Power Season 6: Did the Actual Drug Dealers Leave the Writers' Room?
After suffering through the long-awaited and highly disappointing final season of Game of Thrones, I honestly did not think there was a show that could completely blow the ending to their series. Clearly, I didn't know that Courtney Kemp was waiting in the wings saying "hold my beer." The final season of Power is just plain awful. The writing is awful, the acting has gotten more awful, and the story line is the most awful thing of all. I can't believe that I waited 6 seasons for this. Tariq getting beat in the stomach with a bag of oranges from Whole Foods is the best thing to happen all season, and this includes the death of Angela.
Dear God, I’m so sick of their fake ass Bonita & Clyde asses. Photo courtesy of Showtime
I truly am concerned about this supposed spin-off that features the Queen of Thigh-High Boots and Crispy Chicken herself, Mary J. Blige. If this is an indicator of what we can expect, please return to sender. It’s obvious that all of the real drug dealers left the writers' room with 50 Cent. Power has gone from a gritty street show with a completely believable story line to a Fast and Furious-like adaption of an Urban Romance novel. You can't take anything serious! If you don't believe me, let's go through a list of some of the dumbest and most inexplicable shit to happen this season. (SPOILER ALERT):
Tariq is still alive.
Ghost told Tasha, “the love of my life is dead,” with a straight face. And she didn’t knock his block off.
Tasha paid for the funeral of the woman who broke up her entire marriage and basically ruined her life.
Paz called Tasha everything but a child of God and basically swore a blood oath on the St Patrick family, but she still accepted payment for her sister’s funeral.
No one, and I mean absolutely NO ONE, heard Tommy using that sub-machine gun to kill Proctor in Ghost's apartment.
Jason sacrificed his own lieutenant, in an effort to show Tommy that Ghost is gunning for him (literally).
This Brooklyn police officer is up everyone’s ass but somehow she’s managed to miss every single illegal thing that Saks is doing.
Tariq really thought that he was going to get away with giving Tylenol PM to the fucking mob.
Tasha has been running around the entire state of New York trying to find Terry Silver aka the love of her life, but she almost bust it open a random ass man in Doctor’s McStuffin’s waiting room.
None of the Feds checked the bathroom or in the stalls before allowing Alicia Jimenez to go in. Seriously, the whole "legs on the wall" trick really worked.
Lala's ass (literally) and her horrible acting.
Tommy wiped down the gun to give it to Keisha, who proceeded to leave her fingerprints all over it before tossing it into the Hudson like a coin in the Trevi Fountain. (How much you wanna bet it's going to pop up before the end of the season?)
At least three characters have brought up Holly in the past two episodes. WE GET IT! Holly and Keisha are going in the same grave like Ebony and Ivory.
Everybody and their damn mama is following Ghost on these streets, and he somehow doesn't know it.
Tasha has spoken repeatedly about how she wants better for Tariq, and now she’s decided to teach him how to slang dope.
I could sincerely go on and on and on and on, no Erykah Badu. These are just SOME of the things that's been bothering me since the season premiere. I didn't even mention Tommy putting on "Crossroads" so he could attempt to smoke Kanaan's ashes or that incredible Italian Job-esque robbery that happened during that political event at Truth or Jason's decision to put Tommy and Ghost into a mutually assured destruction drug dealing ass relationship. And you seriously expect me to believe that the cartel isn't coming for nobody's ass after killing Alicia?!
There's only so much belief I can suspend in a show, and Power has reached my limit. I'm not even watching live anymore, and I don't care if somebody spoils it. In my opinion, the only thing that can redeem this season is if they kill Tariq. I mean it. I have never hated a child character more since Joffrey JackAss Baratheorn. If they give me a Season 1 Westeros worthy murder of Tariq St. Patrick, I will update this article and take back everything I ever said. I will gladly eat crow. Until then, I guess I'll suffer through a series ending just as horrible as "Lost".
Justice for Deleterious Silver, who didn’t do anything that any regular ole’ fuckboy with a graduate degree wouldn’t do. Photo courtesy of Showtime
