4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Power creator Courtney Kemp Agboh discusses Shakespearean influences and her love of New York, making the city just one of the multi-dimensional characters in her Gatsbyesque crime drama.
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0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. |
0:02.9 | Every week join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and Me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, |
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0:17.9 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:32.3 | Welcome to the treatment. |
0:34.2 | If you watch network TV, you're probably seen, oh, I don't know how to get away with murder or empire. |
0:42.0 | When it comes to cable, there tends to not be as much interesting program with black protagonists. |
0:47.4 | Stars has broken that with the show Power, which is in its second season, its creator and executive |
0:51.8 | juicy. Courtney Kemp Agu is sitting across me. I'm so happy to have you here. It's nice |
0:56.0 | to be here. And what I really like about |
0:58.1 | the show and just knowing a little bit what |
1:00.0 | you've done is really about sort of the dangers |
1:02.2 | of the evils of capitalism. |
1:05.1 | It's so funny. |
1:06.3 | I think of it as being about spiritual |
1:07.8 | struggle. It's also about that |
1:09.7 | the thing my grandmother used to say to me, but were the things |
1:12.5 | you want for you shall have them. |
1:14.5 | Yes, yes. |
1:16.0 | I definitely think that, you know, so much of my reading, so much of the philosophy behind |
1:23.4 | the show comes from a book called The Sermon on the Mount, which is by Emmett Fox. |
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