They truly captured the essence of early 90s from the clothes, to hair styles, to the music, to the cars, to the slang and vernacular, etc. Well done, truly. The problem with period pieces though is that the story has to be incredibly good or with a solid character or important person that the audience truly cares about, otherwise no one wants to keep seeing some back in time era just for the sake of it. As such, I'm not sure if we really need to see the details of Kanan and Jukebox upbringing since we know how they turned out and how neither of them had any redeeming qualities on the original Power. Simply, they weren't empathic characters on the original Power, so I don't care about their prequel. Kanan is responsible for the development of the worst character in TV history - Tariq - and responsible for the most loved character on Power - Ghost. Sure Tariq was going to feel some type of way about Ghost leaving the home for Angie, but what Kanan did to that boy psychologically was the direct cause of that knucklehead boy getting his sister killed and murdering his dad. So no, I don't want to see a show about Kanan! Back to this time travel... This time travel should have been an episode or two within the original Power to give background of Kanan and Jukebox. But they didn't and instead relied on some good dialogue in the original that filled in the blanks for us. So this series about Kanan early story isn't really needed. As others have said, this feels like Get Rich Die Trying the TV series and not Power. Although, I'm not bothered by 50 narrating as some of the other reviewers, it just doesnt have the Power essence. Nothing powerful, sexy, intoxicating, riveting, or any other adjective about Power Book III or II for that matter. Feels like an entirely different show, and not in a good way or the ways the audience has come to love. The acting is sold for most of the main characters. Actually better than Power Book II actors (no shade to Mary J Blige but love... acting classes please).

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