No one man should have all that power…
Starz hit television drama features enough murder and trapping by the likes of Ghost and the male cast to keep the testosterone driven fans enthralled but the female actress are the crux of Power’s chef d’oveur status. Tasha and Angela have battled for queen bitch over 3 seasons with the less notable Keisha embodying burgeoning covetousness that runs parallel to the shows progression. With Ghost behind bars the three of them have projected themselves to the forefront of the story line and fans attention.
Who knew the Lil Kim that fucked gravy when he was pretending to Big would one day graduate to James St Patrick’s wife avoiding the botch surgeries to become a mother of two and housewife. Season 3 is Naturi Naughton transmuting Tasha into Auset taking on the audacious task of finding Ghost 14th piece while a neglected Tariq goes on his lean induced Heru-ic journey revisiting his parents’ set. Tasha is still on throne but the palace is empty and under attack. With so many reasons to abandon home Tasha refuses but is often slighted by the actions of the two most important men in her life. It seems as if she’s removed the term ”I” from the psychology., allowing her sense of self to become indistinguishable from the well being of her family. And what does she often get for that shit… side bitches showing up the home, fake friends, and prison calls but her foundation is the “ride or die bitch” mentality and more than Ghost she’s married to the lifestyle and all that comes with it and of course there no fairy tale ending for the wife of a hustler.
Angela resides on the other in of life than Tasha, she’s law abiding (and law enforcement) citizen, with no admitted desire for street shit. She the conqueror of Ghost frontal cortex, allowing him to abandon familiar territory in favor of some childhood what if shit. She’s lust, that deep-rooted desire that develops within the adolescent mind of young man observing his neighborhood crush. The thing about old love is its sort of like a book you’ve already read, the damn ending never changes and no matter how much ghost tries we all know how the story ends and its never with Angela. Yet his inclination to chase what’s fleeting makes Ang that much more desirable, as if he’s the only that can’t see that her preoccupation is self. Angela has the ability to draw the men she attracts into the waters of Qandisa. Greg’s obsession and her being Ghost Achilles heel is evident that her current is strong. Yet just as water she’s forever changing, remaining fluid, adapting to her environment to survive; so when she loves Ghost its fuck work, and when Ghost becomes a suspect she hardens to ice becoming cold toward all appeals.
Keisha portrayed by Lala Anthony is back from what viewer’s believed to be death but was only refuge supervised Tommy. Since her introduction Keisha has played the presumed role of Invidia always desiring more than what’s in just out arms reach. That desire has teeter on jealousy and hinted at since Power’s inception yet it wasn’t until Tommy became the night in shining armor that she allowed dick to remove her viel of concerned friend to reveal envy. In retrospect her little spiteful rant aimed at Angela in the interrogation room was just a hating bitch mad at the woman who was able snatch the crown despite Keisha always standing within eyesight of the top. She seems currently mesmerized and over possessive of Tommy which one might attribute to sex but its more to do with the fact that He’s the defacto boss and presumably all her’s. His sleeping over at Tasha’s has exposed her selfish yearning for the throne as she has heart set on toppling her friend’s position. It’s said that Invidi s present when “justice is offended” with the murder of her former man and Ghost in jail for a crime he didn’t commit its clear Lala’s character is trapped within the mythology. Between the turmoil on screen and in her personal life expect Lala’s Keisha to meet her inedible fate most likely enacted by the white boy she’s currently fucking. Somewhere Kanaan the lose cannon is dancing to the tune of his cousin Jukebox channeling her Oya qualities to birth himself back into heights he often recollects. Yet the Power of the divine feminine is ever present in the show by way of creator Courtney Kemp Agboh who lifts the skirt of Aphrodite after to each show to allow the viewers a behind the scenes look. As emotion and business continue to mix near mid season it should be interesting to see how the women of Power determine the coming climacteric’s.
-Matthew Carroll