![]() Turning a philosophical thought experiment into an action-adventure streaming series is a tall order, and much of the subtlety of Alderman’s storytelling is lost in translation. ![]() “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. ![]() Watch Video: Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ spinoff and more must-see spring TVĪmazon’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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