The Power

The Power is an American-British science fiction drama television series developed by Raelle Tucker, Naomi Alderman, Claire Wilson, and Sarah Quintrell for Amazon Prime Video, based on Alderman's 2016 novel The Power. The first season consists of nine episodes and premiered on 31 March 2023 and concluded on 12 May 2023. Premise The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. It's hereditary, it's inbuilt, and it can't be taken away from them. Coming alive to the thrill of pure power: the ability to hurt or even kill by releasing electrical jolts from their fingertips, they rapidly learn they can awaken the Power in older women. Soon enough nearly every woman in the world can do it. And then everything is different. Cast and characters Main Toni Collette as Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, the mayor of Seattle and a mother of three including Jos Auliʻi Cravalho as Jos Cleary-Lopez, Margot's daughter John Leguizamo as Dr. Rob Lopez, Margot's husband Toheeb Jimoh as Tunde, an aspiring video journalist from Nigeria with big dreams Ria Zmitrowicz as Roxy Monke, the illegitimate daughter of British gangster Bernie Monke Halle Bush as Allie/Eve, an adoptee into an American Bible Belt couple Nico Hiraga as Ryan, Jos's boyfriend Heather Agyepong as Ndudi, Tunde's close friend Daniela Vega as Sister Maria, a Nun from the Sisters of Christ convent that took in Allie Eddie Marsan as Bernie Monke, a feared London crime boss Archie Rush as Darrell Monke, Bernie's youngest son & Roxy’s half brother Gerrison Machado as Matt Cleary-Lopez, Margot's son Pietra Castro as Izzy Cleary-Lopez, Margot's youngest daughter Zrinka Cvitešić as Tatiana Moskalev, the wife of the Moldovan president, Viktor Moskalev