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[This story contains major spoilers from the entire first season of Nemesis.]
Courtney Kemp has earned her place as one of the most powerful TV creatives. She launched her first series in 2014 with crime drama Power with no established stars on Starz, which boasted a other originals. Power turned into an addictive hit, and the record-breaking success eventually built to the point that Power signed off in 2020 as premium cable’s top-rated scripted series. But the Power Universe was just beginning. Three spinoffs have already hit the airwaves, and highly anticipated prequels and sequels are on the way. Four years after she left running the day-to-day of Power Book II: Ghost, Kemp is now back with her first Netflix series — and her un-replicated winning recipe.
“I feel like what I do is a little bit comparable to Bruno Mars, in that there is never going to be another Bruno Mars,” Kemp tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t think people understand why Power works. They saw it from the outside and went, ‘Oh, that’s a drug show.’ But it’s not really a drug show. It’s a Shakespearean drama about morality, and everybody’s in modern times; they’re saying the N-word a lot. I’m glad nobody has figured out my formula. If someone were to come along and be like, ‘I’m the new Bruno Mars,’ they would never be the new Bruno Mars. Whether you like him or not, you gotta respect the game. The man knows what he’s doing, and he can be whatever he wants to be at any given time. And that’s what I’m doing.”
