‘Power Book II: Ghost’ Creator Courtney Kemp Talks Tonight’s Fatal Season 2 Finale, ‘Force’ Debut, Her Netflix Deal & Moving On

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about tonight’s Power Book II: Ghost Season 2 finale.“Look, there’s a lot in this show that is about family trauma and it’s about the perpetuation of family trauma,” says Power Book II: Ghost creator Courtney Kemp of the Michael Rainey Jr.

and Mary J. Blige-led series that unveiled a very deadly Season 2 finale tonight.“You see Tariq trying to end the cycle by getting his sister back to their mom,” the showrunner and Powerverse boss notes of Rainey’s character saving the Paris Morgan played Yasmine from being adopted and the Naturi Naughton portrayed Tasha. “You see Tariq trying to be a better version of himself which is really following in his father’s footsteps a different way,” Kemp adds of the now hustling Tariq and the shadow of Omari Hardwick’s deceased drug kingpin James St.

Patrick.In an extra-long “Love and War” finale tonight on Starz, the Gaberiela Uribe penned episode saw Rainey’ Tariqonce again escape the clutches of the law thanks to pivotal testimony from his well-heeled college roommate and drug business partner Brayden Weston (Gianni Paolo).

As Tariq moved to keep his sister out of the system and reunite her with the long-gone Tasha, his not-so-straight and narrow defense lawyers of Davis MacLean (Method Man) and Cooper Saxe (Shane Johnson) pulled him into their own respective webs and schemes.At the same time, Mary J’s Tejada drug cartel Queenpin Monet is playing a long game with both ends of a fiery sword with old flame Dante/Mecca (Daniel Sunjata) and her now out of prison husband Lorenzo Tejada (Berto Cohon).