Power book III: Raising Kanan. The complete first season

Author

Sascha Penn

Call Number

• DVD TV SERIES (CEN)

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Patina Miller, London Brown, Malcolm Mays, Joey Bada$$, Shanley Caswell, Hailey Kilgore, Toby Sandeman, Lovie Simone, Omar Epps, Mekai Curtis.

Publication Information

Santa Monica, CA : Lions Gate Entertainment, [2022]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (approximately 554 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Set in Southside Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, RAISING KANAN is a prequel to the original POWER franchise. It is a sprawling family drama that revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark--Ghost and Tommy's mentor, partner, and adversary. When we catch up with Kanan here, he is the fifteen-year-old only child of Raquel "Raq" thomas, a cocaine distributor with an emerging network of dealers across the city. Much like the original POWER, RAISING KANAN explores themes of identity, violence, and legacy, but it is also a deep dive into the very pathology of family--the unique, complicated, and fraught dynamic between parent and child, mother and father, brother and sister--that offers both a refuge from the divisiveness and discord of an increasingly fractitious world--and opportunities for the ones who are closest to us to betray us and our values."--Container.

Notes

Based on "Power" created by Courtney A. Kemp.

Originally broadcast as individual episodes on Starz in 2021.