![]() ![]() A soft-spoken teen to start, Jos discovers her zappy new quirk and soon finds comfort in her female classmates, who are also setting microwaves on fire. ![]() ![]() In Seattle, we meet Jos (Auli’i Cravalho), the daughter of mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez ( Toni Collette). ![]() But over the course of the first episode’s hour, we only see the start of this curious phenomenon that allows girls around the world to electrocute at will. “We never dared to imagine it a world that was built for us, where we wrote the rules.” Through fast-paced flash-forward scenes, the audience gets a taster of the thrills and destruction to come. “Every revolution begins with a spark,” an opening voiceover tells us. With a punchy script from an all-female writers’ room –including Sarah Quintrell, Raelle Tucker and Alderman herself – and characters who both inspire and feel accessible, the story is as timely as it has ever been. Six years later, and The Power has now been adapted into a big-budget thriller series for Prime Video. They were making noise about the ways that misogyny was impacting their lives, and holding perpetrators to account. The former is a moderately handsome middle-aged man who wears expensive suits and steers the show’s serious segments the latter is an improbably beautiful young woman dressed not to impress so. The defiance of women and girls was a constant part of the news cycle, from the Women’s March in Washington DC to the rise of the #MeToo movement. In 2017, Naomi Alderman’s novel about teenage girls suddenly acquiring the ability to shoot electricity from their fingers arrived right on time. ![]()
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