Last night’s episode of Power, “Forgot About Dre” (oh how I wish we could), was farcical beyond belief. We are all here because we’ve invested so much in this show and the lives of these characters. But Power is having the problem so many television shows have. How do we wrap up all the plots in a nice and tidy bow for a final season? Making multiple seasons of excellent television is no easy feat. Spoiler alert. You don’t.
We open with “forgot about Dre” in a safehouse. He and his daughter, Heaven (LMAO) are being prepared to be moved so Dre can testify against Alicia Jimenez. Yeah, remember her. So “Black Donovan” and his field team are setting up their locations to protect the “precious cargo.”
Could the writers have telegraphed what was going to happen any more obvious? That was the most dialogue Ty Jones (SAC Jerry Donovan) has had in his five-season run on the series. You had to know it would be an untimely end for him.
It always amazes me how highly trained federal field agents are always gunned down by criminals. Though to be fair, the agents did manage to kill each of the bad guys with a single bullet before they were killed in a spray of gunfire. Hmmm…
So Donovan managed to save Heaven’s life, even took a bullet for her. Too bad Dre thinks Donovan is a “special kind of bitch ass nigga” and kills him with a bullet to the brain. All while his daughter is in his arms watching.
Dre figures he and Heaven will walk away from a scene in which multiple federal agents died and hop a flight to wherever and disappear? LMAO. They are of course apprehended at the airport and brought back into custody, where Saxe makes it clear that Dre still has to testify against Alicia Jimenez.
The Dre storyline had moments throughout the course of the series where he was presented as a foil, the heir apparent and had interesting layers. He’s been reduced to a plot device now. Particularly as it relates to the daughter. Why keep that as part of the storyline, unless the child’s mother is going to come back into play at some point? If that is the plan (please no), why are we adding more characters? Sometimes less is more.
