Have you begun planning season two yet? No, we haven't started at all. I felt like it was really special and there was something real happening here. I really believed in it even before I became involved, when I saw the pilot. We hoped the show would find an audience. I don't think anyone would dare to expect this kind of success. When you first aired the pilot, did you expect to a certain degree this kind of success? We certainly didn't expect it. I've always tried not to pay much attention to those numbers, but with this kind of success it would be disingenuous to claim you weren't noticing it. It's one measure of success in our business that we're pretty focused on.
Check out our full Q&A below!Į! News: Congratulations on finishing your first season with a bang! Those ratings were bananas. It's also probably going to turn into a scenario where getting something on Sweeney exposes the Weston's and, in turn, just pushes Brayden further away.E! News couldn't wait for the long hiatus before season two premieres, so we got executive producer Ilene Chaiken on the line to get the skinny on everything that's coming up on our newest obsession. My money is on Tariq struggling to get something on Sweeney. Tariq and Tate's arrangement will blow up eventually, and it's going to be glorious. And with only ten episodes a season to work with, there isn't much time for floundering, and there's no floundering to be found here. Perhaps this wasn't the wildest installment, but it was quietly effective in moving virtually every interesting storyline forward somehow. Getting her out from under Tariq and Monet will do wonders for her character. She finds a way to see Davis and Saxe, and she's still on Cane's behind.
The best part about Diana in Power Book II: Ghost Season 2 has been her finding her voice and doing things for herself. I'm not even sure Monet likes her husband, so having him back under the same roof and the inevitable power struggle that would create is precisely the kind of drama you want in Power land. I would very much like to know what she did to hurt his feelings this badly because the man wants her head on a stick, and he barely has any evidence against her. Whitman literally hates Carrie so much it's almost comical. His relationship with Carrie is coming back to haunt him in a big way now, and you can't blame him for wanting to distance himself from her when Whitman starts pressing him. He just plays basketball and tries to have a good time, oblivious to what's going on around him. Zeke is in such a bad spot, and so much of it isn't even his fault. In her line of business, you're only as good as the people around you, and you have to trust those people because your life depends on it.īut it's not lost on me that for as much as Monet craves loyalty and honesty, she's kept Zeke sheltered to the point that he messed things up for himself in the worst possible way. Monet doesn't deal well with deceit, nor should she. It's going to make for an exciting confrontation when Monet realizes that her old love, who's hellbent on weaseling his way back into her heart, is keeping things from her. To this point, Monet doesn't even know Mecca is their connection, nor does she know he and Cane are new besties. It's clear why Tariq and Cane don't get along because they're very much the same damn person in many ways. Sure, he finds a way to get himself out of nearly every predicament he's ever found himself in, but why did he find himself in that position in the first place? Tariq's problem is always going to be his impulsivity and decision-making skills. The key here will be how long it takes Tariq to catch on to what's happening. Someone like Cane taking an interest in him does big things for an ego like that. He's an intelligent guy, but he's also impressionable. It's high time Brayden got a good storyline and one that thrusts him further into the main plots and allows him to be more than comic relief and Tariq's sidekick.
And to be honest, Tariq has so many other things pulling him away that everything crashes and burns without Brayden there. Maybe Tariq is in charge, but things don't work without them working together. Mecca was spot-on in his assessment of using Brayden to get to Tariq because Tariq has given him a lot of power within their operation. Brayden has always been more loyal to Tariq than the other way around, and that's why this new plan by Cane to pretty much wedge himself in the middle of the duo has so much potential.