Starz’s official trailer for Power Book III: Raising Kanan shows battle lines have been drawn and offers a look at Wendell Pierce as Snaps and Erika Woods as Pop. Plus, the trailer shows Italian mob boss Stefano (Tony Danza) is back in the mix.
MeKai Curtis and Patina Miller return to lead the cast of the critically acclaimed drama as Kanan Stark and Raquel “Raq” Thomas, respectively. The cast also includes Omar Epps as Detective Malcolm Howard, London Brown as Marvin Thomas, and Malcolm Mays as Lou-Lou Thomas. Hailey Kilgore plays Jukebox, Joey Bada$$ is Unique, Shanley Caswell is Detective Burke, Antonio Ortiz is Famous, and Grantham Coleman is Ronnie.
Season three premieres on December 1, 2023 at midnight ET on the Starz app and streaming platforms, and at 8pm ET/PT on Starz.
Sascha Penn executive produces and guides season three as showrunner. Power franchise creator Courtney A. Kemp is involved as an executive producer via her End of Episode production company. Additional executive producers include Chris Selak, Kevin Fox, Santa Sierra, Tash Grey, G-Unit Film and Television’s Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and Atmosphere Entertainment MM’s Mark Canton.
Starz offers this description of the new season:
“Season three picks up where we left off, in Southside Jamaica Queens with the Thomas family in turmoil and reeling from the Mob’s coordinated attack on Raquel, Marvin, and Lou-Lou. After her close call, Raquel is looking to make a fresh start, but Kanan doesn’t trust her or believe it when she says she’s done. Can she really be out of the game? As the trailer claims, the truth is a lie, and Kanan’s been burned before.
Over the last two seasons of Raising Kanan, Kanan Stark has slowly learned the truth about not only his mother, but also himself. It has been a tortuous journey for him and everyone around him. With each new revelation, Kanan has been forced to confront his family’s seemingly never-ending web of secrets and lies. He has spent much of this time in a state of denial, but now, Kanan’s blinders are finally off, and he doesn’t like what he sees.
In season three, Kanan finds himself grappling with the very notions of right and wrong. Good and evil. Fidelity and disloyalty. And he’s not alone. Every member of the Thomas family must confront an existential crisis that challenges their very identity. Whether it’s Marvin, who’s still trying to redeem himself, or Raq, who’s finally coming clean, or Lou, who’s wrestling with his own evil, or Jukebox, who’s simply trying to break free from her family’s pathology, they are all attempting to redefine and reinvent themselves. They won’t all be able to complete this intensely personal quest, but for those who do, the destination may reveal the most terrifying secret of all.
There is no right and wrong or good and evil. There are no absolutes. In the end, there’s just you.”
