Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sunday’sPowerseries finale.
“Live by the street, die by the street.”
The credits then roll as he shuts his dorm door…but hopefully you kept watching!
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The series ends as Angela shows a brochure for Choate to Ghost, a defining moment in their history.
COURTNEY KEMP:Yes!!
But, are we sure?
Myles Aronowitz/Starz
We are locking that in?
I mean… [long pause] Uhhhhh.
He’s dead forbook one, how is that?
The flashback scene is always how I wanted to end it.
It has to do with my obsession with Shakespeare, obviously.
I mean, that doesn’t surprise you.
I’m traditional, I’m a classical storyteller.
These classical things really have inspired us in the Shakespearean way.
Why did he feel like he had to be the one?
The reason that Kanan gives, which is thatyour mother is not going to survive.
If she pulls, then Ghost is going to kill her.
What do they say to each other, that they’re going to protect each other.
So there’s a lot ofGift of the Magi-bang out storytelling here.
It’s really that little kid, that innocent Tariq who is so rageful.
Is it hard for you to comprehend how this could happen?
I don’t understand it at all.
I don’t understand how people don’t know how this is fiction.
There’s lighting and flashbacks and costumes.
These people have other names.
His name is Michael Rainey, it’s not Tariq St. Patrick.
I don’t understand.
I honestly don’t know.
I cannot explain it.
I think Omari had a very good, realistic relationship with what it was.
He had worked so hard.
It was a very hard job being Ghost.
He worked every day in episode 10.
So it didn’t make his job any easier.
But I think he understood what we were doing.
We had never done anything like that before.
What is your relationship to the reception that your show gets?
Are you interested in what the fan reaction will be to the finale?
Then, there’s the truth, which is, I don’t think there is another ending.
I just don’t know that there is another one that would have worked.
So, in that way, I don’t know, I guess it lays as it lays.
I’m not in the results business, just spiritually I can’t be.
I leave it all on the field; any given Sunday I could win or I could lose.
I’ve worked really hard, we’ve all worked really hard.
I think the audience may never know how hard we worked on it.
I didn’t want to change the show to cap it off with a happy ending.
And I also feel like once Raina died there was no happy ending for Ghost.
It wouldn’t be true to the show, and it wouldn’t have been true for life.
You end up either dead or in jail, that’s just the reality.
And a big part of that was because of the perfect casting ofShamelessstar Ethan Cutkosky as young Tommy.
What can you say about the decision to end there?
And that has to be setting the table for a prequel spin-off, right?!
That was always how it was going to end.
And I’m glad it made you happy.
That is what it was meant to do.
Can you at least say that I maybe should stay tuned for more on that?
I can never like you, can I?
You could like me doing a Tommy in L.A. spin-off.
What do I personally have to do to make that a reality?
You don’t have to do anything, you just have to stay tuned.
Obviously, you’re keeping a lot of the spin-off details close to your chest.
We are patterning it after Marvel, where different characters come in and out of other people’s shows.
We’re trying to really do it for the fans, to give the most of what they want.
