Margot Cleary-Lopez ( Toni Collette) is the mayor of Seattle who wins international notoriety after becoming the face of women bestowed with this power. Her daughter, Jos (Auli'i Cravalho), is a typical rebellious teen girl before she starts sparking, and Margot's husband, Rob (John Leguizamo), is dragged along for her political ride. The globe-spanning series follows men and women and explores how the new power – and the resulting chaos – affects their lives. John Leguizamo as Rob Lopez and Toni Collette as Margo Cleary-Lopez in "The Power." “Power” has the potential to be great, but it’s not electrifying yet. It takes Alderman’s philosophical, cerebral and disturbing book and smooths over a lot of its rougher edges to create a thriller with lots of sparks and rah-rahs for girl power. “Power” (streaming Fridays, ★★½ out of four) ambitiously asks a lot of big questions about gender and, well, power, but doesn’t provide many answers in its nine- episode first season (eight of which were made available for review). So with all this power at their literal fingertips, what changes? What doesn’t? They can win fights and throw rowdy drunks out of bars. They can shock a man who is trying to attack them, or a man who won’t give them what they want. In this series, they can shoot electricity out of their fingertips. Amazon’s “The Power,” based on the 2016 novel by Naomi Alderman, imagines what would happen in our patriarchal society if women suddenly developed an electrifying superpower.
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