‘Raising Kanan’ Showrunner Sascha Penn Talks About Season 3’s New Villain, Keeping The Momentum Going & More
Power Book III: Raising Kanan is back, and spinoff’s showrunner and creator Sascha Penn gives us the details on this season’s new villain, keeping the momentum going, and why this season is all about family.
In season 3 of Raising Kanan, the lines have been drawn, and Sascha Penn wants viewers to pick a side: Team Raq (Patina Miller) or Team Kanan (MeKai Curtis).
Ahead of the season three premiere, CassiusLife once again spoke with Penn about his spinoff that follows the early life of Kanan Stark before he became the boogeyman that haunts Ghost and Tommy in the original Power series.
Season three picks right up after the Italian mafia takes down the Thomas family, but thanks to some help from an unlikely ally and sheer luck, everyone lives to see another day, but at what cost?
How Does Sascha Penn Keep Raising The Stakes In Raising Kanan?
Source: Starz / Power Book III: Raising Kanan
We asked Penn how challenging it is to keep viewers hooked on the show and keep the momentum going that keeps viewers tuning in faithfully.
Our show is set in Southside Jamaica, Queens. It’s a very different world than the world of power and truth.
He continues, “What we can do is we can have a really complicated relationship between Raq and Kanan and see how that evolves and see how that deteriorates and see where they betray each other and where they have each other’s backs. That’s something that I think resonates with everybody because we all have families, and we all have complicated relationships with our families. So that, again, just feels very organic and real. And I think we’ve always tried to make sure that Raising Kanan feels pretty grounded in a way that maybe some of the other series, they’re a little bit… And this is by no means a criticism. It works incredibly well. Those shows are maybe a little bit more hyperreal. They exist. Our show is set in Southside Jamaica, Queens. It’s a very different world than the world of power and truth.”
The Inspiration Behind Season Three’s New Villain
Source: Starz / Power Book III: Raising Kanan
All of the Power series are never short on villains, which continues to be the case with Raising Kanan. Unique (Joey BADA$$) has been the main villain for the past two seasons, but now his brother, Ronnie (Grantham Cole), is here.
We asked Penn if there was any inspiration behind season three’s scary new villain.
It gets real scary, real fast.
Sacha Penn Says Season Three Is All About Family
Source: Starz / Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Each season, there always seems to be a theme; in season two, music played an important role for most of the characters, mainly Jukebox (Hailey Kilgore), Uncle Lou (Malcolm Mayes), and Famous (Antonio Ortiz).
For season three, Penn says family is the one word to describe the show’s third season best.
…all of our families are so complicated and layered, and the Thomas family is no different.
He continues, “I think a lot of season three is about rebuilding and reconstituting the family and the notion of family and what that looks like and whether that’s even possible, by the way. As I said earlier, all of our families are so complicated and layered, and the Thomas family is no different. And I think coming out of season two, you really find a lot of these characters going through existential crises where they’re trying to understand who they are, both individually and within the context of the whole meaning, the family. So I think that’s really a big part of season three.”
The post ‘Raising Kanan’ Showrunner Sascha Penn Talks About Season 3’s New Villain, Keeping The Momentum Going & More appeared first on Black America Web.
