Teenage girls electrify in sci-fi shocker ‘The Power’

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Prime Video’s new series “The Power” posits a world in which young women around the globe, in an inexplicable twist of nature, suddenly develop the ability to electrocute people at will — flipping society, and the patriarchy, on its head (“A world built for us, where we’re not afraid” says a protagonist).

The eight-part series, cloaked in sci-fi, takes a while to charge into high gear, but once it gets going is rife with social commentary that resonates in today’s culture.“The Power” is based on Naomi Alderman’s eponymous 2016 novel and features an ensemble cast of younger, nuanced actors working alongside A-listers Toni Collette, John Leguizamo and Josh Charles.

Together, they form an exciting core that keeps the action moving at a brisk pace.The series begins six months earlier, when teen girls Allie (Halle Bush), Roxy (Ria Zmitrowicz) and Jos (Auli’i Cravalho) start to experience the first inklings of their newfound electrical powers.

Allie, who’s living in the South with strict, creepy foster parents, hears a woman’s voice in her head assuring her everything is happening for a reason and that it’s time to take destiny in her own hands — which she does, literally, by frying her sexually abusive foster dad to death.In London, Roxy lives a threadbare existence with her loving mother but craves the emotional support of her father, wealthy English businessman Bernie Monke (Eddie Marsan), who lavishes all his attention (and money) on his second family.