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The Treatment

Courtney A. Kemp: "Power’’

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

"Power" creator Courtney A. Kemp discusses plot twists in season 6 of the hit series.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.6

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Join me in the office offices of the creator and executive producer of Power on Stars.

0:23.7

Courtney Kemp was back for the second time.

0:25.9

This fifth season, the show is winding down.

0:27.5

First of all, thanks for making time here at your office to do this.

0:30.7

Thank you so much for coming to my office.

0:32.8

I appreciate it, and it's always good to see you.

0:34.8

It was great to see you, too.

0:36.3

And we're now, as I said, the fifth season, winding down, one of the things I want to see you. It was great to see you too. And we're now, as I said,

0:39.3

the fifth season winding down. One of the things I want to bring up is that you tend to save

0:43.1

the big events that would usually be season enders for other executive producers for like a couple

0:50.4

episodes before the end. Sure. Yeah. So we get to see the fallout from the event rather than having to wait months.

0:57.0

I wonder where that impulse comes from for you.

0:58.9

Well, okay.

0:59.5

So first of all, I'm a rebel by nature.

1:01.3

I mean, I guess you can probably tell that, right?

1:03.3

But also because the first season of the show had eight episodes, so we told an eight episode story. So every season after that, I thought it was cool to kind of structure

1:12.1

the show so that episode eight was really the season finale and that the next two episodes,

1:16.9

episode nine and ten, pushed the story forward past the point of where the season would

1:22.4

normally end. So this season, for example, and if you haven't watched the episode too bad, but the

1:28.5

idea is the story of Tariq being in danger for having killed Ray Ray is over at the end of

1:36.0

episode eight. That's all tied up, but there are, there's still more to go because the

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