Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Seasons 1–5)

Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021) is a Starz crime drama — watch it online on iFILM. South Jamaica, Queens, 1991. Kanan Stark is sixteen years old, and his mother Raquel runs one of the most reliable drug operations in the borough. He has grown up watching her, and what he feels is not quite admiration and not quite fear — it is the pull of something he was born next to and has never questioned.

The series is a prequel to Power, built around the question of how the franchise's most dangerous character became who he is. Mekai Curtis plays Kanan with the right combination of eagerness and damage, and Patina Miller as his mother is genuinely the center of the show — a woman who loves her son and is also the reason he has no clean path out. Omar Epps rounds out the leads as a detective who knows this world from the inside.

The production leans into the period without making it a costume piece. The music, the streets, the economics of the early nineties all feel specific rather than decorative, and the writing gives the supporting cast enough room to matter. Stream all seasons of Raising Kanan online on iFILM.