Sascha Penn talks writing, producing, and creating and PowerBook III: Raising Kanan

Porsha Monique sat down with Sascha Penn, the Executive Producer, creator, Showrunner/writer PowerBook lll: Raising Kanan, to find out what to expect for the upcoming series! #TapIn to hear what he had to say about the summer's newest TV addiction!Show more

Powerbook lll: Raising Kanan is set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, Raising Kanan is a prequel to the original Power franchise. It is a sprawling family drama that revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark; Ghost and Tommy’s mentor, partner and adversary, who ultimately dies in a hail of gunfire in the eighth episode of Power’s penultimate season.

When we catch up with Kanan here, though, he is the fifteen-year-old only child of Raquel “Raq” Thomas, a cocaine distributor with an emerging network of dealers across the city. Much like the original Power, Raising Kanan explores themes of identity, violence, and legacy, but it is also a deep dive into the very pathology of family; the unique, complicated and fraught dynamic between parent and child, mother and father, brother and sister.