Power season 5 episode 8: Is 50 Cent leaving? Series boss discusses
50 Cent is leaving Power. We’re not going to sugarcoat that fact. Near the end of tonight’s episode, the character of Kanan died following a lengthy, violent shootout with the police. Tariq sold the character out as a means to protect Tasha and the rest of the family. It wasn’t the easiest choice for him, given his recent bond with Kanan, but it’s one rooted years in the past.
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As executive producer Courtney A. Kemp noted in her weekly video postmortem after the episode, Kanan’s death can be linked back to when he made the choice to kill Shawn — one of the things that always would separate him from Ghost’s son:
“Because Kanan is a character on the show but is also a creation of 50 [Cent] and myself, we made him so we can decide how [what happens] played out. This is an inevitable series of events that all gets started when Kanan kills Shawn. Everything follows that moment because that is the first pain [in] Tariq’s life that tracks back and couldn’t be fixed.”
“Over the course of the season, Tariq has gone from a kid who doesn’t understand anything to someone who does understand. He has to figure out what defines him and his role within his family system. This mess is Tariq’s mess. He caused it, and he in some ways is the only one who can clean it up. Tariq doesn’t really have a lot of choices. He has to figure out what kind of man he [wants] to be. It doesn’t mean that this is the choice he wants to make. It’s the choice he has to make.”
Kemp also discussed more of the uncertainty that went into some of the final moments with the Kanan character on the series:
“Did we know that Kanan was going to die? No, and we shot it two [different] ways. We thought maybe he would just get injured and survive, but at the end of the day this felt like the more powerful choice. It was hard not to see how this was going to all come together in this way. Kanan believes in Tariq, and even when Tariq betrays him, Kanan chooses not to kill him. He chooses to live Tariq live with the consequences of his actions, knowing that he betrayed a real one.
“Tariq had the last move. The whole time Kanan is teaching Tariq to play chess, He [doesn’t understand that] the student has now become the teacher. That’s another step towards the person Tariq will become … This is a defining moment for him.”
Even though 50 Cent may not longer be playing Kanan on Power, we doubt he’s going anywhere behind the scenes. He is an executive producer on the series. It’s still hard to rule out him coming back on the show in some capacity.
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