores an alternate history regarding what would happen if women gained the ability to release electrical charges from their hands. The series tells this story through the lens of...

This The Power review contains no spoilers.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely etc. etc., but not (yet) in Prime Video‘s excellent adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s 2016 best selling work of speculative fiction. The novel, developed with help from a mentorship with Margaret Atwood, imagines what would happen if teenage girls suddenly developed the ability to produce electrical charges through their fingers.

The series takes this premise, updates it slightly for a 2023 audience and creates a show that feels complex, nuanced, emotional, and, yes, electric. This is not a simplistic girls against boys diatribe. It’s not a diatribe at all, but a fascinating thought experiment translated into colorful, dynamic TV, with a banging sound track and an impressive ensemble cast.

With an all-female writers room, the show was developed by Alderman, Raelle Tucker and Sarah Quintrell, with Tucker as the showrunner. They’ve created a powerhouse.

At the...

Amazon’s The Power does not want for ambition. Like the Naomi Alderman novel it’s based on, it’s set in a world transformed by a quirk of biology that suddenly gifts teenage girls the ability to generate electric jolts from their fingertips — and like the Alderman novel, it attempts a forest-and-the-trees approach to the premise. Its narrative encompasses half a dozen leads spread out over three or four continents, and includes plotlines as intimate as a teenage romance and as sweeping as national political movements.

But if the broadness of its scope is intriguing, the broadness of its storytelling sometimes comes as a disappointment. Particularly in the first half of the nine-episode season (of which critics screened the first eight hourlong chapters), The Power too often relies on archetypes over complex characterizations, and talking points over nuanced conversations — though by the final installments, it does manage to generate...

Plot: The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.

Review: The Power is a series I fully expect will rankle a vocal minority online who will complain about this being a series that castrates masculinity and promotes extreme points of view. Those people clearly need to watch this series for that very reason. The Power is a cautionary tale that has a global scale. Looking at the impact of a shift in the male-female dynamic offers a unique look at how we treat gender as a society and how it differs across the planet. Abiding by...

It is Richey’s sophomore feature, following on from 2019’s ’Low Low’.

US filmmaker Nick Richey’s coming-of-age story 1-800-Hot-Nite has been acquired for international sales by Australia’s Odin’s Eye Entertainment.

It is Richey’s sophomore feature, following on from 2019’s Low Low.

When a 13-year-old boy loses his parents in a drug raid, he turns to a phone sex operator for help, as he embarks on a mission to escape foster care alongside his best friends. Dallas Dupree Young, Mylen Bradford, Gerrison Machado and Ali Richey star.

The feature is a Halfway Crooks Entertainment production in association with Lexicon Entertainment,...

Screen Rant is pleased to present an exclusive clip from the upcoming adventure comedy 1-800-hot-nite which arrives in theaters as well as on digital platforms and On Demand on November 4. Circulating festivals since its successful premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the new coming-of-age story centers on the teenaged Tommy who finds a fairy godmother in the form of a phone sex operator after losing his parents to a drug raid.

1-800-hot-nite sees Young joined by Gerrison Machado and Mylen Bradford, who portray his best friends O'Neill and Steve. Together, they concoct a plan to escape the foster care system and embark on a youthful adventure. Other cast members include Ali Richey as Ava, DaJuan Johnson as Russ, Nicole Steinwedell as Jenny, Kimleigh Smith as Patty, and Brent Bailey as Officer Riden. The film was written and directed by Nick Richer, who has already made waves...

Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to Nick Richey’s sophomore feature 1-800-hot-nite, slating it for release November 4.

The coming-of-age drama written and directed by Richey centers on Tommy (Dallas Dupree Young), whose world is turned upside down from the moment police break down his door and arrest his father. Faced with a parentless future, Tommy escapes child protective services’ custody with his best friends Steve (Mylen Bradford) and O’Neill (Gerrison Machado) into the L.A. streets—packed with men trying to rob them, cops chasing them, a python, a fist fight, a first kiss and phone sex. Throughout it all, Tommy keeps calling an 800 number, as he feels the woman on the line (Ali Richey) is the only adult he can confide in. By the end of the night, the boys’ brotherhood breaks down as they cross the threshold into adulthood.

The adventure pic had...

Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe”) and Alice Eve (“Belgravia”) have joined the cast of Amazon Studios’ upcoming drama thriller “The Power” as recurring guest stars.

Edwina Findley (“Treme”), Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and Simbi Ajikawo (“Top Boy”) also feature in the cast as recurring guest stars alongside series regulars Zrinka Cvitešić (“London Spy”), Archie Rush (“Black Mirror”) and Gerrison Machado (“Prank”) and Pietra Castro (“Jingle Bell Bride”).

Previously announced cast members include Leslie Mann, Auli’i Cravalho, Tim Robbins, John Leguizamo, Eddie Marsan and Daniela Vega.

“The Power,” is a 10-part series based on Naomi Alderman’s international bestselling novel of the same name, produced by Sister for Amazon Studios, with Emmy Award-winning executive producer and director Reed Morano (“The Handmaid’s Tale”).

In the series, teenage girls around the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. The power is hereditary, inbuilt and can’t be taken away from them. The...

Rob Delaney, Alice Eve and Edwina Findley are the latest stars set to join the cast of Amazon Prime Video’s The Power. The 10-part global thriller based on Naomi Alderman’s bestselling novel of the same name, comes from Chernobyl producer Sister and Emmy-winning The Handmaids Tale director Reed Morano.

In The Power all teenage girls in the world suddenly develop the power to electrocute people at will. It’s hereditary, it’s inbuilt, and it can’t be taken away from them. The Power follows a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Moldova, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.

Delaney, Eve and Findley will recur as Tom, Kristen and Helen, respectively. The newly added stars will act opposite Tim Robbins, Leslie Mann, John Leguizamo, Eddie Marson, Daniela Vega and Auli’i Cravalho.